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...phased rapid transit system could connect institutional and commercial centers in an arc around greater Boston’s urban core, local pundits from the public, private and non-profit sectors said Monday at a town hall meeting at the Kennedy School of Government...
...could have flown back and forth from New York to Washington not once, but twice, I got a bit peeved. Recently, I was on my way to Wilmington, Delaware to meet my parents. I had painstakingly concocted a route by which I could totally bypass Amtrak: New Jersey Transit to Trenton, then switch to the local SEPTA train, which would take me to Philadelphia and eventually Wilmington - all for the low, low price of $16. For the same ride (minus, of course, the inconvenience of transferring) on Amtrak's unreserved Northeast Direct line...
...sprawling campus does raise a unique problem for Stanford undergraduates—transportation. Bikes are common among the undergraduates as car use is restricted to sophomores and above. Those who do not have cars rely on the public transit system, which some say needs improvement...
JOHN ROWLAND (R., CONN.) The millions spent on his PSAs helped prompt a state law banning such ads by candidates within five months of an election. His recent ubiquitous mass-transit campaign ("Your Ride's Here") irked critics who recall that in his early years in office Rowland advocated cutbacks in rail services...
Pakistani extremist groups such as Jaish-e-Muhammad shared terrorist camps near the Afghan towns of Khost and Kandahar with al-Qaeda, according to Western diplomats and foreign intelligence officials in Islamabad. The Pakistanis provided al-Qaeda agents a network of safe houses in Pakistan to facilitate their transit in and out of Afghanistan. They also vetted new recruits for al-Qaeda and laundered terrorist funds through a global network of illegal money changers. It was no surprise to foreign spooks that the ISI let the Egyptian-Canadian Khadr escape from Peshawar. He knew too much, they say, about...