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Pedestrian areas multiply in Europe, bucking trend in car-friendly U.S.

Pedestrian

Pedestrian-friendly cities are becoming the norm in Europe very much unlike in the United States where the trend is transforming cities to make them more conducive for car drivers. Governments in Europe are doing everything from converting multiple roads into pedestrian areas and creating so-called “environmental zones” within cities that are only for vehicles with […]

Details emerge in horrific train accident

Amtrack Train

Tragedy struck in the Nevada desert Friday morning as an Amtrack train overturned on its way to Emeryville, California. Six passengers have been confirmed dead and dozens more cling to life in serious or critical condition. Twenty-eight passengers on board the train are still missing and unaccounted for, according to authorities. As investigators sort through […]

Aviation tragedy nearly avoided at JFK Airport

Aviation officials are breathing a heavy sigh of relief  as two jumbo jets nearly collided near JFK Airport, just missing on another. The audio, released to the public, details the frightened exchange between the air traffic controllers at John F. Kennedy International Airport and a Lufthansa flight as it nearly crashed head-on with an airbus […]

Interstellar space travel idea can get you half a million dollars

Space Travel

Interstellar space travel is commonly found in science fiction books and movies but the U.S. Department of Defense wants to make it science fact. Dangling a grant worth half a million dollars, the Defense Department wanted to elicit bright ideas from the private sector to make space travel possible within the next 100 years. So […]

Public transport options dismal for seniors, study shows

Public Transport

Public transport will not be a viable option for baby boomers in many U.S. cities when they enter retirement age according to the Transportation for America Report presented in Congress today. The study reveals that 15.5 million retirees ages 65 to 79 will have poor or absent access to public transport four years from now. […]

Bullet train in China favored by those fed up with airport delays

Bullet Train

Bullet train service from Shanghai to Beijing, China is gaining favor among airline passengers who have been irritated by frequent airport delays. It will take less than five hours for passengers to travel the 1,318- kilometer route using the bullet train service between the two cities, much longer than the two-hour flight by most airlines. […]

Iceland volcano eruption threatens European air travel yet again

Iceland Volcano

The Iceland volcano eruption last year caused airport services to shut down and flights cancelled across Europe. Now, another one of the country’s restive volcanoes is at it again after staying quiet since 2004. The latest Iceland volcano eruption is by Grimsvotn in the Vatnajokull icecap located at the highlands of Iceland. It sent a […]

High speed rail Florida funds diverted to Northeast corridor

High Speed Rail Florida

  High speed rail funds worth $2 billion which was originally intended for Florida have been re-allocated to California and the Northeast after “The Sunshine State” spurned the project.   The White House announced the transfer of funding to build 22 high-speed rail networks in key regions in the country as part of its infrastructure […]

Terrorist attack targeting U.S. trains bared by intel report

Terrorist Attack

A terrorist attack was reportedly being planned by Al-Qaeda around early 2010 a decade after the September 11 attacks in New York. According to the Department of Homeland Security, the terrorist attack plot was discovered from documents and computer files from the Pakistan compound where they killed Osama Bin Laden. The agency warned local law […]

Chevrolet Cruze owners beware – you car has steering problems

Chevrolet Cruze

  Chevrolet Cruze owners and drivers will need to have their vehicles checked by GM mechanics as the U.S. automaker revealed Wednesday that the model may have steering shaft problems.   GM announced that it is recalling 154,112 units of their top-selling Chevrolet Cruze which were manufactured at their Lordstown, Ohio facility from last summer […]

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