Sentence examples for transit legislation from inspiring English sources

As Congress works to reauthorize highway and transit legislation, it must give metropolitan areas greater flexibility for financing transportation, rather than mandating that the vast bulk of the money can be used only for roads.

Barry, who is 53, has spent the past year creating 4,700 jobs, launching a $6bn£4.87bnbn) urban transit plan, developing legislation to encourage the building of affordable housing and supporting a bill to decriminalise possession of small amounts of cannabis.

We demand: -No private shuttles in public bus zones -No fare hikes and a free MUNI for all -Tech companies pay for their impact on housing and public infrastructure; Fund affordable housing initiatives, eviction defense, public transit improvements, and legislation to repeal the Ellis Act & Costa Hawkins! -A moratorium on all no-fault evictions.

Setting it up would require either agreements with the M.T.A. and Suffolk County Transit, or else state legislation creating a new East End transit authority.

ELECTRONIC TRANSIT-FARE CARD -- Legislation that would create a single electronic fare card for use on the region's mass transit systems cleared the Assembly Transportation Committee last week.

Congress has passed 11 stop-gap bills to cover the costs of highway and transit spending since the previous legislation expired.

His successor, career auto industry advocate Gerald Ford of Michigan, slashed legislation for public transit.

[City & State] A state senator hopes to pass legislation that would allow transit workers to carry electric stun guns in order to thwart vicious riders.

John Hart, a spokesman for Senator Coburn, said in an e-mail that the senator had received a promise that his language would be added to separate legislation to reauthorize highway and transit programs for two years.

The new Regional Transit Authority legislation calls for bus rapid transit along Woodward and connecting Ann Arbor to Detroit.

House leaders today amassed a coalition to pass legislation to create a regional transit authority for the Metro Detroit area.