All aboard!Do you like to travel? It doesn't necessarily mean hopping in a car. Environmentalists encourage the use of mass transit mass transit, public transportation systems designed to move large numbers of passengers. Types and Advantages Mass transit refers to municipal or regional public shared transportation, such as buses, streetcars, and ferries, open to all on a whenever possible. That means using trains and buses rather than individual vehicles. If you're going to travel by train or bus, you need to know how to read a timetable. Timetables can seem confusing at first, but once you get used to the setup, you can read even the most complicated ones. The timetable below was adapted from a real one. It is for a bus route with connections to railroad railroad or railway, form of transportation most commonly consisting of steel rails, called tracks, on which freight cars, passenger cars, and other rolling stock are drawn by one locomotive or more. stations. Study the timetable, including the end notes. Then answer the questions. Hint: The left side of the table shows times for buses that begin in Davenport, Iowa Davenport is a city in the American state of Iowa that borders the Mississippi River. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 98,359. A 2006 estimate tells that the city had grown slightly to 99,514. , and end in Danville, Illinois  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled to prevent sock puppets of currently blocked or banned users from editing it. . It should be read top
to bottom. The right side is for buses that begin in Danville and end in
Davenport Davenport, city (1990 pop. 95,333), seat of Scott co., E central Iowa, on the Mississippi River; inc. 1836. Bridges connect it with the Illinois cities of Rock Island and Moline; the three communities and neighboring Bettendorf, Iowa, are known as the Quad Cities. . It should be read bottom to top.
Motorcoach Connections
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Daily Daily arrow] Bus Stops arrow] Daily Daily
4 15P Dp Davenport, IA Ar 7 55P
4 35P Moline, IL 7 35P
1 10p 5 25P Galesburg, IL 12 55P 6 45P
2 10P 6 30P Peoria Airport, IL 11 55A 5 55P
3 00 7 25P Bloomington- 4 45P
Normal, IL
4 20P 8 SSP Champaign-Urbana, 9 55A 3 30P
IL
4 55P 9 40P Ar Danville, IL Dp 9 00A 2 35P
The motorcoach services above connect with Amtrak trains:
at Galesburg-with trains 3, 4, 5, and 6
at Bloomington-Normal-with trains 300-307, 21, and 22
at Champaign-Urbana-with trains 58, 59, 390-393
Amtrak and buses use same stations.
Source: Amtrak
QUESTIONS 1. If you lived in Moline, Illinois Moline is a city located in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States. Moline's population is 43,768, as of the 2000 census. Moline is one of the Quad Cities, along with neighboring Rock Island and the Iowa cities of Davenport and Bettendorf. , and wanted to catch train #58, where would you get off the bus? 2. How many buses a day travel that route? 3. How long is the evening bus ride from Peoria Airport to Danville? 4. Passengers on train #22 who want to reach Galesburg would get off the train at which station? 5. What time would their bus leave? 6. What time would it reach Galesburg? 7. If you got off a train in Danville at 10 a.m., how long would you have to wait for a bus to Champaign-Urbana? 8. Your aunt is on train #391. Which bus (time and place) would you tell her to catch to visit you in Davenport? 9. How do the arrows help you read the timetable? 10. Timetables often show a.m. hours [midnight to noon] in lightface light·face n. A typeface or font of characters having relatively thin, light lines. light  faced and p.m. hours [noon to midnight] in boldface See boldface font. . How does this
help the user?
ANSWERS 1. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois 2. one (leaving Moline at 4:35 p.m.) 3. 3 hours, 10 minutes [6:30 p.m. to 9:40 p.m.] 4. Bloomington-Normal, Illinois Bloomington-Normal refers to the twin municipalities of Bloomington and Normal in McLean County, in Central Illinois. The combined population of the two communities in a special census in 2006 was 125,000. 5. 4:45 p.m. 6. 6:45 p.m. 7. 4 hours, 35 minutes [10 a.m. to 2:35 p.m.] 8. the 3:30 p.m. bus from Champaign-Urbana 9. They remind you to read the left-side times from top to bottom and the right-side times from bottom to top. 10. It makes it easier to find what you're looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. . If you want to catch a morning bus, you can ignore all the boldface times. |
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