Word: transportion
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...publicity stunts go, this one could have been better timed. Throughout May and June, as waves of strikes disrupted public transport in France and forced the cancelation of hundreds of trains, the French national railroad company SNCF lugged 28 engines and carriages onto the Champs Elysées for an exhibition that promised to "put the whole of Paris under the spell of rail." The exhibits ranged from a replica of an 1829 steam locomotive to the latest version of the high-speed tgv. There were even models of the very commuter trains hardest hit by the strike...
...Every regular rail traveler has some version of that story, so it's little surprise that rail has lost out badly as a means of transportation. In the past three decades, travel by private car grew three times as fast as passenger transport by rail - leaving rail's share of journeys at just 6%. The €10 billion rail-freight business has fared even worse: its share of the European Union market has collapsed from 21% in 1970 to just 8% today. (By comparison, about 40% of freight goes by rail in the U.S.) Things have got so bad that...
...railroads were first built in the 19th century," says David Briginshaw, editor of the U.K.-based International Railway Journal. Some say even that's not enough: last week, the European Commission released a report suggesting that a further €235 billion should be spent on rail and other transport links throughout Europe. Can either approach work? The French experience with high-speed trains suggests that they can win back passengers. Last year, shortly after SNCF opened its €4 billion high-speed route between Paris and Marseilles, cutting travel time from 4 hr. 20 min. to just 3 hr., traffic...
...grown up on a diet of Bengali and British-Indian literature, Ali's debut is little more than a lentil broth, warm and easily digested, but predictable and lacking in flavor. And even if this world is brand-new to you, its charms may not transport you all the way to page 413. Brick Lane tells the story of Nazneen, born in a Bangladeshi village and sent to London in 1985 as the bride of Chanu, a much older man chosen by her father. In Britain, she lives the soporific life of an Asian housewife, raising two daughters (after...
...appropriately dressed in decorous attire—matching handbags and shoes, bien sûr—we entered the sanctity of the Bristol Lounge feeling as though we belonged. The Bristol Lounge is one of those rare gems that seems to transport you back to an age where ladies really did lunch, gentlemen smoked cigars and cucumber sandwiches were the snack-food of choice. Beacon Hill grandmothers luxuriated on overstuffed armchairs while their tow-headed grandchildren bounced up and down on equally comfortable, homey sofas. Near the elegant bar that lined one side of the room, harassed businesspeople took...