The constant shifts in gas prices have encouraged people working and studying in Los Angeles to leave their cars at home and take public transportation instead. Francesca Ayala...
created by fayala | 31 wks ago | updated 31 wks ago 181 views | 20 recommendations | 2 comments
With each New Year, I resolve to spend less time in my car and more time walking, carpooling, riding my bike, or taking mass-transit to work. Here's a piece I wrote for all my fellow mass-transit geeks...
opinion by Adam Purple | 46 wks ago | updated 44 wks ago 1095 views | 57 recommendations | 23 comments
America has lost its highest profile mass transit commuter: Senator, and now Vice President-Elect Joe Biden. Long known for commuting daily on Amtrak between Washington and his Delaware home, Biden made himself the outsider-inside, shunning the salons of...
created by Adam Purple | 51 wks ago | updated 51 wks ago 177 views | 26 recommendations | 5 comments
With the Olympics and Paralympics behind them, Beijing is back to normal - congested as always."Beijing was grinding back to its congested normal on Saturday after two months of traffic restrictions and factory...
created by jessica.lam | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 191 views | 12 recommendations | 5 comments
Another interesting environmental reform from Michael Bloomberg's New York: the city is pressuring city employees to bike, rather than drive to work, the NY Times reports. "The city has drastically cut the...
created by julianw | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 603 views | 15 recommendations | 6 comments
Working from home is fast becoming the norm for small businesses in the UK. The benefits are huge with office space savings, travel and time savings. Government departments could also be working from home in Eco...
created by liamssoft | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 337 views | 5 recommendations | 2 comments
For the past 2 to 3 years, ever since I got stuck in bumper to bumper traffic on my way back from the Big Apple, when I go to New York I take the train.It is a reliable, punctual, relaxing ride.I can read, go over my notes, take a nap or whatever else I feel like.All things I...
With transit hikes set to roll out this week, New York City's Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) is facing increased media and public scrutiny on its spending habits. Today the New York Daily News released a...
created by Kaitlin | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 976 views | 0 recommendations | 8 comments
What could be greener than riding your bike to work? How about riding in style with the Puma 8 Speed Urban Mobility, a folding bike? Instead of stuffing your pockets with keys, wallet, cell phone and the like, the 'basket case' (actually a nylon bag that fits on the...
Every morning, at precisely 6:45 AM, my cell phone's alarm clock goes off to wake me up for school. One minute, I'm happily asleep, wrapped up in my gloriously warm sheets and probably dreaming. The next,...
created by amar_k | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 500 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
"North shore businesses struggle to find workers
Posted by By Cindy Chang, St. Tammany bureau May 12, 2007 9:45PM
Categories: Breaking News
In the post-Katrina scramble to recruit workers and reopen as soon as possible, Times Grill was among the many businesses in St. Tammany...
"Holy guacamole: it looks like they’re serious about building the Port of Miami tunnel. The contract may be awarded as soon as May; the construction could take 35 years.""Three teams have submitted bids to build...
created by Walyce Almeida | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 1073 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
" By Munawer Azeem ISLAMABAD, Nov 17: A long, frustrating struggle of Mirza Tahir Hussain to prove his innocence in a murder case and win forgiveness of the deceaseds family after his conviction, ended after 18 years, with the President of Pakistan commuting his death...
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" WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rush hour in Washington brings the slugs out into the light. Each workday, members of a unique breed of commuters known as "slugs" line up, sometimes at regular bus stops, sometimes at special areas. Chatting quietly, they wait for strangers to pick...
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