Jetboating on the St. Lawrence/Lachine Rapids
I had a chance to meet up with one of the managers who tells me that this has become Montreal’s top tourist attraction. The shallow-draft boats for 27 years have been riding up the rapids and then careening down through the waves.
Prices are around $65 for an hour-long adventure. [...]
The first rib-like forms of Santiago Calatrava’s World Trace Center Transportation Center are rising from the giant pit at the base of Ground Zero in Manhattan. What is expected to cost more than $3 billion and will not be completed for another four years, is a graceful building that will be the transportation hub for the train station below the World Trade Center.
At approximately 5 p.m. on Monday, June 22nd, two trains crashed on the packed commuter metro Red Line near Tacoma Park, Md. The accident is the deadliest in the D.C.’s Metro’s 33-year history. Could it have been avoided?
China Eastern and Shanghai Airlines are about to merge at the behest of the government.