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America's fastest growing metropolis isn't pretty - but it's thriving
2015-03-14 21:14:59| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
At the intersection of the Loop and Freeway 225, two motorways in the south-east of the city, you drive over a high, tangled overpass. To the east, where the port of Houston sits on Buffalo Bayou, the skyline is an endless mass of refineries, warehouses and factories: Houston is an oil town.
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Revenge of the Megaprojects: Revived Metropolis Megaproject is on a Tear in South Park
2014-12-30 01:54:44| Real Estate - Topix.net
The good news just keeps coming for the massive, multi-tower Metropolis project near LA Live, which until this year had been stalling off and on since as far back as the 1980s. Over the summer, construction started on a 38-story condo tower and 19-story hotel ; now we hear that the second stage of development , which will include more than 500 condos in a 40-story tower , broke ground earlier this month.
Alstom Metropolis Trains
2014-10-17 01:00:00| Railway Technology
Manufactured by Alstom, the Metropolis trains are flexible and reliable high-tech rolling stock, which will serve 22 major cities, including New York, Paris, Barcelona, Amsterdam, London, Chennai and Singapore.
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Drought plagues Brazils richest metropolis
2014-10-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Agricultural losses are no longer the most visible effect of the drought plaguing Brazil's most developed region. Now the energy crisis and the threat of water shortages in the city of So Paulo are painful reminders of just how dependent Brazilians are on regular rainfall. Nine million of the 21 million inhabitants of Greater So Paulo are waiting for the completion of the upgrading of the Cantareira system, made up of six reservoirs linked by 48 km of tunnels and canals, which can no longer...
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SuperVia receives first Metropolis metro train from Alstom
2014-01-16 01:00:00| Railway Technology
Rio de Janeiro state railway operator SuperVia has received the first of the ten Metropolis metro trains from Alstom.
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