NJ Governor Chris Christie announced earlier today that the third largest transit system in the country has partnered with Google to bring their wireless Wallet payment system to bus routes and rail lines in the Northeast.
To that end, the agency, the third largest public transit agency in the nation, is developing a free subscription service to notify its customers of delays, accidents, disruptions and other mishaps on train and bus routes.
It's just that the nation's second-largest transit system, cobbled together from a web of failing rail and bus companies in the late 1970's, lacks a coherent look or panache, a certain je ne sais quoi.
The Federal Transit Authority's rural transit funds and the Maine Department of Transportation cover the second largest portion, followed by Maine-based outdoor gear seller LL Bean, which has sponsored the bus system with $4m over the years.
Brazil, considered as both a destination and transit area for cocaine and marijuana, is also the second largest country outside of the US for cocaine consumption (United States Department of State Bureau for International Narcotics & Law Enforcement Affair International Narcotics Control Strategyy Report 2013).
The beach town experience meets urban environment when you travel on the newly completed rapid transit line, ATI (Alternativa de Transport Integrado), which runs 15 miles from San Juan to Bayamón, Puerto Rico's second largest city.
"L.A. has the single largest transit investment coming in the country right now," she said.
Ukraine is, after all, the world's largest transit country for gas supplies.
But these are not normal times for New Jersey Transit, the only statewide transit agency in the nation and the third largest, behind only New York's and Chicago's.
Germany was responsible for the third largest troop contingent in the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan, and its forces oversaw the vital transit hub at Mazar-e Sharif. Mazar-e Sharif
