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HopStop, a web and mobile application that provides door-to-door directions in 37 metropolitan centers, has expanded into 20 additional markets (listed below), including San Diego, Honolulu and Columbus, Ohio.
The company has also redesigned its site, which includes enhanced navigation options and better sharing features.
http://mashable.com/2011/06/20/hopstop-redesign/HopStop, a web and mobile application that provides door-to-door directions in 37... more
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Latest Complete News Updates My pledge to ride every CTA bus line continues. Some Chicago commuters waking up Monday noticed a problem with a popular transit tool: CTA’s Bus Tracker was not functioning.Latest Complete News Updates My pledge to ride every CTA bus line continues. Some... more
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# Overall fuel consumption may marginally be reduced for people may not like to travel in free transport for want of amenities and privacy;possibly private vehicular traffic might increase.
# Where is the justification for taxing people who have private vehicles in the form of parking space fees,road up gradation etc as they are already paying road taxes?
# Cars are also seen as status symbols as well;people who use them shall continue using them and more people would go in for purchasing vehicles.
# Human Nature being what it is, people would like to stamp their individuality in owning cars.You can not quantify human nature and reduce it to mere numbers by imagining to follow ‘greatest good for the greatest numbers’
http://ramanan50.wordpress.com/2011/01/25/free-public-transport-does-it-make-sense/# Overall fuel consumption may marginally be reduced for people may not like to... more
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Nobel Prize-winning head of the IPCC Dr. Pachauri talks about the need for investments in public transportation... citing benefits to the environment... and taking a crack at American security procedures at the airports post 9/11.Nobel Prize-winning head of the IPCC Dr. Pachauri talks about the need for investments... more
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A new initiative to encourage safe sex has been launched in Beijing, with the installation of over 400 automatic condom machines that look like LCD TV screens stationed all over the city. What is more, citizens will be able to purchase the condoms with their "One Card", which is usually topped-up for use on buses and the metro, like London's Oyster Card system.
Sounds like a really positive move towards AIDs prevention and safer sex, and a really innovative idea too! Imagine being able to pick up a condom along with your bus ticket!A new initiative to encourage safe sex has been launched in Beijing, with the... more
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If you have ever been on one of Berlin's trains, you will know that they smell of many things, not all of them pleasant. However, this is about to change as German rail, which runs the Berlin S-Bahn system, has announced plans to lace the trains with its very own de-odoring odor.
An employee came up with the ambitious idea to neutralize urban smells with an "S-Bahn perfume" contest, to find ways to improve the experience of commuters. The preliminary stages, underway soon, will involve "test sniffing" with trials being run in 100 of the city's 620 local trains.
The initiative is loosely based on a similar project in the Paris Metro, which introduced a fragrance called "Madeleine" in 1999. Named after what was formerly the French capital's smelliest stop (and a delicious pastry), the perfume has notes of orange, lemon and lavender.
The Deutsche Bahn abandoned the idea of using Madeleine in Germany after several trial revealed that the fragrance proved too weak to overcome Berlin's subway odors.If you have ever been on one of Berlin's trains, you will know that they smell of... more
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Rentokil, the UK's biggest pest control people, has reported a 40 per cent increase in the number of transport-related call-outs in the last year!
But don't worry, only two thirds of their call outs are related to bed bugs, the other third are related to FLEAS AND OTHER BITING INSECTS!
David Cain, managing director of Bed-Bugs.co.uk, a dedicated bedbug obliteration service, said: "The number one reason for the spread of bedbugs is the lack of public awareness. People simply do not know how to detect them in the way they would have done in the 1950s and 1960s.
"They are a problem on buses, trains and subway systems, and on cruise ships too – any form of transport where there is a high turnover, really. Recently, on an overground train in south London, I pulled at the parting of the upholstery and found at least four months of dirt and debris."
Nice.Rentokil, the UK's biggest pest control people, has reported a 40 per cent... more
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An environmentally-friendly couple in London have had a green wedding by travelling to their ceremony by Tube.
Stefanie Schmiedel, Robert Gray and their wedding guests went from Dollis Hill underground station in north-west London to Marylebone register office.
"We thought about going on our bikes but this was a compromise," he said.
Her dress was made from reusable material, her engagement ring was second-hand and the menus and order of service were printed on recycled paper.
To ensure the event was as environmentally-friendly as possible, catering at their reception used local produce and the wedding cake was organic.
Ms Schmiedel said: "If in everyday life we try to be as environmentally friendly as we can, why should we change on our wedding day?"
Mr Gray added: "We didn't feel that we needed a stretch limo to get to their register office when we have got an Oyster card and the Tube."
Inspirational, or just a bit mad? Is your wedding day (if you're crazy enough to get married) the one day you can push the boat out, or the best day ever to show the world that green is greatest?
An environmentally-friendly couple in London have had a green wedding by travelling to... more
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Never mind Paul Daniels, David Copperfield or Paul Mckenna, try an old hat & some sexy girls!
Never mind Paul Daniels, David Copperfield or Paul Mckenna, try an old hat & some... more
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