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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden’s sweeping $2.3 trillion plan to rebuild America’s crumbling infrastructure proposes doubling federal funding for mass transit and spending $80 billion to expand and modernize passenger rail service.
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about his $2 trillion infrastructure plan during an event to tout the plan at Carpenters Pittsburgh Training Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S., March 31, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Public transit systems have suffered through the COVID-19 pandemic as tens of millions of Americans worked from home and curbed business and tourism travel. Many avoided subways and buses due to health concerns over traveling in confined spaces.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Volkswagen AG’s U.S. unit apologized on Wednesday after a false statement it issued about a name change was widely slammed on social media.
FILE PHOTO: A Volkswagen logo is show with an American flag at a car dealership in Carlsbad, California, U.S., September 23, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
The company acknowledged that the false announcement - claiming it would rename its U.S. operations as ‘Voltswagen of America’ - had “upset some people and we are sorry about any confusion this has caused.”
The stunt, which came just ahead of April Fool’s Day on the first of the month, when companies often release prank statements, was meant to call attention to its electric vehicle efforts, the carmaker said.
MUMBAI: German automaker Volkswagen made a splash on social media when it announced Tuesday its US operations would be rechristened as "Voltswagen" . The rebranding move apparently was in lieu of its all-electric ID.4 SUV roll-out in the US earlier this month. The American division of the automobile manufacturer put up a press release on its media site stating that Volkswagen
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