Sentence examples for transit rose from inspiring English sources
By another measure, in East Flatbush, one of the neighborhoods in Mr. Parker's district, the percentage of workers who commute by transit rose to 68percentt in 2007, from 62percentt in 2000, according to a recent report by the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy at New York University.
But Bostonians got what they paid for (even if the project sprung leaks, took 20 years and won't be paid off until 2038), as the Big Dig increased road capacity at the seventh-best mark in the country and the number of Bostonians using public transit rose to 11.2% from 9% in 2000, the fourth-biggest jump in the nation.
This is the sort of transit-friendly climate "that the Rose Smart Growth Investment Fund is focused on," said Dara Kovel, regional director for the Jonathan Rose Companies, a network of green-oriented development firms.
The show opened on Nov. 6 at Bread and Roses, where hospital workers, transit workers and hundreds of others had the privilege of seeing Marvin's wonderful work.
Rose Sheridan, a vice president at the American Public Transportation Association, said that transit ridership grew by rates ranging from 3.42 to 6.52percentt in each of the first three quarters of 2008, but growth slowed to only 1.68percentt in the fourth quarter.
The Rose does impressively well on this score, its 2.3-acre site situated in an older, transit-accessible neighborhood just south of downtown Minneapolis.
See elevated transit line; mass transit; subway.
transit directions are wonky".
He championed mass transit.
