Word: subways
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...There were no strangers in town anymore, only sudden friends, sharing names, news and phones. Lines formed, at least 20 people long, at all pay phones, because cell phones were not working. Should we go to work? Is the subway safe? "Let's all have a good look at each other," a passenger said to the others in her car. "We may be our last memory." The passengers stranded at La Guardia Airport asked one another where exactly they were supposed to go and how they were to get there. Bridges, tunnels and ferries to Manhattan were not running. Strangers...
...Security increased at border points. Gov. George Pataki canceled his New York City events. NEW YORK CITY: Elections called off. Airports closed. Trading on Wall Street suspended. United Nations building evacuated. Offices throughout Manhattan closed. Children in Manhattan kept in schools because their parents could not get to them. Subway lines shut down. Cellular phone service crippled. Regular phone service congested. Evacuations from Wall Street to the United Nations. Lower Manhattan closed to all but emergency vehicles. Bridges and tunnels into Manhattan closed. Rockefeller Center property managers urged tenants to go home...
...Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) began a one-year pilot program this weekend that will offer late-night bus service on Friday and Saturday evenings. The “Night Owl” program creates 10 new bus routes that stop at the same stations that the subway system does during regular hours. Buses will depart from downtown Boston about every half hour beginning at 1 a.m. and ending at 2:30 a.m. Other feeder bus routes along the main transit corridors will have their hours similarly extended...
...commonly repeated complaint among students is that the T closes too early, forcing people who go into the city during weekends to either cut their fun short to catch the last subway train or to cram into an expensive taxi...
...country's first convenience store, on South Street in Salt Lake City. David certainly learned frugality: of the $3,000 his parents sent him during his year on a Mormon mission in Brazil, he saved $1,300. He has retained that trait. He gets around New York City by subway...