transit
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Fortress purchased Brightline’s predecessor nearly two decades ago with an idea to transform regional transit by connecting major cities across Florida.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
All the recent L.A. mayors I’ve known had their faults and failures, whether the task was filling potholes, building out transit or addressing the high cost of housing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
According to Waymo, recent surveys show that more than 50% of Waymo customers use public transit in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Phoenix.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
The rewards program applies to all 27 Bay Area transit agencies that accept Visa tap-to-pay.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
They were taken from Anacortes on a train to a transit camp—the horse stables at the Puyallup fairgrounds.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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Most confirmed exoplanets have instead been found through transits.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
Hormuz transits are hard to measure, mostly because ships transiting the strategic waterway turn off their GPS-like signals for security measures and to avoid Iranian attacks.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Espino de Marotta: We have 10 daily transits through the canal’s biggest locks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
In 2023, El Nino forced a reduction in daily transits from 38 to 22 due to the dramatic reduction in reservoir levels.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
I watched two Phobos transits yesterday and sighted Deneb last night.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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Axios reported that around 40 ships transited the strait over the weekend, while The New York Times reported U.S. diplomats would return to the Middle East.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
And despite the overall lull in the fighting, Iran fired drones at oil tankers from the United Arab Emirates, another U.S. ally, as they transited the Strait of Hormuz this month.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
Other shipping companies have transited the Arctic passage before, with Denmark's Maersk the first to do so in 2018.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
The carrier recently transited the Strait of Malacca moving westward alongside guided-missile destroyers, according to ship-tracking data and a U.S. official.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The great comet of 1882 transited the sun’s disc on Sunday, September 17, of that year, the ingress taking place at 4h 50m 58s, Cape mean time.
From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by J. Ellard Gore
Commercial ship trackers say the amount of oil transiting the strait is still small compared with what it was before the war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Signs that tankers are transiting the Strait of Hormuz and renewed diplomatic efforts have encouraged oil traders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Hormuz transits are hard to measure, mostly because ships transiting the strategic waterway turn off their GPS-like signals for security measures and to avoid Iranian attacks.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
The Saudi national shipping company, Bahri, confirmed on Wednesday that its vessel Sidr was "involved in a security incident while transiting the Strait of Hormuz".
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
We will expand our global capability for detecting illicit materials, weapons, and personnel transiting abroad or heading for the United States or U.S. interests overseas.
From National Strategy for Combating Terrorism September 2006 by National Security Council (U.S.)
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