Browsing: transportation
Why can’t America have high speed rail? Because our investment is a ‘rounding error’ compared with Europe’s, says Amtrak’s CEO
Across the world, high-speed trains zip from city to city, sometimes topping 250 miles per hour before dropping off hundreds…
Crewmember mistakenly caused the ship’s engine to stall hours before a blackout led to the Baltimore Bridge collapse
The cargo ship Dali experienced electrical blackouts about 10 hours before leaving the Port of Baltimore and yet again shortly before it…
After getting billions in federal funding, Amtrak is ‘trying to claw 19th century and 20th century assets and pull them into the 21st century,’ CEO says
Every day, several speeding Amtrak trains slow down from a rip-roaring 110 miles per hour to a 30-mile-per-hour crawl as…
Amtrak no longer has to live ‘hand to mouth’ after being starved of funding for decades, CEO says
In January 2021, lifelong Amtrak super user and evangelist Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United…
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Bayer AG’s most well-known brand may be Aspirin, one of the greatest inventions in healthcare and considered one of the…
Scarecrows get automated as Alaska airport turns to robot disguised as a coyote or fox to fix its bird problem
A headless robot about the size of a labrador retriever will be camouflaged as a coyote or fox to ward…
Reeling from subway shootings, NYC launches metal detectors from a company accused of doctoring software results
New York City officials announced a pilot program on Thursday to deploy portable gun scanners in the subway system, part…
Was Baltimore’s bridge collapse the fault of the cargo ship or the bridge? Both, experts say—and there’s no quick fix on the horizon
Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge crumpled at the impact of the Dali shipping container a gross tonnage of 95,000 on…
Now that the presumptive U.S. presidential candidates have been set, the campaigning for the federal election of 2024 will soon…