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...George Psaradakis, 49, drove a No. 30 double-decker red bus through the streets of London last Thursday, there were signs that something was wrong. The city's traffic--never easy--was in a state of chaos. Thousands of commuters had left Underground train stations and were milling about the streets looking for alternative ways to get to work. Few of them had any idea of the scale of the devastation below: moments before, three bombs had gone off in the space of a minute on London's Underground railway. Psaradakis, whose bus was packed, had been forced to divert...
...days after the bombings, the official toll was 49 dead--a figure expected to rise--and some 700 injured. About 100 were still in hospitals around the capital, 22 listed as "severely injured." While the initial casualty figures were lower than in some previous attacks, such as the train bombings in Madrid in March 2004, the shock of the London bombings reverberated because they occurred in circumstances--and in a city--that are familiar to so many around the world. The first images of the hellish scenes in the London Underground came from cameras on passengers' cell phones, the latest...
Then, five minutes later, at 8:56 a.m., a second Underground train, between King’s Cross and Russell Square stations, was bombed. Police said 21 people died in that attack...
...train stopped for a long time and there was an announcement about signal failure, but I didn’t realize anything strange was going on until later,” Chase-Levenson wrote in an e-mail...
...many others also chose to drive to work. Unlike Boston, New York’s public transportation system never stops running. Cheap, diverse, and affordable, I can travel the same distance in anywhere from 22 minutes to an hour for between $2 (subway) and $9 (train at rush hour). So, why do many commuters choose the more expensive option—driving—when parking costs $10 to $40 per day and the car is slower, especially if you spend both rush hours in traffic...