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...Yet there is a significant obstacle to using the technology in the densely populated New York metropolitan area, where it might otherwise be very welcome....
...The objective is to reduce traffic and air pollution in the city while delivering $1bn a year to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to upgrade the city’s subways and buses....
...The low-density, spread-out pattern of many US metropolitan areas undercuts the use of trains and buses. “For most Americans, there isn’t transit there to take....
...The Highland Park shooting was the 23rd mass shooting in the Chicago metropolitan area this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive. The previous 22 incidents left 13 people dead and 94 injured....
...The watery paint pooled in different areas, variegating the intensity of the colour where it settled. Then it dried, locking the painting into position....
...When she was younger, Turner tried for a job with London’s Metropolitan Police, but she didn’t get it....
...New York City’s main transport systems were pummeled by the storm, with floods forcing the subway to grind to a halt overnight, stranding passengers underground, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority...
...The Regional Transportation Authority, which allocates funds to Chicago-area transit agencies, examined six Covid-19 recovery scenarios and found that commuting by transit decreased in each one....
...People living in areas hit hardest by the pandemic are being vaccinated at a slower rate than the rest of the US population, according to a Financial Times analysis of data from five major metropolitan areas...
...Other readables I wrote my FT column this week on the birth of a new Washington Consensus, one more sympathetic to state action than the old one....
...Syrian authorities were provided an assurance that the woman was neither a spy nor a threat....
...Suozzi also points out that high real estate taxes and the higher cost of living in areas like the New York metropolitan area and California push many people who are middle class in terms of their buying...
...In London, where Everard lived, the Metropolitan police force is facing its MeToo moment....
...The urgency of that aid has increased in recent weeks as coronavirus cases have risen sharply and some local authorities have started to tighten health restrictions....
...Earlier this year the Metropolitan Transportation Authority decided to shut down its famed 24-hour service between the hours of 1am and 5am in order to disinfect cars....
...Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department, which has 3,800 officers in the capital and has deployed throughout the city, reports to mayor Muriel Bowser....
...The Metropolitan Police Department, which reports to Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser who has increased police funding, did not respond to allegations that police removed masks from protesters....
...Cities and other local authorities determine budgets, rules of conduct, and accountability for their departments....
...In the event of a V-shaped economic recovery, companies could then restock quickly, but in the meantime they would not have to pay full-price warehouse fees, which have climbed because of labour shortages...
...Deborah Birx, the co-ordinator of the White House coronavirus task force, said last week that anybody leaving the New York metropolitan area should self-quarantine for 14 days....
...Will Washington pick up the bill?...
...Center and Metropolitan Detention Center....
...A federal government public health official who was not authorised to speak on the record said: “It’s a pandemic if you can no longer keep it to a specific geographic area.”...
...Protesters, learning from Hong Kong, began staging flash demonstrations on a daily basis, organised at short notice to circumvent police blockades or Bangkok transit shutdowns....
...Japan also recently offered technical assistance for the development of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority, the special economic zone that covers the former Hanjin shipyard....
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