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Cleveland City Planners Change Policies to Create 15-Minute City

The Truth About Cars

Cleveland, Ohio, has approved new zoning and transportation policies that are angling to transform it into the next “fifteen-minute city,” The City Planning Commission voted to move forward with changes to building codes in several pilot neighborhoods it wants to make more pedestrian friendly.

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San Francisco selects BAE Systems Series-ER for 68 transit buses for Green Bus Zones

Green Car Congress

This technology helps San Francisco get one step closer to full zero emissions operations, improving the health of the city’s environment and its residents. The nine green zones are located in population-dense neighborhoods most affected by air pollution. But the path to zero for each city is unique, so the company is getting creative.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

Yen Meng Jiin/Singapore Press/AP Tan, the third of six brothers, was born and raised in a kampung (village) in the neighborhood of Geylang, Singapore. An appeals court in the United Kingdom, however, was not persuaded, and Trek lost its patent there in 2008. Meanwhile, worldwide sales of computer equipment had started to boom.

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