81.   Sandra Bullock plays Lucy Moderatz, a ticket-seller for the Chicago transit system.

82.   She was in Washington to lobby for continuation of a federal program that provides start-up money for new transit systems.

83.   Similar policies have been used on transit systems in Washington and San Francisco, Wilson said.

84.   She said cities with effective mass transit systems tend to have lower traffic fatality rates.

85.   States with transit systems face other threats as well.

86.   That bill, which provides money for air traffic controllers, highways and mass transit systems, has been hung up in a House and Senate conference committee.

87.   That division, called MK Transit, has been hemorrhaging capital because it badly underbid on contracts with transit systems across the country in an effort to win business.

88.   That same year, Hong Kong-based Hopewell Holdings Ltd. won a concession to build a separate transit system.

89.   That could lead to integrating commuter rail, buses and possibly light rail into a coherent regional public transit system.

90.   The bill increases spending for highways but curbs subsidies for Amtrak and urban mass transit systems.