The 33-year-old is a three-year veteran of the force, a transit police spokesman said Friday.
The firefight produced at least one casualty: A transit police officer, Richard Donahue, was wounded in the groin.
This was because they saw the black-drop effect in a transit of Mercury, a planet that has no atmosphere.
During such a transit, the observed brightness of the star drops slightly because the planet blocks a part of the starlight.
If there is sodium in the atmosphere, then there will be a little extra blockage of that colour during a transit.
Officers then saw that a transit police officer who arrived after the first five was shot in the groin during the firefight.
In Europe, notes a Detroit executive, their equivalent might drive a Transit van, but would not use that to take a partner to dinner.
For the United States, Central America is a near neighbour, a source of migrants, a transit corridor for drugs and a not insignificant trading partner.
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Central America is increasingly a transit route for Mexican drug gangs.
Coram's Fields was part of an 18th-century foundling hospital, while Tooting Bec Common was reputedly a transit camp for soldiers heading off to the Napoleonic Wars.
The NATO vehicles then turned around and drove back along a transit road through government territory into the Serb suburbs, followed by several dozen empty trucks.
She praises it for offering a transit point for Soviet Jews when other countries held back for fear of attracting the unwelcome attention of pro-Palestinian groups.
This makes sense, given that Apple is supplying developers with a transit API, but we can't imagine that homegrown public transit options aren't already in the works.
It is also well placed to be a transit and logistics hub for shipping Russian oil and gas onward to Asia and Asian-made goods deeper into Russia.
Users will be guided to a transit stop by foot and be able to look up detailed information on what line to take and where to get off.
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Union leaders hinted that workers might be encouraged to follow those rules in the coming weeks but haven't adopted any specific plans of action, a transit union official said.
Johannesburg resident Masego Maponyane said the city's new lease of life meant that visitors were no longer treating it as simply a transit point on the way to other destinations.
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Since the 1980s, when Rio became a transit point for cocaine heading to Europe, the Brazilian state has given over the monopoly of violence in these areas to drug gangs and militias.
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Mr Bainimarama blames his no-show on New Zealand's refusal to give him more than a transit visa to pass through Auckland airport (enforcing a travel ban imposed after the coup in December 2006).
Turkey is a transit country for energy issues.
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Dave Lobycz, a transit construction worker and New Jersey hunter, came to Mr. Clark's shop last week to order a full-size mount of the 180-pound female bear he killed the day before with a shotgun.
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Mr. Lhota's response reflects an uncomfortable reality of running a transit system serving 8.5 million riders a day: Customers get hit by trains almost three days a week, and there are few easy preventive measures.
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Two years ago, in advance of a transit strike in New York City, Dell built up stores of replacement parts, rented Midtown hotel rooms and relied on helicopters and bike messengers to get parts to customers.
This useful term was introduced in the 1970s by the Dutch artist Armando, who grew up near Kamp Amersfoort, used during the Second World War as a transit camp for prisoners being sent off to concentration camps.
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Black New Yorkers cheer all of this, perhaps most notably in 2005 when three-quarters of blacks supported a transit union that called an illegal walkout while demanding a 6% annual pay raise on top of its already bulging pay envelope.
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However, Belarus has been able to overcome some of these economic difficulties due to its key location as a transit route for the raw material transported between Russia and other former Soviet Republics to Western Europe, and to large Russian subsidies.
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It added that Lithuania had been identified by the police as a source location for trafficked victims in the UK, while Italy is both a destination country for trafficking victims and a transit country for co-ordination and onward trafficking of victims from Eastern Europe and Africa.
Jodie Marcyniuk, a transit priority engineer at Calgary Transit, notes that each of its transmitter-equipped buses saves 2, 000 gallons of fuel and nearly 50, 000 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per year compared with buses on regular routes. (The calculations do not net out the extra gallons idled away by drivers on the cross streets.) "It works out beautifully, " says Marcyniuk.
Teasingly, there is a public transit icon when you try to search for directions, but it quickly whisks you away to a list of transit routing apps you can download in the app store, most only for one transit system or another.
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