Waves of commuters flood by periodically.
By day, waves of commuters flow through here, piling on and off packed commuter trains.
Right to the end of her working life, she liked nothing better than prowling around a train station, this small unobtrusive figure with the Olympus OM1 navigating the waves of commuters, unseen and mooching.
Grand Central never became a prominent destination for large numbers of cross-country travelers, nor for the daily waves of commuters from the suburbs, that other Chicago terminals were.
Many in the first wave of nine-to-five commutorStaten Islando Staten Islast last Wednesday learned of the day's calamity only when they'd reached the waterfront.
Two hours later it's all suits and City workers on the 521 from Waterloo to London Bridge, ferrying wave upon wave of rail commuters from the busiest London terminus to their work places beyond.
A friend had told me that although Mr. Lazio wasn't a top honors student in our class, he showed a cheerful press-ahead quality, and I could see it now, as he worked wave after wave of rushing commuters.
Cars behind the truck immediately stopped, and, thanks to the D.O.T.'s cameras, we got to see the jam forming, travelling backward at eight miles an hour, a rolling wave of thwarted commuter desire which soon reached the Triborough Bridge.
Passengers surge from ticket barriers, escalators and passages into the main concourse, forming swirls and eddies as they wash in and out of waves of fellow commuters.
By Ben McGrath Many in the first wave of nine-to-five commuters returning to Staten Island last Wednesday learned of the day's calamity only when they'd reached the waterfront.
