Mules on the towpath along the canal could pull a heavy barge at a clip of 4 miles per hour – far faster than the job of dragging wagons over primitive roads.
—
Christine Keiner,
The Conversation,
15 Oct. 2025
The Chinese investment aims to modernize the 1,156-mile (1,860-kilometer) rail track, locomotives, passenger coaches, and wagons.
But the lack of big American automobiles in Japan might be linked to more practical reasons, including local tastes and the conditions and size of roads.
—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
28 Oct. 2025
And the e-bike and non-e-bike both have to coexist with automobiles in the right of way.
—
Ashley Mackin Solomon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Oct. 2025
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