1.   Among the ideas, transit officials said, are lengthening some bus stops so that more buses can fit on crowded routes.

2.   And the marked tendency of some transit officials to shrug off service cuts as marginal, and riders who complain as whiners, is enough to make him apoplectic.

3.   And the impressions were largely confirmed by interviews with dozens of passengers, transit officials and the transit workers who remove graffiti.

4.   Another possibility, transit officials said, might be to have a period during which people would ride free.

5.   As long as there were people on the tracks, transit officials say, they could not restore power and risk electrocuting passengers.

6.   Aside from a loss of air pressure, a number of factors can worsen the performance of the emergency brakes, transit officials and independent experts said.

7.   As part of that campaign, transit officials changed the way on-time statistics are collected.

8.   At the outset, transit officials drew up a master plan to bring the system into good working order.

9.   Ballard will deliver three buses to Vancouver, British Columbia transit officials in the fall, he said.

10.   A lawyer for the MTA suggested a system of discount tickets, but transit officials conceded that this would be a cumbersome and inexact way or reimbursing riders.