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Wong Maye-E/AP The first snowstorm of the season to hit the New York City area brought several inches of snow, slowing Thursday’s evening commute to a crawl. From St. Louis to the South and into the Northeast, snow, freezing rain, and sleet made driving tricky and closed schools. Commuters also were advised to avoid the […]
Commuters across the country could make hefty savings as the Severn crossing bridge toll charge gets scrapped. The daily £5.60 charge will be scrapped from December this year, a week before Christmas. Tolls have been in force on the Severn Bridge since it was introduced in 1966. Regular commuters could make savings of up to […]
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Instagram Embed: //instagram.com/p/BMpLM4Bj9He/embed Width: 658px There’s an Instagram account dedicated to collecting video footage of commuters in Sydney missing their trains. The account @missedyabus shows people running to catch their ride — and their devastated faces when they don’t make it. It’s highly amusing. There’s an Instagram account dedicated to collecting humiliating video footage of commuters […]
GETTY Fifty-six per cent of train journeys are for commuting, latest government figures show Q: The media, particularly the BBC, like to refer to all train passengers as “commuters”. What percentage of passenger journeys is made up by people commuting to and from work, as opposed to those travelling for business, leisure or other purposes? […]
Published time: 4 Aug, 2017 10:04 Beijing commuters showed there’s strength in numbers when they united to rescue a man trapped between a train and a station platform. Video uploaded to Weibo purports to show the dramatic rescue at the Beijing Metro Subway Dongzhimen station Thursday evening, when commuters and station staff joined together to […]
Stephanie Keith / Stringer / Getty Images The long-brewing “summer of hell” has kicked off in the New York metro area. As parts of Penn Station, the US’s busiest train hub, have shut down for extensive track repairs, commuters are already complaining about crowded, standing-room-only trains, the New York Post reports. And experts warn that […]
A two-month period of extensive repairs of signals and tracks at New York’s Penn Station, a major commuter hub for nearly 600,000 people, began with some overcrowding and delays. In 2016, 3,000 delays and cancellations were caused by engineering work. Monday morning’s rush hour began without any unusually large crowd and without any major problems. […]
For other riders, an electric motorcycle is a two-wheeled invitation to talk. It’s the lack of sound that initially tips them off. They always ask about range and speed. But mostly range. How far can they ride before they would have to plug in? With the new Zero Motorcycles DS 6.5, it’s a conversation that […]
A power failure caused delays on multiple subway lines during the morning commute for many New Yorkers, leaving commuters stranded and furious. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority said they were investigating the signal problems and people should allow for extra travel time. In a tweet, the agency reminded New Yorkers that if a train delay made […]
