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Every day we find transit news that is relevant and useful to you. But if you missed these daily posts on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest and Linkedin, you can find them all here in one place each week!<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s what happened in the transit world last week:<\/p>\n
Library in Bus Opens at Knowle West School<\/a><\/p>\n When this small school didn’t have enough dedicated library space in its building, they turned a red double decker bus into a library. that even has wifi.\u00a0\u00a0 They kids sure seem to love it!<\/p>\n First Driver-less Shuttle Bus Hits Public Roads<\/a><\/p>\n The WePods <\/a>driverless bus had a test run on public roads last week.\u00a0 It goes a maximum speed of 25 kilometres and will soon have cameras, lasers, GPS and radar.<\/p>\n This Story of a Bus Driver’s Act of Kindness is Cheering up Ireland<\/a><\/p>\n A bus driver’s simple act of tying an elderly woman’s shoelace has inspired many people to be more kind.\u00a0\u00a0 William Harris of Bus \u00c9ireann in Cork, Ireland <\/a>also inspired people to share stories of other bus driver who had done kind deeds. \u00a0 We want to hear lots more of these stories for Transit Driver Appreciation Day on March 18th.\u00a0 Check back here for the chance to nominate your bus driver for a prize.<\/p>\n Rockville Takes a Fresh Look at Bus Transit<\/a><\/p>\n While this is specific to the city of Rockville, it does bring up some areas that are challenges for many bus companies.\u00a0 How smaller companies can compliment, rather than compete, with the larger routes.\u00a0 making long-range plans, the cost of tunnels, and securing funding.<\/p>\n Communters Praise ‘Best Ever’ Train Driver Who Conducts Morning Quiz Over the Tannoy<\/a><\/p>\n This train driver makes the morning commute fun for his riders by telling jokes and asking quiz questions over the PA system of the train.\u00a0 Passengers tweet the answers to the quiz questions with the hashtag #timetunneltrain.<\/p>\n Record Budget for Israel Railways<\/a><\/p>\n Israel now has a budget of 2.3 billion shekels to improve electrification, provide new signalling, and increase the number of passenger trains in the country.<\/p>\n Royal Mail’s Secret Underground Railway to Open to the British Public<\/a><\/p>\n The railway use d to transport 4 million parcels a day.\u00a0 Now it is being reopened as a heritage site by the Heritage Lottery Fund.<\/p>\n Hyperloop: MIT Students Win Contest to Design Elon Musk’s 700mph Travel Pods<\/a><\/p>\n The Hyperloop is a ground transport concept that will connect people from one major city to another.\u00a0 MIT and other top ranking teams will build their pods and test them at the first Hyperloop test track.<\/p>\n 5 Ideas we Need to Steal from Mega cities that Have Great Subways<\/a><\/p>\n From rethinking traffic design to better technology to more sustainability, some cities are doing a great job with public transit.<\/p>\n World Economic Forum’s 10 Commandments to Deal with the Urban Mobility Challenge<\/a><\/p>\n Changing demographics and social preferences are changing the needs of urban mobility.\u00a0 Communication, leveraging existing infrastructure, mobility grids and more ideas to help “people meet their needs in the most efficient and effective ways possible.”<\/p>\n![\"Transit](\"https:\/\/addtransit.com\/images\/blog\/Transit-News.jpg\")
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