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...Doing so makes economic as well as moral sense....
...Amtrak, the national passenger rail service, cancelled all its long-distance trips starting on Thursday because it operates on tracks owned by freight railroads outside the north-east....
...Amtrak, the national rail service, owns the station but the commuter lines from New Jersey and Long Island account for most of the traffic....
...Biden is a longtime rail commuter who championed the $24bn infusion that Amtrak, the nation’s largest passenger railroad, recently received to modernise its north-east corridor....
...That is entirely fitting for a country with such a proud maritime history as ours. Air passenger duty Let me turn now to Air Passenger Duty....
...“Put [Ryanair chief executive] Michael O’Leary in charge and he’d say, ‘Fuck you lot — we’re doing this.’” Between 1997 and 2017, passenger numbers at UK airports doubled....
...The McKinsey report predicts that intra-company travel for training or inspections is likely to be “decimated” as corporations look to minimise costs, and that major business conventions, including the exhibition...
...National train operators also said that passenger numbers were increasing....
...US corporations have raised so much cash — via equity as well as debt — that it has helped outweigh the earnings impact....
...The National Association of Manufacturers warned on Tuesday that officials could not restart the economy without providing “strong liability protections” for business....
...As he lays out in Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy, there are both productive and unproductive bubbles....
...While doing so, we might also use the mismatch between real and fictional as a scale on which to gauge the likely success of the bets taken by SoftBank’s $97bn Vision Fund — a staggering wager on an imagined...
...(FT) A train to Yucatán A 1,460km, $7.9bn railroad through the heart of Mayan territory could carry more than 8,000 passengers a day to some of Mexico’s most popular tourist destinations....
...Amtrak, the national passenger rail service, now provides around 32m passenger trips per year across 21,400 miles of routes, and is impressively semi-functional for a system whose notional funding...
...Three Chinese nationals working for the China Road and Bridge Corporation were last month charged in Kenya with attempting to bribe local officials investigating an alleged ticketing scam that was said to...
...Americans, it seems, are not proud of their national rail service. Amtrak’s reach was limited, they warned....
...Out of sight of the disgruntled passengers, however, Amtrak’s engineers are being supported by some of the world’s most advanced technologies to prevent those delays....
...a day, according to Amtrak....
...But Chinese private businesses have been vocal about the difficulties of doing business in Russia, and even large state-to-state oil projects are still subject to intense talks long after official deals...
...Hours later, the House of Representatives’ appropriations committee voted to cut Amtrak’s funding by 18 per cent. A successful public transport system is a national benefit....
...Amtrak said there had been 238 passengers and five crew on board the train when it derailed....
...He thought he was doing something for us — and no one said ‘thank you’.”...
...Many politicians in other parts of the country hope the arrival of Google Fiber across “fly-over” America will be as important as the railroads of the 19th and 20th centuries, helping the country build a...
...In 1971 regulators allowed operators to end most of their passenger services and pass the remainder to Amtrak, which eventually became part of the federal government....
...Doing so at the same rate as in this Parliament would raise at least another £5 billion. Today I commit to deliver that....
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