However at the meeting Metro officials called random bag inspections a " success " and claimed that few riders had complained.

Stockport Metro swimmers have claimed 50 % of British swimming's medal haul.

* The explosion that claimed the most casualties occurred in a train cab at the Blumentritt station of the Metro Manila Light Rail Transit.

When questioned about his cab fares by the Metro Newspaper, Coleman claimed not to use taxis but thought he was being ferried about in ' an official GLA car '.

Johnston and Segathevan were arrested by the Ekurhuleni metro police, but Henk Strydom, Boksburg's senior public prosecutor, declined to prosecute due to " insufficient evidence and a case totally without merit ", and Johnston and Segathevan obtained a court interdict to protect them from McBride and the Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department, as they claimed McBride had made death threats against them, which McBride denied.

While in 1953, he claimed that " there was nothing we could not afford ", in 1954, he cautioned against the belief that " Metro has more money in the aggregate than we all had individually.

Metro Toronto chair William Allen claimed in 1966 that " streetcars are as obsolete as the horse and buggy.

The David Suzuki Foundation claimed the plan violated the goals of Metro Vancouver's Livable Region Strategic Plan.

In addition to these, a number of free-of-charge papers, generally dealing with entertainment, music and fashion have local editions ( for instance City, Rodeo, Metro and Nöjesguiden ).

The Louisville Cardinals were a MAC affiliate for field hockey for a number of years when Louisville was a member of the Metro Conference and Conference USA, winning two MAC tourney titles in 2003 and 2004.

Stone number SW9 stands in Benjamin Banneker Park on Van Buren Street, south of 18th Street, near the East Falls Church Metro station.

In 2008, St. Charles reports it had the largest number of National Merit Scholarship semi-finalists per capita in the Columbus Metro Area ( 10 out of a total enrollment of 621 ), and was second overall only to Upper Arlington High School, an excellent public school in the neighboring city of Upper Arlington ( 18 out of a total enrollment of 1851 ).

With a healthy continuing economy and the rapid growth of the Austin Metro area, the population of the City of Hutto should approach 40, 280 by 2020 ; that number should increase to 50, 140 by 2025 and reach 60, 000 by 2030.

Metro is the second-busiest rapid transit system in the United States in number of passenger trips, after the New York City Subway.

In order to deal with the high number of passengers in transfer stations, Metro is studying the possibility of building pedestrian connections between nearby core transfer stations.

By 2003, they have received a large number of awards from the four major Hong Kong media organizations of RTHK, Commercial Radio Hong Kong, Metro Radio and TVB.

The marque lived on after 1980 under BL, being used on a number of Austin saloons including the Metro, Maestro, and Montego.

The sizable number of Asian Canadians living in Metro Vancouver contributes to the large number of flights as well.

Snow Hill is the terminus of the Chiltern Main Line to London Marylebone as well as a number of local services from across the West Midlands, it is also the terminus of the Midland Metro light rail line from Wolverhampton ( via Wednesbury and West Bromwich ), pending the line's extension.

Metro International, publishers of the free newspaper Metro, are at 85 Fleet Street, while Meteor Press is at number 17.

Club level box lacrosse leagues in the United States have increased the number of players exposed to the sport, including the: Baltimore Indoor Lacrosse League, the Philadelphia Box Lacrosse Association, and the Metro Area Box Lacrosse League.

The report also recommended a number of other investment schemes including a " Thameslink Metro " line enhancement, and a new underground Chelsea Hackney line.

Torino Lingotto railway station is served by a number of regional train lines, as well as the Turin Metro ( Lingotto M1 ).

In addition, a number of commuter airlines served Beaumont / Port Arthur at various times over the years including Metro Airlines with de Havilland Canada DHC-6 " Twin Otter " and Shorts 330 turboprop flights nonstop to Houston, Royale Airlines with Embraer EMB-110 " Bandeirante " turboprop service nonstop to Houston and direct to New Orleans, and Conquest Airlines with Beechcraft 1900C and Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner turboprop service nonstop to Austin.

The Fairchild / Swearingen Metro ( developed from the original Queen Air through a number of stages ) filled a similar niche.

Metro Toronto ward names contained the number of the ward, name of municipality and the name of the local communities:

Her next film, Broadway Rhythm, in which she had a featured musical number, " Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet ", ended Walker's contract with Metro.

Presented below the lines within the Mexico City Metro system,, organized by number.

While its linear motors and steerable axles are relatively rare, the Innovia Metro has a number of competitors in the field of automated metros, including the VAL ( first used in Lille, France ) and the Meteor technology ( used by Line 14 of the Paris Métro ).

