Because of the curvature on the platforms, gap fillers are used to bridge the gap between train and platform, however the gap fillers are not suitable for wheelchair passengers, making the shuttle platforms virtually inaccessible to wheelchairs, passengers who need service to Grand Central must use the IRT Flushing Line platforms.

* Higher acceleration rate — Because of the energy efficiency, higher power-to-weight ratio and higher adhesive-weight-to-total-weight ratio values, MUs generally have higher acceleration ability than locomotive-type trains and are favored in urban trains and subway ( metro ) systems for frequent start / stop routines.

Because it uses advanced propulsion technology and standard track gauge ( unlike the rest of Toronto's system ), it can not interchange with Toronto's subway or streetcar lines.

Because of a sewer at the northern end and the District Railway to the south it was decided to build the subway for single-deck trams only.

Because of this he can survive moments of extreme duress, and demonstrated this ability on numerous occasions ; once by falling 4000 feet, crashing through the concrete into a subway tunnel and subsequently being hit by an oncoming train, surviving without incident (" Evil Sits Down for a Moment ," November 4, 1995 ).

Because of this, the SIR's farebox recovery ratio in 2001 was 0. 16 — that is, for every dollar of expense, 16 cents was recovered in fares, the lowest ratio of MTA agencies ( part of the reason the MTA wishes to merge the SIR with the subway proper is to simplify the accounting and subsidization of what is essentially a single line ).

Because most of the electrification infrastructure was destroyed in the war, the only variances to this standard with significant traffic are a few of the older subway lines in Tokyo and Osaka.

Because of the power failure, LaGuardia and Kennedy airports were closed down for about eight hours, automobile tunnels were closed because of lack of ventilation, and 4, 000 people had to be evacuated from the subway system.

Because the subway tunnel was tightly constrained to follow Massachusetts Avenue, which makes a sharp, near-right-angle turn at Harvard Square, all Red Line trains must negotiate the curve at slow speed, accompanied by loud squeals from the wheels and rails.

Because of the awkward arrangement of King William Street station, the extension was not to be connected directly to the existing running tunnels but was to be linked via a pedestrian subway through which passengers could make interchanges between the separate lines.

Because the early subway systems competed with each other, they tended to cover the same areas of the city, leading to much overlapping service.

Because of his need for money, after 1933 Roth began distributing strictly banned pornography, receiving illustrated books and pamphlets and sometimes leaving them for trusted customers in subway lockers.

Because of their expensive price tag-each subway car cost more than $ 100, 000-the ten R11 cars are frequently referred to as the Million Dollar Train.

Because the west end of Track 6 is adjacent to the uptown local subway platform, this track has only enough space for four cars to meet the platform.

Because cyclists often ride near parked cars along the side of the road ( see door zone ) they are particularly vulnerable to this.

Because of Isis ' anti-technology and self-denying puritanical beliefs, she has to use a Sitting Board ( a hard board she can put over the comfortable seats in cars and other means of transportation in order to deprive herself of cushioning ).

Because most of the cars contained wood ( particularly high quality oak ), it seemed reasonable to name the city after that type of lumber.

Because of cars, trucks, tractors, and up

Because of this, the city of Wenatchee proper has only two entrances and exits which can be used by passenger cars ; the North Wenatchee Avenue Bridge ( North End Bridge ) to the north, and the Senator George Sellar Bridge ( South End Bridge ) to the south.

Because of the break-of-gauge at Brest, where the Russian broad gauge meets the European standard gauge, all passenger trains, coming from Poland, must have their bogies replaced here, to travel on across Belarus, and the freight must be transloaded from cars of one gauge to cars of another.

Because of this the citizens of Springfield must use their own cars as a means of safer public transport and earn money in an attempt to pay back Burns to get rid of the radioactive buses and return the town back to normal.

Because of the tourism there are many mountain railways and cable cars in the mountains.

Because of the need for motor oils with unique qualities, many modern cars for the European market will demand a specific OEM-only oil standard.

Because is any arbitrary positive price, it is shown that no cars will be sold at any positive price at all.

Because the steam engine had AAR couplers and the electric cars had Westinghouse H-2 MU couplers a special coupler was used to connect the engine and the cars.

Because freight and passengers had to change cars several times along the route and canals froze during the winter, it soon became apparent that the system was cumbersome and a better way was needed.

Because of the two levels being separate on most cars, there is a physical limitation on the conductor, as it is difficult for him to verify, collect payment and sell tickets to such a large concentration of passengers in one car on each level, owing to the sometimes short distance between stops.

Because of these often impractical or unprofitable leanings, many concept cars never get past scale models, or even drawings in computer design.

Because VW owned the rights to the Europa name in Germany, cars for sale in Germany were badged Europe rather than Europa.

