The other strategy for lowering transit's need for higher taxes is to reduce the capital and operating costs of transit.

Often, expensive decisions are made to elevate or lower transit lines at some or many intersections.

Lower transit fares, shorten waits and reduce gridlock.

It also staged campaigns for lower transit rates and picketed the few white-only restaurants still operating in Canada.

This proposal will make rail freight more competitive, in particular by ensuring lower transit times and increasing rail's reliability and responsiveness to customer requirements.

So far, the mass gatherings have shown no evidence of any central leadership, although they've been tied to smaller activist organizations such as one asking for lower transit fares.

• Afghanistan Compact: lower transit times through Afghanistan by means of cooperative border management and other multilateral or bilateral trade and transit agreements.

In Sao Paulo, where demonstrators blocked Paulista Avenue, organizers said they would turn their demonstration into a party celebrating the lower transit fares.

Qantas says its fares on routes to Europe will drop an average of about $100 as a result of the alliance thanks to lower transit fees and landing fees.

They are hoping the crisis may prompt Argentina to relent and agree to charge the landlocked nation's traders lower transit fees -- a continuing point of dispute between the two countries.

Lower transit fares, shorten waits and reduce gridlock on our highways by dedicating a new Transportation Trust Fund to building reliable, affordable public transit and repairing municipal roads.

Because of the downturn in the economy, the agencies are trying to adjust to lower transit ridership, the loss of state funding and steep declines in revenue from county sales taxes that help pay for transportation projects.

BT on Friday reported a 5 per cent fall in turnover to £4.8bn for the three months to December 31, dragged down by lower transit revenues – low margin sales generated by carrying competitors’ traffic on its network.

A single group set the protests in motion with its demonstrations last week calling for lowered transit fares, the mass gatherings are showing no evidence of any central leadership, with people using social media to call for marches and rallies.

Revenues at the UK telecommunications company remained soft, down 6 per cent at £4.5bn year on year - or an underlying 3 per cent once lower transit revenues from carrying competitors" traffic on its network were excluded.

When the crabs or the oysters, for instance, change their cycle of activity to conform with the 'upper and lower transits of the moon, the only plausible explanation is that these creatures are obtaining information as to the moon's position through some subtle channels,' writes Brown.

To the Editor: There are too many cars in Manhattan for too few streets, but simply raising tolls and lowering transit fares won't solve the problem ("Economy Purrs in High Gear, but Traffic Idles in Gridlock," front page, Dec. 22).