Mr. Prendergast began his career in 1975 at the Chicago Transit Authority, the Mr. Cuomo's office said, before moving to Washington and then to New York in 1982 as director of system safety for the New York City Transit Authority in 1982.
After work one morning last month, he was stranded halfway from home at the Rosa Parks Transit Center downtown by a one-day bus-driver strike.
Most people really didn't know what had happened, and you saw at each of the transit desks British Airlines to people about what they were going to have to do about their hand luggage, because they are transit passengers and they had tons of hand luggage.
Expect to hear a lot of it at the public hearings on the fare hikes, and at the newly formed group Transit Forward's news conference planned for Friday.
In December 2002 he visited South America for tourism and while in transit at the Caracas airport, waiting for a connecting flight, he was approached by two Iranians who asked him to provide information about himself.
The incident happened Saturday at the Nathan's Famous Hot Dogs at the Quincy subway station, the transit police said.
In the comparative study of the cost of mass transit, analysts at Mercer selected the most convenient and popular means of transportation between bus and subway in a given city and gauged the price based upon a ride in the city center for one adult, according to the Mercer analysis team.
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Unite said the plant closures could lead to the loss of up to 2, 000 jobs at Ford, with production of the Transit van moving to Turkey.
The council lifted the suspension - initially imposed until safer facilities for animals in transit could be built at the port - on legal advice after the High Court overturned the ban pending a judicial review.
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Ford acquired its stake in 1995 when it began producing the Ford Transit at JMC.
Ford plans to halve production of the Transit van at the site over the next three years.
The firefight produced at least one casualty: A transit police officer, Richard Donahue, was wounded in the groin.
Ford said it was planning to continue making the Transit panel van at the Swaythling plant until 2011.
Turns out that even with ticket prices kept at levels that may please the adoring transit enthusiasts from abroad, the fares are too expensive to satisfy enough Chinese patrons.
In February the Juba government cut off the oil in protest at high transit fees, depriving both countries of revenue they desperately need and helping to cause a global oil-price spike.
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But astronomers have figured out a clever way for Hubble to "observe" the effects of the transit on the light from the sun: by looking at the moon.
The report looked at a number of schemes in western England: Three rapid transit schemes in the Bristol area, Bath Transportation Package, Weston Package, the Greater Bristol Metro and the new M49 junction.
ES-1b, and when they pooled their results they found that there was a peculiar rippling pattern of brightening and dimming lasting about 40 minutes at the beginning and the end of each transit.
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Fast-growing cities with sprawl problems, like Las Vegas, Phoenix and Denver, "are completely enamored of the density that intelligent bus transit enables, " says Robert Puentes, a fellow at the Brookings Institution.
"Certainly, using the automated systems does reduce the number of staff we need, " says Katsuya Hagane, the manager in charge of operations at New Transit Yurikamome.
If you look specifically at Alpine transit, it is clear that the Swiss for example are putting in an enormous amount of money to improve the rail links.
More specifically, the transit-tax vote hints at a newfound sense of pragmatism and subtlety that, critics have long suggested, tea party Americans have failed to exhibit on issues like the debt ceiling.
The first of the new cars, manufactured by Bombardier Transit Corp. in upstate Plattsburgh, will arrive for testing at the end of 2014, MTA officials said, and will start to move into regular service the following year.
The collision, involving a Ford Transit Tipper van and a Renault Kangoo, happened at 16:00 GMT on Saturday on the B1077 at Shelfanger.
Police said that a cash-in-transit vehicle was in the forecourt at the time.
Ian Roxburgh, professor of astronomy at Queen Mary, University of London, said the transit method still favoured the detection of big planets, because they blocked out more light from the parent star.
"The transit industry must continue to be at the forefront of creating green jobs and establishing globally competitive technologies right here at home in the United States, " said FTA Administrator Peter Rogoff.
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Meanwhile, Israel resumed some fuel shipments to Gaza on Wednesday, a week after Palestinian militants shot and killed two Israeli civilian workers at the Nahal Oz fuel terminal -- the only transit route for delivering fuel supplies to Gaza.
The irony will be car rental counters at the terminals because there are not adequate intra-city transit options.
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Negotiations involving the transit system's individual departments continued at the Sheraton Hotel in Midtown Monday and were slated to proceed on Tuesday.
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