The reality would have been horrendous traffic and transportation problems and the lifeless alienation of surrounding communities.
For example, the Cuban government has decentralized the production and distribution of milk and has ordered new buses from China to ease major transportation problems.
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To cite just one, in an era of increasingly gridlocked urban airports and inadequate service to many rural communities following airline deregulation, the V-22 promises cost-effective solutions to intractable transportation problems.
Incredible as it may seem, however, in his recent, 126-page Statement of National Transportation Policy -- much of which was devoted to addressing the critical aviation-related infrastructure problems -- Secretary of Transportation Sam Skinner made but two passing references to the contribution tiltrotor technology could make to solving such problems.
Deborah Webb Henderson Cook has kept her son at home on the Lower East Side because she has few transportation options and her own health problems.
The National Transportation Safety Board is also asking how problems with the aircraft's lithium-ion battery system that led to a fire aboard one plane and smoke in another escaped the notice of regulators and company officials who certified the plane's safety.
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To date, 8.1 million vehicles worldwide have been recalled by the manufacturer, with the possibility of more to come after Thursday's announcement by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration of a formal investigation into brake problems with the 2010 Prius.
The city's transportation agency, Transport for London, reported moderate traffic problems Wednesday morning as the rules went into effect.
After a long day of studying data, including slope angles, solar energy, weather and powder patterns and nearby transportation facilities, Mr. Mathews occasionally goes to bed pondering problems and wakes up with solutions.
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Every new airplane is going to have these kinds of "teething problems, " said John Goglia, a former National Transportation Safety Board member and former airline mechanic.
Such widespread problems as power and telecommunications outages, interruptions in air transportation and commercial distribution networks are considered not only possible but likely, says the Gartner Group.
"The 787, being a new airplane, does have teething problems, " John Goglia, a former member of the National Transportation Safety Board, told CNN.
"The 787, being a new airplane, does have teething problems, " John Goglia, a former member of the National Transportation Safety Board, told CNN last week.
National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Peter Knudson said the agency made the request after recently becoming aware of battery problems at ANA that occurred before a Jan. 7 battery fire in a 787 parked at Boston's Logan International Airport.
The executive summary of the 2001 Minnesota Department of Transportation report -- undertaken by the University of Minnesota's Department of Civil Engineering -- points to fatigue problems with the bridge's approach span, the segments that connect the main span of the bridge to land.
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