Questions tagged [transportation]
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Is this a ship-shipping ship, shipping shipping ships?
This image has been making the rounds on the internet, with the following caption:
This is a ship-shipping ship, shipping shipping ships.
The obvious question being: is this statement correct or is the picture photoshopped? And yes, I spent quite…
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Did Henry Ford say "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses"?
Did Henry Ford say
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
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Is public transport less fuel-efficient than cars?
Someone who is opposed towards energy saving and climate change (I did not realise they existed until I met him) has told me that public transport (buses, trains and so on) are less efficient than individual cars.
I found it difficult to believe. A…
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Do London underground drivers earn more and work less than NHS doctors?
This Facebook photo protesting the recent London underground (Tube) strikes claims that London underground drivers earn more money and have less working hours than National Health Service (NHS) doctors:
Alternate image with sources Train Drivers…
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Is the UK lorry driver shortage unrelated to Brexit? Do EU countries have equal or greater shortages?
UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps claims that Brexit is not one of the causes of the UK lorry driver shortage which is causing shortages of food in supermarkets and shortages of fuel in petrol stations.
Is he correct?
(Accepting that the driver…
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Were the emission savings of Greta Thunberg's trip by boat outweighed by crew flights?
Greta Thunberg sailed from England to New York in a yacht.
Wikipedia explains:
The trip was announced as a carbon-neutral transatlantic crossing serving as a demonstration of Thunberg's declared beliefs of the importance of reducing…
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Does rubbing a rejected coin against the ticket machine make it likelier to be accepted?
When a rapid transit ticket machine in Germany refuses to accept a coin, I've often seen the ticket-buyer scratch the same coin on the machine's metal surface before re-trying it. Some scratch with the coin's edge, some with a flat face.
It doesn't…
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Do wild dogs use trains to commute to and from Moscow?
An article in The Sun describes how wild dogs near Moscow have been living in the suburbs, yet commuting daily to the city via trains.
These complexes were used by homeless dogs as shelters, so the dogs had to move together with their houses.…
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Was Greta Thunberg unable to find a seat on an overcrowded train?
Greta Thunberg tweeted an photo of her sitting on the floor of a train, surrounded by baggage, with the text:
Traveling on overcrowded trains through Germany. And I’m finally on my way home!
According to the NY Post:
A German railway company has…
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Did China shut down a port for one COVID-19 case and did this closure have a bigger impact than the blocking of the Suez canal?
Journalist Fabian Kretschmer claimed in a DW interview (at 1m56):
For every case you have to shut down a factory, you have to shut down a port. In May, for example, they had to shut down the Yantian port near Shenzen, and that was basically the…
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Was there a Soviet anti-motorcycle-helmet campaign in the late 1950s and early 1960s?
Lessig (1995, pp. 964–965) writes:
Before the 1960s, motorcyclists in Soviet Russia did not wear helmets. In part this was because of a lack of any perceived need to wear helmets; in part it was because the Soviet economy failed to produce any…
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Are Swiss trains exceptionally punctual?
According to several people and this website, the train timings are so good in Switzerland that they use it to set their watches. (Not the other way around.)
Traveling in Switzerland is relaxing and easy; it is also legendary when time is…
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Is animal agriculture responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than transportation?
Animal agriculture is responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, more than all transportation combined.
By http://www.cowspiracy.com/facts/ from Fao.org. Spotlight: Livestock impacts on the environment.
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Did the Philadelphia Experiment ever take place?
The Philadelphia Experiment forms the basis for a claim that in 1943 the U.S. Navy attempted to use "speculative physics" to render a ship, the U.S.S. Eldridge, invisible. Allegedly, they were successful. There are some pretty detailed accounts of…
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Do blue lights on railway platforms reduce suicide?
Does the installation of blue lights at specific locations on station platforms reduce the incidence of suicide...
at that location?
using that particular method ('suicide by train')?
overall?
The references below include a paper on the subject,…
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