Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Viridity Energy and SEPTA awarded $900,000 from the State of Pennsylvania for innovative project to recycle energy produced by electric public transit.
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Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
by Gennady Sheyner Palo Alto may soon take a formal "no confidence" stance against California's proposed high-speed-rail line and begin lobbying state legislators to halt the voter-approved project. A council committee is to consider the matter Thursday morning and the rail plan is agendized for the full City Council's Sept. 13 meeting.
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Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
Colossal Saudi clock tower may just succeed in changing the watches of the world.
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Saturday, August 28th, 2010
Forget the traffic snarls or the crowded local trains. Mumbaikars staying at Borivali could take the waterway and reach Nariman Point in 45 minutes flat while enjoying the Arabian Sea breeze.
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Sail through Mumbai traffic in 45 minutes flat!
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Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
A meeting on how to pull together to move forward with the Peterborough-Toronto rail line upgrade revealed diverging views on how to restore commuter passenger train service.
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Charity could run the rail: Del Mastro
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
A view of the IT Park in Durgapur.
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West Bengal makes rapid strides in industrial development
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Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
Mayor Richard Daley will announce formation of a committee Wednesday to study a premium express train service between downtown and O'Hare International Airport. The move follows an unsuccessful attempt by the CTA to launch faster rail service to both O'Hare and Midway airports from the Loop . The Daley administration still believes a business model can be developed to support an express train ...
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Premium rail service to O'Hare to be studied
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Thursday, August 5th, 2010
Research shows that men are the main drivers of the HIV epidemic. Men transmit HIV to women, who, in turn, can infect their babies if they fall pregnant. But this can be prevented if men become a part of the woman's pregnancy.
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Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
The end of automotive mobility?
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Project Syndicate
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Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
BRUNSWICK Surrounded by train enthusiasts, state and local politicians and Federal Rail Authority Administrator Joseph Szabo, Pan Am Railways workers Monday removed old railroad ties and began laying the first of 50 1,650-foot sections of rail along the tracks near Maine Street.
More here: Ceremony marks launch of Portland to Brunswick rail upgrade
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