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...AUTOMOBILES 106 Number of Chinese cities that will limit the use of private vehicles for a day this fall in a bid to promote environmental awareness and mass transit 1,000 Number of private cars added to the streets of Beijing every day. Transport accounts for 20% of China's energy consumption...
...While the denizens of downtown pride themselves on commuting to work by foot, bike and mass transit, that doesn't mean they want every travel convenience - as a new airline taking off from the heart of the city has discovered. Until recently, the only airport serving Canada's largest metropolis had been Lester B. Pearson International Airport, located 20 miles from the city centre. The airport is not accessible by subway, so downtowners have to slog through traffic snarls to get there. That looked like an opportunity to aviation entrepreneur Robert Deluce, who, last October, launched Porter Airlines. Porter offered...
...characterize potential terrorists who weren't on any watch lists. But several have already proved their deadly capabilities: the British government classified the four July 2005 London train bombers as clean-skins. Richard Reid, the would-be shoe bomber, was a clean-skin as well. Following the London transit attacks, Britain began to crack down on the threat by doubling its élite police antiterrorist squad and stepping up efforts to recruit spies within Muslim communities...
Future mobility. One of the main things young retirees overlook is what life will be like after they no longer drive. On average, women outlive their driving ability by 10 years, men by eight. The availability of mass transit and help from family come in handy...
...rent Yotel rooms for as little as $49 for a four-hour stay. That will be possible because he plans to roll out Yotels at airports (a Heathrow Yotel is slated to open this summer) and other travel hubs such as train and subway stations, where guests in transit may require rooms only for a shower and a nap. Like restaurants that turn over tables many times an evening, "We think we can let the rooms 21/2 times a day," Woodroffe says - that's a target occupancy rate...