The Metropolitan Transportation Authority will propose a substantial increase in transit fares and bridge and tunnel tolls next year to help close a widening budget gap of nearly $900 million, according to an official at the authority.
A State Supreme Court judge in Manhattan has denied a petition by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to set aside substantial raises for transit workers that were awarded by an arbitration panel in August.
"With projected ridership of over 36 million by 2018, ferry services are a substantial part of the transit mix in New York," said Roland Lewis of the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance, a pro-ferry non-governmental organisation.
And that, in turn, can only happen with sustained and substantial investment in public transit.
Japan and the European Union offer clues: Though both nations make excellent cars and have world-class highways, they have a sustained and substantial investment in public transit infrastructure.
The emergence of low-floor bus designs and related regulatory standards in the U.S. have resulted in substantial improvements in public transit accessibility.
In December 2011 BART adopted a new "Cell Service Interruption Policy" that only allows shutdowns of cell phone services within BART facilities "in the most extraordinary circumstances that threaten the safety of District passengers, employees and other members of public, the destruction of District property, or the substantial disruption of public transit service".
If accepted, petitioners' reasoning would allow Congress to regulate any crime as long as the nationwide, aggregated impact of that crime has substantial effects on employment, production, transit, or consumption.
To accept that reasoning, the chief justice said today, "would allow Congress to regulate any crime as long as the nationwide, aggregated impact of that crime has substantial effects on employment, production, transit or consumption".
This combination strongly suggesting that a lahar of substantial volume (100 m3/s) was in transit.
