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...Boring problems Elon Musk’s Boring Company has built a tiny loop to move cars through Las Vegas, but workers of the “hyperloop” mass-transit system say its tunnels are packed with chemical sludge, reports...
...Meanwhile, developers are betting that the best and most advanced towers — laden with technology and amenities and situated by mass transit — will prosper....
...Portman said funding for mass transit projects was “one issue outstanding” on which Republicans were “not getting much response from the Democrats”....
...transit systems....
...They sense a chance to restore the Arcadia before mass air transit and just-in-time manufacturing. The pandemic teased this nostalgia out of people but it was already there in other forms....
...“There’s suddenly a critical mass there all the time doing business,” she says....
...transit systems explains why many are keen to operate from home....
...Minimising the exodus Instead of people arriving in vast numbers for Expo 2020, a mass exodus of expatriates — who make up the bulk of Dubai’s 3.3m population — is more likely....
...But it was in the early 20th century that crude oil — plants and animals that lived millions of years ago, compressed deep underground — propelled the mass transit of people and goods, fostered modern lifestyles...
...In that period he worked on such successful projects as the financing of Hong Kong’s mass transit system and the construction of the Caracas metro....
...“Our brand’s voice has to be authentic and genuine — the antithesis of the big corporation or conglomerate,” says Bouton....
...No relief for congestion While older rail lines from the 1990s are operating very close to capacity during rush hours, the newest line — the Sungai Buloh-Kajang (SBK) mass rapid transit, opened in December...
...Only 14 per cent of Washington DC area’s workers use mass transit to get to work. That would rise sharply if Amazon moved in. Yet the US capital’s metro system is already at breaking point....
...Thai corporations and state-owned enterprises have launched a slew of venture capital firms and accelerator programmes in the past year or two....
...– In which the on-demand black-car-service-cum-taxi-operator-cum-mass-transit-company-cum-logistics-firm-cum-driverless-vehicle-fleet-cum-flying-car-service begins to buyback shares from employees....
...Michael Motala is a freelance writer and Joseph-Armand Bombardier Doctoral Fellow studying at the University of Toronto....
...Last year, CSR Sifang won a HK$6bn contract from Hong Kong’s mass transit operator the MTR corporation, in the largest order of new rolling stock for the Hong Kong system, and together with Kawasaki Heavy...
...In the Middle East, the low oil price has led to the cancellation of some projects but growth is still significant due to mass transit systems being built in cities such as Dubai, Jedda and Mecca as well...
...The Chinese rail equipment makers have won contracts to supply Boston and Chicago with rail cars, and Hong Kong’s mass transit operator....
...Large infrastructure projects in Malaysia – such as the Kuala Lumpur mass rapid transit rail line – are typically financed via private finance initiatives: an SOE would raise bonds with a full government...
...john.gapper@ft.com ——————————————- Letter in response to this column: Rewards too low in mass transit airline industry / From Mr Matt Andersson...
...It is also thanks to the region’s very effective, centralised planning system, which is at present processing five MTR (mass-transit railway) line extensions....
...One such accomplishment is the new $234m mass-transit aerial cable-car system which connects El Alto, a sprawling city of impoverished rural immigrants on a high plateau, with the country’s capital La Paz...
...Ten minutes drive from Lagos’s Murtala Muhammed international airport, the Evergreen Apple terminal is better known by locals as the “Big Man airport”, a sobriquet befitting its status as the transit station...
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