Shanghai's subway system moving ahead at full throttle
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SHANGHAI - In 1990, Shanghai was a poor, decaying post- colonial metropolis shaking off decades of economic stagnation. Its streets were congested, too - with bicycles.
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Among the projects in a $21 billion program are renovations to subway and commuter train stations
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German engineer Michael Bosch is not fazed by the lack of a gym and other creature comforts at his budget hotel in a converted Shanghai office building. He's stayed at such hotels on nearly a dozen trips to Chinese cities.
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310mph, $45bn project Japanese rail operator Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Central) has announced it will build the world's fastest maglev system, with 310mph (500km/h) vehicles running along a 180-mile (290km) track between Tokyo and central Japan.â¦
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World freight shipping prices, particularly the cost of transporting dry raw materials, are steaming ahead at record levels, powered mainly by China's insatiable demand for bulk levels of imported commodities.
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Business & money: Critical upgrade work on network could be scaled back, London Underground boss warns.
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For first time visitors to China, one of the most stunning entry points is Shanghai. The view from the mouth of the Yangze River, which looks out over Shanghai and other cities,  reveals an incredible urban and industrial panorama, clearly one of the most rapidly developing areas among all the cities of the world.  And yet . . . The Chinese have described themselves as "A plate of scattered sand grains" that would never join or unite with each other.  Piset, in his latest Awakening Dragon column, tells the story of Two Bridges to illustrate just some of the underlying dynamics of China's explosive economic growth.
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New York's subway, which turns 100 this week, connected neighborhoods and eased the city's congestion.
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Longer, faster hi-tech trains planned to end delays and overcrowding.
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After a more than a decade of delays, China's tallest building is slicing through Shanghai's hazy, skyscraper-studded skyline  -  a new trophy built by a Japanese property tycoon.
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By Sue Doyle, Daily News, Los Angeles  Feb. 23--Forget the cyber cafe; take the cyber commute.    The MTA's Orange Line and subway system may not always deliver a  high-speed trip, but transit officials would like to offer commuters  high-speed Internet service.
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The world-famous black London taxi cab will soon be seen on the streets of China after its maker has announced a multi-million-pound deal to build 20,000 vehicles per year in Shanghai.
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Electronic signs and a voice recording are part of a new system being tested to give subway riders accurate information about the arrival time of trains.
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Google Maps has updated some of the street maps or hybrid views of major US cities with Metro and Subway stations and pencil outlines of buildings.  This my be a sign of Google Transit expansion, but even if not, it&#8217;s a great new addition to Google Maps. [Hattip : Google Operating System] Advertisement:  Text Link Brokers Sell [...]
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In this inland port city of over 8  million, sprawled out on the banks of the Yangtze river,  China's grand hopes of a consumer boom are palpable.
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A bird&#39;s eye view of the circuit at Shanghai shows what an event Sunday&#39;s Chinese Grand Prix will be. The course is arguably one of the best there is, and so it should be considering the amount of money that has been spent on it.
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The demographic future belongs to cities like Mumbai, Shanghai and Dhaka.