This week they refused to sell grain and livestock, and blocked roads to stop them being transported, to try to make Congress cut export taxes.
Philip Hammond, the transport secretary in England, has urged transport operators to try to prevent a repeat of recent delays across the road and rail network and the closure of Gatwick airport.
As well as the latest "Get Ahead of the Games" transport campaign to try to prepare businesses and the public for potential bottlenecks during the Games, the IOC will also be updated on the plans for the last phase of the sometimes controversial ticketing process.
For the past three years, the 10 councils in Greater Manchester have been co-ordinating their economic development, regeneration and transport functions to try and map out a long-term plan for sustainable, balanced economic growth.
Their bodies were transported in to try and identify whether two insurgents, believed to be responsible for the deaths of six Royal Military Police the previous year, were among the dead.
The cost, time and unreliability of the public transport were important reasons why participants who lived further from the workplace chose to use their car, and 'park and walk' , rather than use the public transport system: 'Public transport for me to try and get here is horrid.
Up to 400 poppy sellers have taken up posts at transport hubs across London to try to break the record for the most money raised in a single day.
But the aim of performance shouldn't be to try to transport us to another time or to simulate cultural conditions that are not our own.
