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...Having relocated from the relatively orderly city of Bombay to the chaotic city of Bangalore, I feel that one of the main reasons for traffic disorder is the lack of proper public transport in Bangalore. It is something like the difference between New York City (with its effective mass-transit system) and Los Angeles. I remember waiting for a long time for buses in suburban California. Lack of public transport increases the number of vehicles on the roads, and that in turn reduces the amount of public transport. It is a vicious circle. Bangalore traffic is so bad that...
...relieve some of the pressure." That would give Poles double cause for a feast of thanksgiving. Turbulence Over Italy Alitalia management and unions made little progress on a layoff-heavy deal to save the Italian flag carrier as a Sept. 15 deadline neared. "This is the last chance," warned Transport Minister Pietro Lunardi. Unions responded with threats of strikes, while rival Ryanair increased pressure by adding five new Italian routes...
...departed from the same Moscow airport; the planes crashed within a minute of each other; eyewitness reports suggested that an explosion had downed one of the planes; and a hijack distress call preceded the crash of the other plane. Yet Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) and its Transport Minister reflexively rejected the explanation that seemed obvious: terrorism...
...months, more than 100 hostages from nearly 20 countries have been seized in Iraq. In some cases they were freed. Seven truck drivers abducted in July were released by their captors last week after a ransom of $500,000 was paid by their employer, the Kuwait and Gulf Link Transport Company. But a group calling itself the Army of Ansar al-Sunna announced last week that it had executed 12 hostages from Nepal abducted in August, accusing the country's leadership of assisting U.S. forces in Iraq. But French journalists had been largely spared. "The few times French journalists were...
...told me, "We just did it!" Here's one reason: more than a million Athenians - or around a fifth of the city's population - basically decamped for the duration of the games, most of them hiding out in the islands. Result: the capital's notorious gridlock vanished, and the transport systems worked faultlessly. Those of us who chose to stay did our civic duty as volunteers for the Games. We even scrambled to fill the stadiums so that the events could look perfect on TV - admittedly, we were only occasionally successful at that one. Some of us schlepped to Olympia...