Posts Tagged with "Transportation"

Bicing In Barcelona

November 8, 2007

Back in September, we posted Bike dispensers, an article about convenient and easy to use bike rental services. Citywide bike rental services promote eco-friendly initiatives while providing practical and cost effective transportation to citizens. Bicing is another company we found located in Barcelona that allows residents to access bikes for inner city transportation from over [...]

Mass Tram America

October 28, 2007

Ben Missler from Mass Tram America envisions this large-scale elevated monorail as the future of public transportation. The tramcars are fabricated from salvaged airplane fuselages, and once attached to the rail system are propelled by motorized wheels that draw their power from solar panels or wind turbines attached to support towers.
Does this seem unrealistic? Missler [...]

Hangzhou Bay Bridge

October 23, 2007

Hangzhou Bay Bridge is an S-shaped stayed-cable bridge that links Jiaxing, a city just south of Shanghai to Cixi, a port city close to Ningbo. At 36 kilometers in length, the bridge features six lanes in both directions and reduces the travel distance between Shanghai and Ningbo by 120 km. The project, spearheaded by Chief [...]

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