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Which Form of Transit Has the Smallest Carbon Footprint?

October 31, 2024 admin air quality, Amtrak, Aviation, bicycles, chevy bolt euv, clean transport, electric bikes, electric cars, Electric vehicles, energy efficiency, research, SCIENCE, trains / rail

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 01:47:30 +0000

One of my life’s ongoing inner ruminations is considering options for transportation. (The welcome influence of CleanTechnica.) If walking is a timely option, I prefer to do it. For the simple reason that I always—I mean always—feel better after going for a walk. Walking restores vitality that is lost after … [continued]

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VW GEN.TRAVEL Concept Proves: Car Companies HATE Trains

October 19, 2022 admin Amtrak, autonomous cars, cars, clean transport, concept cars, electric cars, Electric vehicles, high speed rail, robotaxis, volkswagen (vw)

Credit to Author: Jo Borrás| Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 18:45:37 +0000

It’s a common enough joke on the EV forums: Elon Musk hates trains. Musk hates trains so much, in fact, that he supposedly put forward the Hyperloop project specifically to disrupt a high-speed rail project in California, all in a bid to sell more cars. Well, it seems that the Tesla CEO Technoking is in […]

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Remote Workers Could Doom High-Speed Rail Projects

April 29, 2022 admin Amtrak, clean transport, green economy, high speed rail, hyperloop, mass transit, mass transit / public transit, policy & politics, remote workers, trains / rail

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 13:00:12 +0000

Living in a rural area or in a smaller city has always come with the cost of needing to secure transport of some kind (like a shuttle, taxi, or a friend) to take you to the airport or train station, especially in the United States. But the trend towards remote workers business models trend underway […]

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A Problem That Could Plague Rapid Transport Like Bullet Trains & Hyperloop

April 27, 2022 admin Amtrak, clean transport, green economy, high speed rail, hyperloop, mass transit / public transit, policy & politics, trains / rail

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 13:00:12 +0000

If you look at Amtrak’s route map, you’ll notice that the service isn’t really geared toward serving rural areas and smaller cities. Sure, they do stop at some smaller cities along existing rail routes, but those aren’t the point as much as a place to get fuel and let people get onto connecting services. On […]

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Almost 200 People Got Trapped on a Train for Days in Oregon’s Brutal Snowstorm

February 26, 2019 admin Amtrak, oakridge, Oregon, rebekah dodson, The VICE Guide to Right Now, train horror story, vgtrn

Credit to Author: River Donaghey| Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 18:11:13 +0000

The train hit a tree and then got snowed in, with 183 people inside.