Ships can't be operated 365 days a year, he notes, because of the need for routine maintenance, transit times, and the time needed to load and unload research equipment for each cruise.
A suggested strategy for identification is a routine postoperative esophageal transit study.
The plans, which appeared in documents on the authority's Web site over the weekend, are described by transit officials as routine adjustments to account for trends in ridership, which has sagged in the weak economy.
In addition, 85 health posts were set up for routine immunization, and another 32 transit points were built to track children who were missed in the campaigns.
The Navy said in a statement the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain collided with the merchant vessel Alnic MC while "the ship was transiting to a routine port visit in Singapore".
A transit worker on a routine inspection shortly before 3 a.m. yesterday found a plastic bag containing two human legs and an arm beside the tracks of the southbound A train in Bedford-Stuyvesant, the police said.
If you watched Jeff Ross, for example, a web of other comics would pop up based on routines with similar topics (like mass transit), style (like dark humor) or other relationships (both like marshmallows).
But the schedule change seems to have upset the fragile machinery of the authority, befuddling employees, board members and transit advocates accustomed to a routine that had not changed "since the Pleistocene era," the agency's chief spokesman, Adam Lisberg, said.
Paul J. Fleuranges, a spokesman, released a statement from the New York City Transit president, Lawrence G. Reuter, announcing the suspension of routine maintenance until midday today, but he declined to comment on the union's criticism.
They may use the transit system as part of their daily routine activities (Felson and Cohen, 1980), or be attracted to a particular setting because of the opportunities that it offers for theft (Brantingham and Brantingham, 1995).
As an offender traverses a transit system, particularly in areas adjacent to their daily routines and paths (termed routine activities by Felson and Cohen, 1980), they can increase their awareness of potential crime opportunities.
