51.   In the past, transit officials typically would let senior centers know when they would be in a neighborhood, and then hope that the word got around.

52.   In tactics akin to psychological warfare, a growing number of merchants, building owners and transit officials are switching on the classics to scatter loiterers, especially teens.

53.   Judge Batts also sentenced two other former transit union officials on Tuesday who had earlier pleaded guilty.

54.   Kassel met with senior transit officials last week to make the case for natural gas.

55.   Last December, transit officials completed a three-month study that found that fewer than half of the buses ran on time.

56.   Last year, transit officials chose to raise bus fares rather than cut what they said were already meager routes and service hours.

57.   Last year, transit officials blamed the spacing of signals, which are intended to keep trains a safe distance apart, for the accident.

58.   Meanwhile, transit officials are collaborating with a national weapons laboratory in developing defenses against a possible biological weapons attack on subway systems.

59.   Meanwhile, transit officials are trying to boost usage by raising commissions for merchants who sell the cards and lowering them for merchants who sell tokens.

60.   Metro Transit abandoned bus service for the first time in memory, transit officials said.