If companies adopted work-from-home cultures, would they reduce their carbon footprints by cutting down on employee commuting, de-congesting highways to create space for effective rapid bus transport systems, and reducing need for space and energy-devouring office buildings?

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Rogoff has had an instrumental role in advising policy makers on the operating and capital needs of Amtrak, including the initiation and financing of high speed Acela service, as well as the financing of dozens of new light rail and bus rapid transit systems across the United States.

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The city needs a debate about whether to favour bus rapid-transit systems, or more expensive but faster and higher-capacity metro lines.

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Charging motorists for scarce road space, with most of the revenues being used to finance improvements in bus, rail or urban mass-transit systems, is the only sensible route to restraint.

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Old lines can be re-used as cheaper light-rail systems, or paved over and converted into bus-ways, an idea that is being tested in Northamptonshire.

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Officials feared the brackish storm water that poured into tunnels could corrode vulnerable signal and switching systems, complicating the task of reopening a bus and rail system that ferries 8.5 million passengers on a typical workday.

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The city plans to enhance services to riders in the coming year, including the application to provide bus arrival times to passengers waiting along bus routes, according to Dennis Mitchell, the advanced transportation management systems project manager with Oregon's Department of Transportation.

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Johannesburg needs to develop many crucial systems before the tournamennt begins: an IT infrastructure, a major new bus system, and its overall infrastructure, she adds.

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