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Friday, April 27, 2007
A Concrete Plan to Speed Up Buses in Traffic, It is springtime in New York and everywhere bulbs are blooming. Daffodils. Crocuses. Bus bulbs. Bus bulbs? In a program intended to help buses move more speedily down the traffic-and-construction-clogged streets of lower Broadway, the city is building a series of extensions to the sidewalk that should make it easier for buses to load and unload. More >>
Sunday, April 22, 2007
A Rail Line Drives Development in Utah, MURRAY CITY, Utah -- Two years ago, this Salt Lake City suburb began collaborating with a local developer to turn industrial land into a neighborhood of town homes, condominiums and offices. Now the project, known as Birkhill at Fireclay, is finally being built. More >>
Monday, April 16, 2007
Model of urban future: Jersey City?, JERSEY CITY -- Once, this was a city of browns and grays. Railroads owned a third of the land, and trains rumbled night and day to the cacophonous riverfront. Factories belched fumes and leaked chemicals. "Nobody cared," says Bob Leach, born here in 1937. "Smoke meant jobs." More >>
Monday, April 16, 2007
ConocoPhillips, Tyson to make biodiesel fuel from fat, NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Oil company ConocoPhillips (COP) and meat producer Tyson Foods (TSN) plan to work together to produce biodiesel from animal fat, the companies said Monday. Beef, pork and chicken fat from Tyson rendering plants will be processed at ConocoPhillips refineries to create transportation fuel. More >>
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