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.

ENGADGET: iOS 6 review Mobile

Despite New York City virtually revolving around its mass transit system, local subway riders haven't had a way to check the next arrival in real-time, even though some smaller cities already take live transit details for granted.

ENGADGET: MTA app for iPhone offers New Yorkers real-time subway arrivals, a small dose of relief

The partial LIRR drinking ban complicates an already patchwork system of rules about when and where transit passengers in the region can and can't imbibe.

WSJ: End of the Line for Midnight Drinkers

While solar energy isn't viable in rainy Seattle, Microsoft employees also enjoy free access to mass transit and company-subsidized hybrid cars.

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Before you go getting any bad ideas, know that Benninger and Sobell haven't released the app for public use, and warned both transit systems in late 2011 (though neither region has fixed the exploit, the duo claim).

ENGADGET: Security researchers identify transit system exploit in San Fran and New Jersey, create app to prove it

Mr. Lewis didn't think Mr. Reid's piece, "Mass Transit, " swung in any jazz sense.

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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.

WSJ: Transit Workers Seek Wage Hikes

You can't get to work or go buy groceries like you used to because of cuts in the county transit system.

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Being the mass transit junkies that we are, we don't spend a lot of time in cars, flying or otherwise, but we know many of you hit the highways each day, so we're presenting to you Sony's new Bluetooth-enabled head unit.

ENGADGET: Sony's MEX-BT5000 car stereo with Bluetooth