Word: railings
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Among the enthusiasts are transit officials desperately seeking to boost ridership on buses and trains. Car sharing is not designed for traveling from home to work and back--the cost would be too high for a 10-hour day. But, stationed near office buildings and along rail lines, shared cars offer "mobility insurance" for workers who avoid mass transit because they just might need a car for a midday errand. The message: If you must own a car, leave it in your garage at home. Washington Metro officials have placed 107 Flexcars and Zipcars at 66 city and suburban stations...
President Bush may want to slash operating subsidies for Amtrak. But with America's passenger rail service running through 46 states, plenty of members of Congress will work to stop him dead in his tracks...
...DENIS DOUTE, vice president of France's SNCF freight network, on the difficulties of implementing a plan to streamline rail-freight delivery between France and Germany
...after the violence struck home with a terror spree starting in May 2003, a poll published last year said 48.7% still had a positive opinion of bin Laden's rhetoric. Al Awdah, the radical sheikh who has joined with bin Laden in political causes in the past, continues to rail against social reform in Saudi Arabia, saying there is "no place for secularism in the Muslim world" and calling attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq "a religious duty...
According to Rivera, the engineer of the commuter rail that struck the students told T police that he saw the students when they were only 50 feet in front of him and was not able to honk the horn or hit the brakes in time—the train would have required approximately a half a mile to be able to stop...