British companies bought exclusive rights to establish banks, print currency, explore for minerals, run transit lines and even grow tobacco.
It runs transit centres where children who have been released are demobilised, put back in school, given psychological help and vocational training, and reunited with their families or resettled with foster carers.
In Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester Counties, the jobs are comparable: The legislators pass myriad laws and oversee bureaucracies with annual budgets exceeding $1 billion each that — among other things — assist the poor, run transit systems, provide health services and fight crime.
In Westchester, Nassau and Suffolk, the jobs are comparable: The legislators pass myriad laws and oversee bureaucracies with annual budgets exceeding $1 billion each that — among other things — assist the poor, run transit systems, provide health services and fight crime.
Bus transit is often promoted as a green form of transportation, but surprisingly little research has been done on how to run transit systems in a green manner.
Before trains can start running again, transit workers must manually inspect hundreds of miles of track, pumping out water and checking on thousands of individual signals.
"When you're 50, you're still active," said Tom Prendergast, a former L.I.R.R. president who is now running a transit system in Canada.
He calls running the transit agency, an appointment that came through Gov. Mario M. Cuomo, "a consolation prize" after losing the Boston mayoral election.
