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...San Francisco’s county transportation authority has blamed car-booking services for half of the rise in the city’s congestion between 2010 and 2016....
...Operation Brock, a traffic management system designed to cope with queues of up to 13,000 lorries heading for the continent, will be fully activated by Kent police and local authorities....
...The proof of concept is vital for testing the techniques, economics and public acceptance of a new kind of underground transit system....
...Ideally, all publicly owned assets in a given city would be placed in the fund, regardless of whether they technically belong to the county, the city, the school system, the state or some other entity....
...Managers at the system, owned by the state of New Jersey, failed to move rolling stock from a rail yard threatened by the storm surge, meaning that flooding wrecked hundreds of the system’s railcars....
...However, Uber says its long-term goals have a lot in common with those of public transit authorities, as both systems seek to make transportation more efficient by offering alternatives to individually owned...
...There are currently 16 systems around the US, ranging from historic systems like San Francisco’s “muni” system to newly built networks such as those running through Hudson County in New Jersey....
...He cites Bergamot Transit Village as an example....
...Andrew Cuomo, New York’s governor, declared a state of emergency for all of New York City and several counties on Long Island and immediately north of the city....
...business rate revenue if they join together in combined authorities....
...“Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc on our entire transportation system in every borough and county of the region....
...The approach of hurricane Sandy, which has already killed more than 60 people in the Caribbean, has already derailed presidential campaigning plans and caused New York to shut down its public transport system...
...Although authorities were expecting a large surge of water, it would not be a tropical storm or hurricane-style surge but rather “a slow pile up of water”....
...systems....
...Despite years of worsening congestion, city authorities have had little success in alleviating the problem....
...The notorious vertical power is not just a construction but it’s a redistribution of authority and power....
...“Real time bus arrival information systems have promoted improved customer service, increased customer satisfaction and convenience, and improved visibility of transit in the community,” says Carol Schweiger...
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