Tag: transit
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The key things to know about Biden’s EV infrastructure plan
The key things to know about Biden’s EV infrastructure plan Katie Fehrenbacher Wed, 04/07/2021 – 01:15 Within President Joe Biden’s $2.25 trillion infrastructure plan — the American Jobs Plan — unveiled last week, the White House is proposing a massive $174 billion investment “to win the EV market.” It’s a historic move that will have…
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The COVID-19 threat is here for the foreseeable future. As cities reopen, protecting passengers on public transit is a matter of life and death.
Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images; Samantha Lee/Business Insider Cities will need to make some major changes to allow citizens to travel safely and efficiently post-lockdown, experts told Business Insider. A handful of systemic transportation issues — like the sporadic reliability of public transit, the lack of safe bike lanes, gridlock in city centers, and unequal…
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Elon Musk’s mission to solve LA’s ‘soul-destroying’ traffic problem has begun, but there’s turbulence ahead
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk made a brief public appearance late on Tuesday to unveil the first tunnel completed by the underground transit venture he launched two years ago. Musk has advertised the proof-of-concept tunnel as a first step toward developing a high-speed subterranean network capable of whisking vehicles and pedestrians. The new tunnel was excavated…