Others live in train stations and under the blue-sheet tents that are spreading through Tokyo's public parks.
The Sleepbox's designers envisage the units will also be used in train stations, shopping malls and exhibition centers.
When someone wants to carry things for you in train stations, be careful.
Amtrak has been proactive in recent years in making train stations in large cities ADA compliant, said Lipp, the Open Doors executive, but the smaller, often privately owned stations, have often been slow to implement change.
Japanese candidates park their cars at intersections with heavy foot traffic and make speeches with microphones plugged into portable amps in front of some of the busiest train stations in the world.
Do not pick up newspapers and magazines that lie around in airports and train stations.
But Barron argues that much of that expenditure can be recouped from the appreciation in property around train stations.
But there are no such accommodations in airports or train stations.
Mr. CERVERO: What you find, and no great surprise, are people owning fewer cars, living in locations where they can take advantage of public transit more often, housing is being built clustered, sort of in configurations around train stations.
In countries such as France, Belgium, Switzerland, Britain and the Netherlands, chip-and-pin credit cards are often the only ones accepted at unmanned machines in subway stations, train stations, bike sharing kiosks, parking meters, gas stations, parking garages and other transportation terminals.
This is particularly desirable in places like airports, train stations and conference centers.
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When the government ordered railway companies to cut the number of trains in the metro area, office workers in central Tokyo rushed to train stations to get home.
Officials in Durban deployed teams to taxi ranks and train stations across the city to pass out 100-day badges, while in front of City Hall a pile of 100 footballs was set out, with one to be given away each day until 11 June.
The Democratic front-runners former state Rep. Robin Kelly, former U.S. Rep. Debbie Halvorson and Chicago Alderman Anthony Beale made Election Day stops at train stations and restaurants in the district that spans Chicago's South Side, south suburbs and some rural areas.
"In the cities and around train and bus stations it is still easy to find pay phones, " said Adrian Krucker of Zurich, Switzerland.
PowerKiss, which has begun similar trials in Europe, also joined the PMA recently, and may have compatible devices in place in several McDonald's restaurants and train stations throughout the continent by the second half of this year.
The idea of millions of people crisscrossing the country in every direction and manner of transportation, negotiating major airports and cathedral-like train stations, waiting for planes, trains and buses to arrive and depart, triggers in me such anxiety I want to hide.
At DFW Airport, travelers in and out of Terminal D and the Skylink train stations are greeted by a multimillion-dollar display of murals and sculpture.
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Retired musician Mr Hare said he was travelling on a London to Hastings service on 21 December and had reached Tunbridge Wells in Kent, when it was announced the train would not stop at six stations.
Mr. Walker says 142 pairs of "tube" stations are closer by foot than by train, once factoring in time spent descending to and ascending from the platform, and waiting.
Jim Cameron, chairman of a commuter group, wants officials in numerous towns to suspend parking rules to accommodate what could be tens of thousands of motorists driving to unaffected train stations.
All this meant that in the America of Edith Wharton and Henry James, travelling by train, and arriving and leaving great cities and great stations by train, was an ennobling experience and an exhilarating adventure.
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