The 220-mile train trip from New York to Boston, for instance, emits the same amount of CO2 as is stored in 2.5 cubic feet of mangrove forests.
For example, public transport is expensive: a one-way ten-kilometre (six-mile) train ride from suburban Oslo into the city costs NKr26, which is twice as much as the road toll.
Much of the work is expected to be carried out at night, with a so-called factory train laying a mile of new track and cables every night once construction is underway.
The 140-mile-per-hour train is a core part of London's Olympic transportation plans.
In fact, her living quarters on the mile-long Ringling Brothers train that transports the show around the country is sufficiently diminutive that when she finishes books she ships them home.
Our train averaged 185 miles per hour during the 923-mile trip from Shanghai to Beijing.
Construction in that area has reduced the number of active train tracks from four to two over a seven-mile stretch there since March 2012.
The four-carriage train was driven out of the depot for about a mile until it jumped the tracks, becoming wedged into a three-storey building.
When Kim McGowan, co-founder of the new sale-tracking Web site Markdown Alert, was commuting to and from her office in Philadelphia, she walked nearly a mile each way from the train station to her office--and always in her office shoes.
On the eve of the public launch, a special train carrying 500 VIPs made the three-and-a-half-mile journey.
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The two parks are to be connected by a 30-mile highway, as well as a high-speed train that will run every five minutes and transport more than 86, 000 passengers a day.
In addition to clearing a 1.1-mile security zone around the bomb, authorities plan to shut down train traffic Sunday along the country's busy Rhine stretch.
Use that sugar buzz to walk east a mile, under the clackety El train tracks, through downtown's money-spinning core, to the Art Institute of Chicago (111 S Michigan Ave).
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