Public transit cuts costs in Los Angeles

   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...

Top ten signs you are a mass-transit geek

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...

'Amtrak Joe' No More

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...

Beijing back to pre-Olympic congestion

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...

NYC pressures its workers to bike to work

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...

Small businesses shift to home working

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...

Googlers and Microsofters Get on the Bus...

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...

New York's transit 'bloat' woes

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...

Take your Bike to Work Day? Fold that Puma Urban Mobility

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...

[Planes, Trains, & Automobiles.... and Community Shuttles] - My Daily Journey...

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,...

North shore businesses struggle to find workers

"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...

Miami: Commute by boat instead of car

"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...

Freed Mirza Tahir heads back home - Pakistan Dawn

" 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...

I ain't gonna ride the Montclair to New York bus no more

When you end up spending more time commuting than at the actual event, it is time to rethink your options.

For some in Washington, commuting's a slug-fest (Reuters)

" 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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