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Live In A Small US City? Get Ready To Train, Plane, Bus, Boat, Walk & Do It All Over Again

8:01 pm in air travel. fuel efficiency, Business & Politics, Cars & Transportation, iron mountain, trains, usa, wisconsin by TreeHugger

paul bunyan budget cutter photoCutting the budget with a Paul Bunyan-style axe. Image credit:Wikipedia, Akeley MN Paul Bunyan sculpture. DELTA Airlines has announced it will stop serving twenty four (24) small US cities. With fuel costs so high, these small, rural airports with passenger "load factors" between 12% and 63% will be waving goodbye to Delta. Some of the small airports Delta will stop serving currently receive hundreds of thousands per year in "Essential Air Service" subsidies from the Federal government. It's ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Copper Theft Rises 67%, Causing Major Disruption to Britain’s Railways

8:09 am in Business & Politics, Cars & Transportation, recycling, trains, transportation, united kingdom by TreeHugger

copper theft railways photo Image credit: Sam_catch, used under Creative Commons license. While Belgian trains get a boost from a massive 2-mile solar tunnel, the reality for British rail operators is a whole lot more mundane. It seems the country's railways are being hit by copper theft on an endemic scale, and it's beginning to be a major disruption to services. In fact, staff are noting a significant rise in incidents in just the last few...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Massive Solar Tunnel Gives Trains a Boost (Video)

2:06 pm in belgium, Cars & Transportation, renewable energy, solar, solar power, trains, united kingdom by TreeHugger

belgian solar tunnel photo Image credit: SPS2900 The 2 gigantic solar farms just launched in France are part of a much wider push for large-scale solar and renewables going on in Europe right now. In fact, the same company responsible for these farms has today unveiled a huge 1MW solar tunnel that will protect trains from falling trees (reducing the need for tree felling), and provide power to one of Belgium's most important railway stations in the process. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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