Because of their aerodynamic design, modern racing cars create enough vacuum to lift a manhole cover off the ground.

Because Mercedes-Benz promotes a reputation for safety, they recalled and retrofitted 130, 000 A-Class cars with ESC.

Because they contain long stretches of smooth, well-engineered roads without general speed limits, German Autobahns are often used-officially and unofficially-by car manufacturers and other parties to test the performance of sports cars ( or other high performance vehicles ) in a setting where they can reach their full potential.

Because " Hot Pink " was considered a " girls color ", it was not used very much on Hot Wheels cars.

Because the tracks were unpowered, individual cars had to be towed along the street at night.

Because negative pressure dialysis gave better recovery of proteins, permitted detection of proteins concentrated from very dilute solutions and was a gentler procedure, it was used in all but the earliest experiments.

Because the range of possible values for K < sub > a </ sub > spans many orders of magnitude, a more manageable constant, pK < sub > a </ sub > is more frequently used, where pK < sub > a </ sub >

Because CCD imagers are linear, image processing may be used to subtract away the effects of light pollution, which has increased the popularity of astrophotography in urban areas.

Because and can be very similar numbers, the precision of the result can be much less than the inherent precision of the floating-point arithmetic used to perform the computation.

Because they often exhibit a combination of high strength and low weight, these alloys became widely used in many forms of industry, including the construction of modern aircraft.

Because of their biological significance, amino acids are important in nutrition and are commonly used in nutritional supplements, fertilizers, and food technology.

Because of its hardness and ability to resist acids, agate is used to make mortars and pestles to crush and mix chemicals.

Because of the high polish possible with agate it has been used for centuries for leather burnishing tools.

Because the technique has allegedly been used to improve breathing and stamina in general, advocates also claim that athletes, people with asthma, tuberculosis, and panic attacks have also found improvements.

Because the original designer had left the company another employee completely redesigned most of the system, ( adding a display snow remover circuit, true 80 / 64 column text mode support, ( with different size letters for TRS-80 and CP / M mode, so that in TRS-80 mode the full screen was also used, not just a 64x16 portion of the 80x25 screen ) with an improved font set ( adding " gray scale " version of the TRS-80 mozaik graphics and many special PETSCII like characters ), and a more flexible and reliable floppy disk controller and keyboard interface plus many other small improvements ), also an enclosure was developed for the main computer system, ( in the form of a 19-inch rack for the Eurocards ) and for two floppy disk drives and the power supply.

Because of its bright green color when polished, amazonite is sometimes cut and used as a gemstone, although it is easily fractured.

Because Athanasius ' canon is the closest canon of any of the Church Fathers to the canon used by Protestant churches today, many Protestants point to Athanasius as the father of the canon.

Because it is softer than most other metals in general use, brass is often used in situations where it is important that sparks not be struck, as in fittings and tools around explosive gases.

Because of traditionally close links with the U. S. Virgin Islands, the British Virgin Islands has used the US dollar as its currency since 1959.

Because of opposition, however, it did not become widely used until after World War II.

Because of the pen's reliance on gravity to coat the ball with ink, most ballpoint pens cannot be used to write upside down.

Because of this, the term B * algebra is rarely used in current terminology, and has been replaced by the ( overloading of ) the term ' C * algebra '.

Because of these problems, various standardized tests, often called " benchmarks " for this purpose — such as SPECint – have been developed to attempt to measure the real effective performance in commonly used applications.

Because the film specifically targeted Western audiences rather than the domestic audiences who were already used to Wuxia films, English subtitles were needed.

Because the international stratigraphic subdivision is not yet complete, many local subdivisions are still widely used.

Because his vision of personal and social perfections was framed as a revival of the ordered society of earlier times, Confucius is often considered a great proponent of conservatism, but a closer look at what he proposes often shows that he used ( and perhaps twisted ) past institutions and rites to push a new political agenda of his own: a revival of a unified royal state, whose rulers would succeed to power on the basis of their moral merits instead of lineage. These would be rulers devoted to their people, striving for personal and social perfection, and such a ruler would spread his own virtues to the people instead of imposing proper behavior with laws and rules.

Because Ω depends on the program encoding used, it is sometimes called Chaitin's construction instead of Chaitin's constant when not referring to any specific encoding.

Because of this, radiosity is a prime component of leading real-time rendering methods, and has been used from beginning-to-end to create a large number of well-known recent feature-length animated 3D-cartoon films.

Because each month follows one cycle of the moon, it is also used to determine the phases of the moon.

Because the sun's mean motion was used to calculate the jieqi, or seasonal markings, until 1645, this intercalary month was equally likely to occur after any month of the year.