Sunday, January 15th, 2012
The sprawling station, which dates to the 1890s, serves not only the AVE, or Alta Velocidad Espanola high-speed trains, but also the city’s metro subway and commuter trains. It sits amid a bustling district of offices, hotels, restaurants, museums and other businesses. Read More
Thursday, September 15th, 2011
For weary commuters fed up with the long journey to work, the answer often seems to be to move closer to the workplace. But a new service, Mapumental, shows that it’s often just as quick or even speedier to travel into city centres from the suburbs. Mapumental, a tech start up founded by mySociety, allows househunters to see,
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
Bombardier China, a branch of Canada‘s Bombardier, a manufacturer of rail equipment and aircraft, is one of the most successful foreign companies in the rail business in China, it did notget there overnight, according to its chief executive. “We went through a step-by-step process in China, not a leapfrog process,” said ZhangJianwei, its president, describing how they went from one person and zero business. Read More
