So while his job is short on glamour, and his 3,000 police officers and traffic agents normally toil in obscurity -- riding herd on the daily stampede of cars, trucks, buses, bicycles and motorcycles streaming into and around the city -- Chief McShane and his force's 15 minutes of fame will surely come (and perhaps be rather more extended) if a transit strike hits on Monday.
A customer needing to speed up a shipment already in transit can hit an icon on the Web site and start an Internet chat with a sales rep, who can immediately upgrade a shipment's priority for 10% to 15% more.
IN our embarrassed hearts of darkness, some of us were hoping for some kind of disaster to hit last week, something like -- you guessed it -- a transit strike.
Grievances include the loss of tax privileges in the 1990s that hit transit trading, and Tanzania's failure to join the Organisation of Islamic Co-operation, a club of Muslim countries that locals hoped would channel aid to Zanzibar.Islamist hotheads used to support Tanzania's main opposition party, the Civic United Front (CUF).
Last fall, Sacramento's regional transit agency was hit with a ransomware attack demanding it pay a single bitcoin, then worth about $8,000, to get control of its website back.
Commuters scrambled Tuesday to find alternate ways to travel as transit workers in Philadelphia hit the picket lines after the city's main transit agency and a union representing about 4,700 workers failed to reach a contract agreement.
The engineer applied the brakes but could not avoid hitting her, transit officials said.
The slump comes at an inopportune time for transit agencies, which have been hit hard by shrinking tax revenues and, in some cases, decreasing ridership.
Almost everybody in the New York region will take some kind of a hit from the transit fare increases, toll increases and service cuts approved on Wednesday by the board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
What many have not seen first hand are the myriad ways that New York's transit system took a serious hit.
