public transit
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MTA: If Only Masked iPhone Users Could Unlock Their Phones Some Other Way
New York’s public transportation agency would like Apple to come up with some way of unlocking phones that doesn’t involve passengers lowering their masks to use Face ID, according to ABC News.
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OK Sure: Elon Musk Also Wants To Build A ‘Loop’ In Chicago
In Elon Musk’s version of a high-wire juggling act, there’s a new semi to build, a new Roadster, the Model Y, a Hyperloop system on the US east coast, tunnels in LA, a space company to run, and 450,000 orders for the Model 3 to fulfil. On Wednesday, the Tesla CEO added another item to…
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Uber And Lyft Come For Public Transportation
A new Bloomberg report details Uber and Lyft’s various partnerships with small local public transportation agencies in the US. In 2014, the local government in Pinellas Park, Florida nixed two of their least-travelled bus lines because of huge budget cuts. To compensate for that loss, the government then struck a deal with Uber to aide…
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DC’s Metro Should Probably Just Take A Few Months Off
Washington DC’s subway is scheduled to be shut down for an extended period of time to deal with a slew of deferred maintenance. But after today’s service problem — literal waterfalls in one station — maybe DC’s Metro needs a holiday sooner than that.