We can improve the flow of Muni vehicles and increase on time performance by implementing Bus Rapid Transit lanes on congested corridors, and synchronizing traffic lights on major transit corridors for buses and light rail to give them priority.
"Our priority... is to accelerate the transfer from road to rail and to give an alternative to short-haul air travel," said Jean-Marie Guillemot from the RFF, the body that runs France's rail infrastructure.
I accept, as one should, that the MoS's total is bolstered by 67,000 bulk sales (the copies sold at fraction of their cover price to enable airports, airlines and rail companies to give them away free).
And it would be remiss of me to fail to mention that the Mail on Sunday's headline sale includes some 71,000 bulk sales (the copies sold at fraction of their cover price to enable airports, airlines and rail companies to give them away free).
As from the 1990s, the European Union encouraged the progressive opening to competition of waterway, road and rail transport to give concrete form to the principle of free movement between European countries and the single market rules, and to increase the efficiency of the various modes of transport.
We advised the rail authority to give voters the ability to decide for themselves, with all the financial pros and cons on the table, whether this project was worthy.
The trip to the border, five hours by car, takes three times as long by rail, with stops to give way to more important trains.
In France, a near fully publicly owned rail system managed to give its passengers fares far lower than the UK for almost exactly the same amount of public rail subsidy between 1996 and 2010.
"In France, a near fully publicly owned rail system manages to give its passengers fares, which are far lower than the UK, for almost exactly the same amount of public rail subsidy between 1996 and 2010", the report declared.
