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...high-court turnaround came in an obscure case from San Antonio, where the local transit authority challenged the U.S. Labor Department's right to apply federal wage and hour rules to overtime payments of its bus drivers and other employees. A U.S. district judge concluded that public transit was one of the core local functions protected under the 1976 Supreme Court ruling, and that the wages and hours of transit workers were therefore immune to federal regulation. In overturning that finding, Justice Blackmun wrote for the court majority that various federal tribunals had failed utterly to agree on which local...
...overly thorough in checking passengers hurrying through to catch the plane to Karachi, which was leaving at about the same time as the royal flight. Several youths in their 20s who had arrived on a connecting flight from Beirut evidently managed to bypass a security check in the transit lounge and went directly to the departure gate...
...first Red Line service to North Cambridge and Somerville, the Davis and Porter Square stations represent the latest accomplishments in the MBTA's $574 million northwest extension started six years ago. Two more mass transit stops and additional Red Line improvements will add the finishing touches to the 3.2 mile new subway to be completed by next fall, according to James F. O'Leary, MBTA general manager...
...time to stop putting money into highways and start putting it into mass transit." Dukakis told the throng of onlookers...
...Leary noted that 85 percent of the cost of the Red Line construction came from the Urban Mass Transit Administration...