Proposals to raise Long Island Rail Road fares as much as one-third drew a virtually unanimous reaction from elected officials, transportation advocates and everyday commuters speaking out tonight at a hearing here.
Paved country roads fare a little better in winter.
Depending on how the roads fare over another week, the races -- open to sleds pulled by three, four, six or eight dogs or to skiers pulled by dogs -- may not go off, according to Kathy Murarik, the club president.
Volvo has little confidence that human drivers will be reliably kind and courteous to the first robot cars to hit the road: The carmaker plans to leave its first road-faring self-driving cars, a pilot group of 100 SUVs leased to users in London sometime in 2018, completely unmarked.
As for Abrams, he's lent his name to middle-of-the road, forgettable fare like "Person of Interest," "Undercovers" and "Six Degrees," using up almost all the geek cred he built up with "Alias," "Lost" and "Fringe" (and let's not forget, his involvement in the last two shows was limited, especially as his film career took off).
Municipal road improvements fared better.
Two members of her party, Francisco Veras and Dwayne Taylor, took the Long Island Rail Road and fared much better, skirting crowds and delays.
It often ends up somewhere in between, resorting to middle-of-the-road, commercial fare — Deepak Chopra, Suze Orman, nostalgic pop-music shows — to pull in money at fund-raising time.
Second, time dummies were included to indicate how the priority of road safety fared against competing risks for policy makers.
Commuters on the Long Island Rail Road face not just higher fares and fewer, dirtier trains.
