A traveling family of illegal immigrants awaiting transportation from France to England on a heavy goods vehicle are said to be 'delighted' at the government's announcement that it has temporarily relaxed the legal restrictions on the length of time...
A remarkable tale of survival against all the odds has emerged, amidst the absolute chaos that the UK's transport network has descended into. A local man, Arthur Crapper, has been found sitting in the waiting room of the snowbound railway station,...
London - SEG -way: SAYG-way. Verb: To proceed without interruption; to make a smooth transition Example: I was having a pint at the 1802 over at Canary Wharf with my mate, Cliff, talking about the EU economy and Italy's plans to raise between 5.5 billion euros and 8 billion euros by selling debt maturing in 2012, 2017 and 2020 and the implication on the Italian automotive industry - imparticula...
The owner of the Segway company, James Heselden, has passed, apparently in an accident involving a yet to be named experimental vehicle, known only as X33. The body of James Heselden was pulled from a River in England on Sunday. A Segway-type veh...
. . . a car? Well, sort of. It's actually a plane AND a car. It's called the Terrafugia, the flying car, and it may actually be on the market next year. Spoof reporter Gail Farrelly has gotten access to company records, which identify four specific groups being targeted as potential customers: 1. Celebs, who often have to make a quick getaway from the paparazzi. No longer will there...
Rather than wait for the ash to clear, one British airline has shipped its entire airplanes, loaded with cargo, on container ships. During the Icelandic ash trauma several cargo airplanes were stranded in Amsterdam destined for the Middle East.
The Department of Transportation in Ohio, ODOT, and the state have been looking in to the feasibility of high speed transportation between Cleveland in the Northern part of the state and Cincinnati in the Southern part, and numerous stops in between.
Travelling doesn't look like such a good idea this Easter as strike action is set to cause widespread disruption across the UK. BA are all set to replace cabin crew with ground staff and are advising travellers to expect substandard services on fl...
Barstow CA: The $15 billion Pelosi High Speed Transit Intrastate Train System (PHSTITS) first four car passenger train, carrying all 435 House Members and 100 Senators, left Barstow CA for Death Valley National Park CA. The train was pulled by an...
The Secretary of State for Transport announced today that all London Buses were to be replaced with Rickshaws by the 2012 Olympics. Lord Adonis, on the advice of his Minister of State for Transport, Sadiq Khan, today unveiled the blueprint for th...
In a madcap bid to save the planet (and shorten the dole queue) Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has backed an audacious plan to ban all motorised vehicles from UK City Centres. The plan, developed by the IPCC, is to make use of the thousands of rick...
The maiden voyage of this special bus on Fifth Avenue in New York City did not turn out as harassment free as planned, when two of the -- um, ladies -- had an argument about which of them had gotten the better bargain at Saks Fifth Avenue. Pow!...
Yesterday, a new cost saving initiative to remove drivers from the London Tram network was unveiled. A spokesman explained, "The principle is much like an old Hornby train set. A five year old boy sits on top of a high tower where he has total vi...
Geoff Hoon the Secretary of State for Transport was forced to apologise to the house this morning after a disastrous mix up in a secret Government laboratory in Croydon. Due to a spelling error by a junior staff member the Human Genome Cloning pro...
Most of the UK ground to a halt yesterday when a mild breeze caused gridlock on the transport system, forcing schools and businesses to shut. The Met Office says that it had issued a warning of a low to moderate breeze, but some sources say that c...
A department of transport efficiency drive has driven efficiency to an all time low, which some members in parliament are saying is more than likely inefficient. The transport efficiency drive cost taxpayers 81 million pounds when it was supposed...
A new high-speed rail link is being installed in Heathrow to help take the pressure off intercity flights and add a more 'green' aspect to air travel. The "Heathrow high-speed rail link" as it will be called, will operate between Terminal 1 and Te...
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