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Sunday, February 21, 2010

Tube overcrowding creating 'ruthless' travellers

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Source: itnnews - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPWhK6P7...
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Tube Overcrowding 2 December 2009

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The Telegraph: Tube overcrowding creates 'dog eat dog' commutersOvercrowding on the Tube has created a ruthless, survival-of-the-fittest mentality among passengers, a report claims. ''Dog-eat-dog'' travellers sometimes suspend normal behaviour to grab seats at the expense of pregnant women and people carrying babies, the report from the London Assembly found.Some passengers have to psyche themselves up to prepare for the ''struggle to clamber on...
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Friday, February 19, 2010

Extreme Commuting: Not Exactly the Sporting Life

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March 31, 2005Original post: Jon Coppelman There is a relatively new phenomenon for a growing number of working Americans: extreme commuting. According to Business Week, 3.4 million Americans have a commute to work that takes 90 minutes or longer each way. Fueled by outrageous inflation in housing prices, American workers find themselves driving until they qualify that is, driving out from their jobs until they reach a community where they can afford...
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Thursday, February 18, 2010

Urban public transport lab

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Sunday February 14, 2010On the right track for changeBy LEONG SHEN-LInewsdesk@thestar.com.myThe use of laboratories to identify problems and provide solutions has proven successful in drawing up the Government Transformation Programme roadmap.WHEN Mohamad Nur Kamal was told that he was going to head the laboratory tasked with finding solutions to the country’s urban public transport problems, the first thing that crossed his mind was “Why me?”Then...
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