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Tourmobile was a sightseeing company that operated in Washington DC from 1969 until 2011. [2] [3] The company was founded as a subsidiary of Universal Studios with three buses and grew to become an independent company carrying more than 700,000 passengers per year at $32 per ticket on its fleet of 45 vehicles. [4]
The museum, built and funded with private money, opened in 1987. In the early 1980s, Tom Mack (the African-American chairman of Tourmobile, a tourist bus company) founded the National Council of Education and Economic Development (NCEED). Mack's intention was to use the non-profit group to advance his ideas about economic development, education ...
On March 20, 2023, Capital Bikeshare launched a new version of their electric bike. [56] The new bike had a retroreflective covering and larger battery. The system planned to rollout 850 new e-bikes, bringing the total number of bikes in the system close to 7,000. [56] Capital Bikeshare began phasing out the 2020 bikes starting in August 2023. [57]
In December 2020, France 24 reported that Le Scouarnec had been sentenced to 15 years in prison after being charged in 2017 following a testimony from his neighbor's 6-year-old daughter, who was ...
Charging your phone battery to 100% consistently can damage the life of the battery over the long term. Klaus Vedfelt via Getty Images
SmartBike DC was a bicycle sharing system implemented in August 2008 with 120 bicycles and 10 automated rental locations in the central business district of Washington, D.C. The network was the first of its kind in North America, [ 1 ] but was replaced by the much larger, publicly funded Capital Bikeshare system in the fall of 2010.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump is considering merging the U.S. Agency for International Development with the State Department to boost its efficiency and ensure its spending is ...
Bike DC is a bicycle tour of Washington DC, on a closed route cleared of motorized vehicular traffic. The tour has been staged with both Fall and Spring dates, in 2010 Bike DC was held on May 23. The event consisted of a 23-mile route that started in downtown Washington and ended in Crystal City, Virginia .