Driving, cycling, and walking directions are tough enough, but transit routing with transfers built in is available from very few parties — Google, Nokia, Hopstop, and Lumatic.
"With all that's going on, our lives have gotten tougher," said a transit officer near an entrance to the City Hall stop on the N and the R subway lines.
"Indirectly, it's saying to Brooklyn transit riders, 'Hey, tough it out,' " Mr. Markowitz said.
German leader Angela Merkel stopped the collapse of her government Monday, but at the cost of agreeing to tough new immigration measures — including "transit centers" for migrants created on the country's border with Austria.
These are tough times for the city's transit workers, as the system reels in subway and bus lines and lays off employees.
Most important, lawmakers should heed calls from the panel and Gov. Eliot Spitzer and guarantee that all of the revenues raised will be spent on mass transit, no matter how tough times get.
And threatening to end the mobility tax tells voters that racking up political points matters more than making the tough choices necessary to save mass transit.
Transit agencies nationwide are having tough times.
Mr. Donovan said that area roads and mass transit experienced similar declines during other tough economic times, like the aftermath of the 1987 stock market crash and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Not incidentally, this produce will taste better and be more nutritionally rich, Lightfoot says, because BrightFarms won't be growing only lettuce and tomatoes that are hardy enough (read: tough and tasteless) to survive for days in transit.
