Sentence examples for riding the system from inspiring English sources

The novelist Paul Theroux, for instance, once spent a week riding the system from end to end, and imparted his most important survival technique, given to him by a friend: "You have to look as if you're the one with the meat cleaver".

(How could you go to so much trouble to arrive in New York City, as the throngs at Columbia and Barnard had, and not ride the system?) As if Miriam's life-exuberance pointed back toward Rose's punitive ferocity, just the way the I.R.T. screamed in the direction of home.

The overnight shutdowns, which will affect most major subway lines once every three months, amount to a radical new approach for the authority, which typically schedules its maintenance work over an extended string of weekends, when fewer people ride the system.

"Near rail stations and where people walk at night we over-ride the system and keep the lights on".

Quick and inexpensive to ride, the system serves 2.1 million passengers each day.

All Metrorail riders, regardless of payment method, are paying more to ride the system, approved earlier this year as part of the transit agency's new budget.

Many passengers who ride the system also take various forms of road-based public transport, such as buses, to and from a station to reach their intended destination.

"There's nothing more fun in the world than riding the ferry system," said Jim Scholz, past president of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce.

They did so by latching on to the strong southwesterly winds in advance of the frontal passage off New York City and riding the single system for all it was worth.

This shot of Team USA riding the London train system is almost perfect.

If you'd like to stay a little farther west, riding the Vietnamese rail system between Hanoi and Hong Kong could be a great way to see several cities in southern China.