We've had hundreds of people waiting at stations but we just don't have enough room. We're doing everything we can ... but the numbers are just quite heavy.

They had a fire truck ladder extended to the car and broke the glass in the car. They started walking each of these people one by one down the ladder from the car.

Usually what we do is 'jog' the car, manually move it a few feet at a time, until it's in the station. We could not do that this time. ... That's very unusual.

It kind of builds on the Burma Shave concept. When you start reading them, naturally you want to get to the end of the rhyme.

One year from now, in December of '06, unless there's a funding solution for more dedicated funds for transit statewide, we will literally run out of money. That's the situation we're in.

As our Downtown loops go, that is probably the busiest one. It would be a challenge, but certainly we would work with the mayor on this and see what we could do. It can be done.