the city doubled. there were horses and horse and buggy was was the travel there are street cars and elevated res no subways but the cycle came along. has been something that special specialized riders but safety bicycles came along and the mass started to ride. the bicycle became the most popular form of conveyance. people who had just relied on the slow moving horse and buggy world had a way to get around cleanly, fast, very efficient, and for a lot of people this was their own form of independence, around this time, for example, a woman who has writing about suffrage, wrote a biograph called how i learn to ride the biffle. so gives you a sense of the new world of the bicycle and the most popular sport at this time was cycling. much more so than baseball, for example. if you wants to see fast-moving sport you went to one of the men bell dreams and there were white races and black dominated race but to the main races were dominated by white riders. major taylor had been bo
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employees will be trained. 29% of commuter railroads will be installed by the end of 2015. and full implementations is predict jekted by 2020. they will finalize enforcement for those railroads that will miss the deadline. as for any regulatory enforcement posture our goal is to bring railroad news compliance as quickly and safely as possible. starting on january 1st, fra will impose penalties on railroads that have not implemented ptc and fines will be based on penalty guidelines which establish different penalties based on violations and will be assessed per violation, per day. the total amount of penalty each railroad faces depends on the amount of penalty progress the railroad has made and fra is planning for what will come after the january 1st deadline. in both 2014 and 2015 the department and fra asked congress to provide fra with additional authorities that would address the safety gap that will exist on many railroads between january 1, 2016, and each railroad full p
that was pretty much complete. but that is really mostly under a private operation. amtrak doesn t know not part of the line. i m telling you they don t own it. i know. it is interesting that they could get it done. okay, let s go to the act and administrator. here she is back for money again. the last question i asked, how many wrestlers have been given since 2012 in the first answer last year and then we got to three. is it still three loans since 2012? yes sir. however many of those were for ppc? one. you can say 33%. sounds more impressive. good idea. let s go back to her communication sky. there was 1000 backlogs. i thought there was many as 20,000 applications. we understand that their total deployment would be approximately what is your number of applications and what is your backlog at this point? we have reviewed 8300. we have no backlog. they are all improved in your expecting more. i gave you credit me for your average processing was 2000
and world business report. va va voom the press are at the geneva motor show taking in the latest models but despite record sales profitability remains low in europe we find out why. and economic gloom for brazil as its set to reveal another year of recession. politicians promise it will end but it s already led to misery for millions of brazilians. welcome to world business report. i m sally bundock. also in the programme shop shut we tell you why one of south korea s leading retailers is forced to close several stores. details in a moment. but first, european carmakers are gathered in geneva for the annual motor show and they are celebrating record breaking sales figures. more than 15 million cars were sold in europe last year that s the best result since the financial crisis. but a sneaky peak under the bonnet of the continent s automakers reveals a different story. yesterday, general motors sold its european businesses to the psa group that s the company which o