Sentence examples for transit spent from inspiring English sources

Transit spent millions to connect the Montclair Boonton line to Penn Station, no trains run on weekends because local people say they would be too noisy.

In 1999 New York City Transit spent $98 million on settlements and judgments involving injury claims, he said, up from $87 million in 1998.

For every passenger who paid the $6 one-way full fare, New Jersey Transit spent an additional $10 -- more than three times what the agency spends on northern and central New Jersey commuter rail lines.

According to the 2001 National Household Travel Survey, Americans who use mass transit spend a median of 19 min daily walking to and from transit (Besser and Dannenberg 2005).

"It's education spending, not transit spending.

The trims — coupled with cuts to transit spending — were denounced by transportation advocates.

Revenues from excise taxes, primarily those on petrol and diesel, are the main source of funding for federal highway and transit spending.

The White House budget released in the spring proposed eliminating new federal grants for transit construction, and the GOP party platform urged phasing out all federal transit spending.

That account is currently in surplus, the White House said, and the transfer "would not harm transit spending and would not increase the deficit".

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

The Senate vote came just hours after the Bush administration issued its budget for 2005, which called for $256 billion in highway and transit spending.