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Monthly Archives: June 2025
“Whoosh” – Autonomous Gondolas vs Robo-taxis
A New Zealand-based company, Whoosh Solutions, is building a new kind of urban transit system – a network of overhead fixed cables that are used by self-driving battery-powered gondolas to go from point to point. They can switch from one … Continue reading
The Most Exciting Day in the History of Arlington MA
… was April 19, 1775, and that was plenty! That’s when the Regulars (both sides thought of themselves as British) retreated down Concord Road (now Massachusetts Avenue) from the Battle of Lexington and Concord. They had gone out there to … Continue reading
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