Gridlock over Gotham

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from USA Today:





"I've had incredible delays," says Green, a consultant from St. Petersburg, Fla., who visits New York on business at least eight times a year. "I remember one night we didn't get there until 3 a.m., and I had to be in front of a customer at 8. I travel everywhere, every week, and it's the only place I go that I truly dread."

For airlines, the skies over the New York City metropolitan area are the most sought after in the U.S.— and the most crowded. With roughly a third of all flights in the nation flying to, from or through the New York area, congestion there can lead to rippling delays that ground planes and frustrate passengers from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C.

Recognizing the critical role New York plays, federal and local officials are taking a series of steps to keep air traffic moving. New flight lanes are being carved in the skies, runways are being widened and limits are maintained on the number of flights that can take off and land at the region's three major airports: LaGuardia, JFK and Newark.

Work also continues on the satellite-based navigation system known as NextGen that's ultimately supposed to make room for more planes to fly safely in tight space across the nation's air traffic network. ..................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://travel.usatoday.com/flights/story/2012-01-30/Skies-over-New-York-remain-gridlocked/52893264/1


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TGV Sud-Est reduced the travelling time Paris–Lyon from almost four to about two hours. The rail market share rose from 49 to 72 %. For air and road traffic, the market shares shrunk from 31 to 7 % and from 29 to 21 %, respectively. On the Madrid–Sevilla relation, the AVE connection rose the rail market share from 16 to 52 ; air traffic shrunk from 40 to 13 %; road traffic from 44 to 36 %, hence the rail market amounted to 80% of the combined rail and air traffic.[46] This figure increased to 89% in 2009, according to the Spanish rail operator RENFE ........................

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail