[Wall Street Journal] The Metropolitan Transportation Authority chairman, Joseph J. Lhota, blasted a Republican-backed bill making its way through the House that would effectively strip the New York transit network of $1 billion, which could halt all major projects, like the Second Avenue subway, and lead to another fare increase.
After that, however, the United States announced that his American passport had been revoked, leaving him in a geopolitical limbo, stripped of any valid identification and unable to leave Sheremetyevo's transit zone.
Legislators hope a watered-down version of the transit bill will pass, but it is likely to be stripped of the provisions regulating taxis and microbuses.
GM is building hybrid versions of its Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra trucks, using a stripped down version of technology it currently runs in its Allison buses that you can see on transit routes in some dozen U.S. cities.
New York City Transit also collected more than 13,000 pounds of lead waste in 2000 from various sites, as steel structures where the paint had accumulated for decades were stripped and repainted with lead-free paint.
Last week, a U.S. House committee approved a measure that could strip another $25 billion in federal support from local transit agencies over the next five years.
The plan would, in short, strip back some of the advances to New York City's transit system in the past decade, and the formal announcement on Monday stirred a chorus of complaints from the city's politicians and transit advocates, who pointed fingers at Albany, City Hall and the authority's management.
Transit officials say they would save at least $11.6 million by disposing of cars at sea instead of stripping the material out and breaking up the remains for scrap.
Stripping detainees? . . .
