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Management•by Staff•May 1, 2001

Park your car and grow rich

The City of Seattle is encouraging people to use public transit and other forms of non-automobile transportation by paying them not to use more than one car.

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Rail•by Staff•May 1, 2001

Bombardier temporarily lays off 100

A slowdown beginning at the end of April and lasting eight weeks caused about 100 people to be temporarily laid off from Bombardier’s Plattsburgh, N.Y., plant.

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Rail•by Staff•May 1, 2001

California tram is engineering marvel

The aerial tramway at Palm Springs, Calif., is one of three such in the world, and an engineering marvel.

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Management•by Staff•May 1, 2001

Fuel cell partnership receives government funding

The ThunderPower fuel cell bus partnership received $740,000 in government funding to develop and demonstrate a transit bus powered by a hydrogen fuel cell and a hybrid-electric drive system.

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Management•by Staff•May 1, 2001

New FTA, FRA administrators tabbed

It was announced that President Bush will nominate Jenna Dorn as FTA Administrator and Allan Rutter as FRA administrator.

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Rail•by Staff•May 1, 2001

Acela exceeding expectations

Since its inaugural run on Dec. 11, 2000, performance and revenue numbers of Amtrak’s Acela Express have consistently improved, exceeding original expectations.

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Rail•by Staff•May 1, 2001

Seoul subway shows film highlights

A train dedicated to the cinema was designed for use in Seoul, South Korea, to make traveling on the system more pleasurable.

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Rail•by Staff•May 1, 2001

Hong Kong firm bids on British rail project

A Chinese newspaper is reporting that the Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway Corp. will bid on the right to expand and operate Britain’s Manchester Metrolink light-rail system.

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Rail•by Staff•May 1, 2001

British rail feeling the pinch

The largest rail operator in the United Kingdom announced plans to cut costs by consolidating the management of three of its franchises, prompting complaints from the rail management union and passenger representatives.

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Management•by Cliff Henke, former associate publisher/editor of <i>METRO</i>•May 1, 2001

ISO 9001 gets second thoughts: comments from the trenches

There is a growing body of evidence that these standards, to put it diplomatically, have not fulfilled their promise.

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