Contractor Allegedly Tried To Bribe An Extra $52 Million Out Of Amtrak With A Purebred Puppy And Luxury Watches
The value of the gifts provided to Amtrak's project manager exceeded $325,000.
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It Only Took A $5 Raise For The FAA To See A Surge In Air Traffic Controller Applicants
The Federal Aviation Administration received over 10,000 applications for new air traffic controllers due to a recent recruiting push that involved higher pay.
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New York City's New Subway Map Is So Beautiful, So Clean
The new layout ditches the street map entirely, instead returning to the more abstracted view of the beloved 1972 map from Massimo Vignelli.
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The World's Only Active Runway With Graves Underneath Is In Georgia
In the 1940s, the land around a private graveyard was claimed by the federal government to expand military facilities, and a proposed runway ran right over it.
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New Cruise Ship Norovirus Outbreak Hits More Than 200 Passengers Aboard Queen Mary 2
224 of the 2,538 passengers aboard the cruise ship have come down with the virus, as have 17 of the crew members.
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You'll Never Experience Stress Like Towing Lawrence Stroll's Enormous Yacht Through Tiny Dutch Canals
In order to get from one Dutch city to another, the $200 million yacht was squeezed along some of the 55,000 miles of canal that you'll find in the Netherlands.
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America Has To Fix Traffic And Transportation If It Ever Wants People To Get Healthier
Our transportation infrastructure is designed to make us less healthy.
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Kite Nearly Sucked Into Landing Jet's Engine In DC
While the incident may seem harmless, the amount of harm the kite could have caused to the aircraft entirely depends on the material that the kite was made of.
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Oregon Ducks Men's Basketball Team Flying Far Enough To Circle The Planet Is The Epitome Of Air Excess
The Oregon Ducks men's basketball team flew 26,700 miles over this season, far enough to circumnavigate the planet.
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Air Travel Between Canada And U.S. Down More Than 70 Percent
July and August saw the biggest drops in bookings, which is especially bad news since those are the most popular travel months.
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Goober Pilot Forgets Passport, Forces Plane Bound For China To Turn Around Mid-Flight
Two hours into the flight from Los Angeles to Shanghai, the United Airlines 787 pulled a U-turn and was redirected to San Francisco.
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Do Highway On-Ramp Meters Actually Work? Minneapolis Turned Them All Off To Find Out
Metered highway ramps are frustrating when you're in a hurry, but do they actually work? The answer - and the drivers most likely to benefit - is complicated.
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Rivian Launches Micromobility Startup Called Also, First Product Will Be An E-Bike
Rivian's new micromobility spin-off is potentially a great idea with a terrible name.
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Boeing Fumbled Sweetheart Deal In 737 Max Fraud Case, So Now It Will Go To Court
The court has seemingly reneged on an April 11 deadline previously given to the aerospace giant to reach a deal.
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Plastic Composites Could Replace Aluminum On Planes To Speed Up Production
Boeing and its European rival Airbus are now looking to use thermoplastics to ramp up assembly times drastically for their next generation of airliners
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Those Unpaid Toll Texts You Keep Getting Are Just The Latest Scam
These scam texts have gotten so common that the FTC, FBI, state governments and even transportation departments have had to address them directly
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This Jet-Powered Sport Boat From The 1990s Looks Like A Porsche On Purpose
The "Porsche boat" 168 Boss was an attempt to bring Porsche 911 handling and style to the water.
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Happy Fourth Anniversary Of Big Boat Stuck To Those Who Celebrate
On March 23, 2021, the world awoke to an unfolding drama that would captivate and unite it as few things in history ever had: Big Boat Stuck
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The Pedal-Powered Shweeb Monorail Pod Is The Future Of Public Transit In A More Fun Alternate Universe
Shweeb was an electric-assist pedal-powered personal monorail pod last-mile public transit solution that promised to make commuting fun and easy.
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More Than 1,300 Flights Cancelled As Fire Shuts World's Second-Busiest Airport
A fire at an electricity substation near London's Heathrow Airport on Thursday cut power to the world's second busiest airport
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Cruise Urges Passengers To Turn Off Lights While Traveling Through Pirate-Infested Waters
To deter pirate attacks, Cunard Line advised passengers to turn off room lights and shut curtains at night as the vessel steamed through Southeast Asia
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Iron Maiden Chopped Up Its Massive 747 Tour Plane To Sell Off As Rock And Roll Keychains
The Boeing 747 traveled to 36 countries, and when it was ready to retire, its white bodywork was stripped away and chopped up into 12,000 special keychains
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Step Inside A Factory Building 1960s Airliners
In a new video shared by YouTube channel Boeing Classics, workers at the McDonnell Douglas show off what it took to assemble a DC-10 back in the 1960s.
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Lufthansa Offering First Class Tickets To Pound Town With New Double Suite
Lufthansa has a new solution to the isolation of first class travel: dual beds in their own little pod, all the better to join the mile-high club with.
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Frontier Wants To Be Your Southwest Rebound, But You Should Love Yourself Instead
In an effort to lure in disgruntled passengers after Southwest canceled its free bag policy, Frontier Airlines launched its own free checked bag scheme
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Train Heists Surge As Thieves Target Sneakers And Electronics
Old fashioned train heists are back with more than $4 million worth of goods stolen from a single freight train operator in California over less than two years.
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Boeing Jet Catches Fire On Colorado Runway, Passengers Evacuate Onto Wings
Twelve people were taken to the hospital after an American Airlines plane caught fire on the runway at Denver International Airport on Thursday.
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