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Texas could get a 205-mph bullet train zipping between Houston and Dallas
The proposed electric railway line could travel 240 miles in under 90 minutes for over 6 million passengers per year.
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The dream of the first hydrogen rail network has died a quick death
Germany's Lower Saxony government started running 14 hydrogen trains in August 2022
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Increasing speed limits can lead to more crashes and deaths, AAA finds
Speed kills.
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U.S. pedestrian deaths reach a 40-year high
The number of pedestrians killed by drivers has been climbing for over a decade. Experts say some solutions are within reach.
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New York City will charge drivers going downtown. Other cities may be next
President Joe Biden’s administration is set to allow New York City to move forward with a landmark program to toll vehicles entering Lower Manhattan, after a public review period ends Monday.
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Switzerland is installing solar panels in the gap between train tracks
Interestingly, Sun-Ways isn't the first company to have started rolling out solar panels on railway tracks.
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Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?
We increasingly rely on GPS to get from A to B. But what happens if we’re led catastrophically astray – and are we losing our sense of direction?
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Dutch rail crash: One dead after passenger train hits crane and derails
The crash happened when a passenger train hit a construction crane near the village of Voorschoten.
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Paris votes to ban rental e-scooters
Paris voted overwhelmingly Sunday to banish for-hire electric scooters from the streets of the French capital, delivering a blow to operators and a victory for road safety campaigners.
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Why Fox News wants you to be afraid of electric bikes
Fox News is no stranger to the tactic of fearmongering as a way to stir up its base.
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On track: A bullet train from Las Vegas to Los Angeles by 2027
Brightline reaches an agreement with rail unions to commence works on the project.
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Norfolk Southern reported rise in railway accident rates in recent years
Just days later, a 150-car freight train, which was pulling at least five tanker cars containing a colorless but hazardous and carcinogenic gas, derailed in Ohio.
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$276 million was spent on 31 Spanish trains before it was realized they were too big to fit in the tunnels
Two Spanish officials were fired this week after the country spent $276 million on trains that were too large to fit in the rail network's tunnels.
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As e-bike fires rise, calls grow for education and regulation
Some point to cheap aftermarket batteries as the primary factor in e-bike and e-scooter battery fires and worry that micromobility device storage bans will set back transportation decarbonization efforts.
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France given go-ahead to abolish internal flights
France's ban on domestic short haul flights has just been approved by the European Commission.
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Fires from exploding e-bike batteries multiply in NYC — sometimes fatally
Four times a week on average, an e-bike or e-scooter battery catches fire in New York City. Sometimes, it does so on the street, but more often, it happens when the owner is recharging the lithium ion battery. A mismatched charger won't always turn off automatically when the battery's fully charged, and keeps heating up. Or, the highly flammable electrolyte inside the battery's cells leaks out of its casing and ignites, setting off a chain reaction.
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Why Switzerland built a 2-kilometer-long train
Made up of 100 cars and stretching for 1,906 meters, an electric-powered train has spiraled out of the Swiss mountains to smash a world record as part of celebrations to mark the 175th anniversary of the country's railways.
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Stockholm Thinks It Can Have an Electric Bikeshare Program So Cheap It’s Practically Free
This past June, Stockholm introduced a new shared bicycle service to replace Stockholm City Bikes, which operated from 2006 until 2018. Since that service shut down, the city was one of many around the world swamped by shared e-scooters that littered sidewalks and streets. As a result, the city wanted to reboot a bikeshare program with a more modern approach without succumbing to the trappings of the dockless scooter and bike craze.
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TGV unveils high-speed trains of the future
TGV M is a next generation high-speed double decker train that includes an extended nose for added aerodynamism -- perfect for hurtling across the French countryside at top speed.
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Fleet of hydrogen passenger trains begins service in Germany
German officials launched what they say is the world's first fleet of hydrogen-powered passenger trains Wednesday, replacing 15 diesel trains that previously operated on nonelectrified tracks in the state of Lower Saxony.
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