In 2005, Westwood One, Inc. and its traffic subsidiary, Metro Networks, sent several existing officers and directors of Westwood to Canada and Australia to unify a number of helicopter aviation companies that were already providing reports to Westwood One and Metro Networks ' affiliates.

Although construction was planned to begin in 1941, due to geo-political factors, the Bucharest Metro was only opened in 1979.

In early 2003, with a fleet of 3 Fairchild Metro and 22 Saab 340B's, the load factors were recovering as with many other airlines around the globe.

By 2007, this lifting of the ban, along with several other factors such as traffic congestion, lessening racial prejudice, increasingly progressive and environmental attitudes, have rekindled interest in what has come to be known as the Metro Purple Line.

Metro's attempts to reduce crime, combined with how the station environments were designed with crime prevention in mind, has contributed to Metro being among the safest and cleanest subway systems in the United States.

Largely intended for use in human settlement and industrial development, land reclamation projects contributed to the reduction of mangroves around the area, as well as significant reduction in Metro Manila's shoreline.

All three levels of government ( Metro Toronto, Provincial, Federal ) initially contributed $ 30 million ($ in dollars ).

In the 1930s, Kaganovich organized and contributed greatly to the building of the first Soviet underground rapid transport system, the Moscow Metro, which was named after him until 1955.

It also noted that Duffy worked at Chicago Venues: The House of Blues, The Cubby Bear and The Cabaret Metro / Metro Chicago as stage manager and sound engineer ; provided engineering and technical support at Chicago Trax recording studios ; and had contributed to releases on a plethora of large and independent record labels including 21st Circuitry, Bit Riot Records, BMG / RCA / D-Tribe Records, Cargo Music / Re-constriction Records, Conscience Records, Cracknation Records, Crash Music Inc., E-Magine Records, Failure To Communicate Records / FTC Records, Fifth Colvmn Records, Glitch Mode Recordings, Invisible Records / Underground, Inc., Island / Def Jam Records, Katharsis Records, Metropolis Records, MOGworld Records, Tinman Records, TVT Records, Warner Bros. Records, Wax Trax!

She did so in The Sunday Times and The Independent, but also contributed to the free daily London paper Metro in a similar capacity.

In 2008 Metro McAllen accomplished record high numbers in ridership, totalling 412, 151 passenger trips, accounting for more than twice the ridership recorded in 1998.

In June 2008, Metro set a new monthly ridership record with 19, 729, 641 trips, or 798, 456 per weekday.

A critical problem with the proposed subway is that the stations will be much narrower and shorter in comparison to existing Muni Metro stations on Market Street ; ridership projections reveal that the line will run at near capacity from the start of operations with little or no ability to increase capacity.

Although at one point the Evergreen Line was proposed to be a street-level LRT system that would not use Innovia Metro technology, in 2008 plans were changed back by the provincial government to facilitate higher ridership from increased capacity, shortened travel times and to integrate seamlessly with the existing SkyTrain network.

Metro said ridership on buses in the neighborhood was down significantly, and the transit agency reduced the number of buses on some routes to avoid having empty buses.

In September 2008, Metro Transit Police stepped up their visibility and presence at all stations with high student ridership, including Anacostia.

In 2003, due to increases in ridership on both the Metro and VRE lines, WMATA opened an additional parking garage on the premises for park-and-ride users, offering an additional 1, 000 parking spaces, and bringing the total to 5, 100 spaces.

As of 2011, Cheverly had the lowest average weekly ridership of any Metro station.

Although nearly 10, 000 riders were boarding each day at the three stations by the third week of January, Metro nonetheless handed out free rail passes ( the first free rail pass giveaway in the transit agency's history ) to customers at the three stations to encourage ridership.

Two months after the Anacostia station opened, Metro said that a study of bus and rail ridership showed that the unaltered bus routes were costing the transit agency $ 200, 000 a month in lost rail fares.

In November 1992, Metro reported that ridership at the Anacostia station was ( on average ) 7, 500 riders a day, 700 below estimates.

Metro admitted that although riders had made the switch from bus to rail, the lower ridership numbers due to the recession and not because of continuing bus service in the area.

Metro said ridership on buses in the neighborhood was down significantly, and the transit agency reduced the number of buses on some routes to avoid having empty buses.

Metro Transit Police stepped up their visibility and presence even further in September 2008 at all stations with high student ridership, including Anacostia.

When Metro began operations in 1976, the transit agency created the Joint Development Program cooperatively promote retail, office, and residential development on land owned by Metro, by state or local governments, or private owners in order to boost bus and rail ridership on the system, generate operating income for Metro, and help state and local governments see a return on their investment in Metro ( through revenues or increases in tax assessments ).