But it also needs to tackle its poor transport network.
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House prices would rise, the transport network would have to grow.
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The strikes have brought disruption but not paralysed the transport network.
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"Public Transport Network of Debrecen, Hungary"In short, it's an absolute disaster.
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On the ground, this means building a vast logistics and transport network.
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Canada's transport network, like its people, is squeezed along its southern border.
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It would also support a nationwide framework to support a hydrogen transport network.
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A string of crashes have further inflamed public anger over the antiquated transport network.
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Apple's new time-saving Express Transit feature is now live in London's transport network.
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Some Russians are calling it "Putin's bridge", designed to link Crimea into Russia's transport network.
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London's mayor announced a ban on junk food ads across the city's entire public transport network.
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Britain's 2005 terror attack saw 52 people killed by Islamist suicide bombers on London's transport network.
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The MTA runs the largest public transport network in the country, including the New York subway.
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A strike last Tuesday brought a large part of the Catalan transport network to a standstill.
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Madrid's public transport network will be disinfected every day as a precautionary measure, regional authorities said.
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Tanzania is not alone in the region in pumping resources to improve its air transport network.
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London has recently banned junk-food advertising on its transport network, a prohibition campaigners want to extend.
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"We're facing an exceptional episode," he told RTL radio, warding off calls to overhaul France's transport network.
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Parts of the District line have been suspended; the remainder of London's transport network is running smoothly.
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Moreover, organisers were limited in their choice of colours by the existing palette of London's transport network.
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LONDON — For people with hidden illnesses, London's public transport network isn't always the friendliest place to be.
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Our offices are 3-D and dense, but we then have a 2-D road transport network.
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New dams have turned the country into an electricity exporter and it has a rapidly expanding transport network.
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But for some, adapting the existing transport network will not entirely solve Barcelona's traffic and air pollution problems.
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This is not Citymapper's first experiment with extending London's existing public transport network with some commercially routed additions.
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STA Travel and London's transport network have also begun to cut ties with businesses owned by the sultanate.
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The Washington region is highly dependent on the Metro, the country's second-biggest transport network after New York.
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London's transport network (TfL) says it's working closely with Apple to enable a new Apple Pay Express Transit feature.
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But Indian coal has a high ash content, and the transport network struggles to bring it to power plants.
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For example, we are studying data and vehiclesharing services to play our part to optimise Singapore's overall transport network.
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China runs the world's longest high-speed rail line and is looking to build its own supersonic transport network.
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China runs the world's longest high-speed rail line and is itself looking to build its own supersonic transport network.
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Most of the destruction is in rural areas, though the rains caused Mumbai's transport network to come to a standstill.
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Israel is a high-tech powerhouse but years of underinvestment and bungled state management have left its transport network lagging.
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The storm knocked out Ireland's entire public transport network, closing its airports and leaving roads "extremely dangerous," the government said.
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The 5-Star Movement has long opposed the project, arguing that Italy should focus on upgrading the existing transport network.
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Being able to reliably demonstrate this should improve commercial revenue, which can then be reinvested back into the transport network.
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Meanwhile, Toe Aung envisions a single institution empowered to oversee the appendages of Yangon's transport network, including its circular railway.
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China already runs the world's longest high-speed rail line and is itself looking to build a supersonic transport network.
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According to local reports, at least 250 people were injured from slipping, and Japan's famously efficient transport network also suffered delays.
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Lime says it's been working with local authorities in Sydney to make sure they can weave into the existing transport network.
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Nash's insights also help to explain why adding a road to a transport network can make journey times longer on average.
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While Indianapolis lacks subways, light rail or a sophisticated urban transport network, the city is crisscrossed with bike and walking trails.
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Much like Apple Pay, you'll also be able to use Android Pay to travel on London's transport network, which includes the Tube.
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The Paris urban transport network reported severe delays on all its tram, bus and metro routes, according to state-owned operator RATP.
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China Mobile flipped the switch on its Huawei-powered 5G transport network late last month, with commercial rollout expected to begin in October.
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Firms would be encouraged to relocate from Beijing to Hebei and Tianjin by introducing unified regulations, social services and an integrated transport network.
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His idea of a "Northern Powerhouse" would boost the north of England with a big new transport network that better connects the region.
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In January, Eurotunnel said it was taking steps to ensure that a no-deal Brexit would have minimum impact on its transport network.
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The plan aims to connect Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa with a vast logistics and transport network, and involves 65 countries.
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"We will formulate a more detailed plan for the region's transport network and will increase our investment in these areas," he told reporters.
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The nails carry the same radio frequency identification (RFID) chip that allows you to enter and exit the London transport network and top up.
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The Indiana Toll Road is a vital transport network in the U.S. and one that gets about around 50 million vehicle transactions per year.
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The region has a developed infrastructure transport network, which together with cheaper land cost, may attract new businesses or relocations from the Madrid area.
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Drones, which Amazon is testing, may also help get goods to Australia's hard-to-reach areas without relying on an inconsistent regional transport network.
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A strike by public sector workers over the past week has crippled France's transport network, closed schools and forced the cancellation of some flights.
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The Paris urban transport network was experiencing severe delays on all its tram, bus and metro routes, according to the state-owned operator RATP.
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Founder Bakri was banished from Britain in 303 after four young British Muslims carried out suicide bomb attacks on London's transport network killing 52 passengers.
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Adverts for virtual coins or ways to trade them have appeared everywhere from London's transport network to Japanese television as demand for them has soared.
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APRIL 2016 - CDPQ Infra announces plans for a new integrated public transport network linking downtown Montreal, South Shore, West Island, North Shore and the airport.
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"Shell believes electric vehicles will form a material part of the transport network going forward," Jane Lindsay-Green, Shell UK future fuels manager, told reporters.
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On Monday, Grab said it will invest with SoftBank to create a transport network for Indonesia based on electric vehicles and develop geo-mapping technology.
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Prime time TV advertising subsequently fell, billboards on Tokyo's transport network were cut back and online companies are responding with changes to their advertising policies.
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The volume of "green bonds" with proceeds earmarked for investments such as a wind farm or a low carbon transport network nearly doubled in 2140.
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Wang called for Poland and China to strengthen their coordination in a number of issues, including taking greater advantage of the Silk Road transport network.
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The Oyster card I use to traverse the London transport network is based on contactless technology, so I just tap in and out at every station.
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These include a large number of non-metros, where autos are an important way of getting around, in the absence of a robust public transport network.
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Haydon provided unusually extensive details of last Saturday's attack, the deadliest in London since suicide bombers killed 2623 people on the city's transport network in 2005.
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Daimler and Bosch said the pilot will help provide information about how self-driving vehicles can be integrated into a complex transport network offering multiple choices.
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Since the auto section of the bridge linking Crimea to Russia's transport network was unveiled in May, it has been used by 1.5 million tourists, Golodets said.
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While home to a sprawling public transport network, cycling in London can still be an incredibly dangerous – and sometimes deadly – undertaking when compared to other European cities.
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The region's transport network suffered considerable damage with one tunnel caved in, a highway bridge damaged, roads blocked by landslips and train services halted, Japanese media reported.
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IN PARTS of New York city, if you know what to look for, you will find a vast and quasi-legal transport network operating in plain sight.
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Over the past week, travel agents, London's transport network and finance houses were among a rising number of companies to cut ties with businesses owned by Brunei.
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Glencore said its North Queensland operations were continuing and that it was monitoring the transport network situation, while MMG said it was considering the use of trucks.
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The Channel Tunnel operator Eurotunnel said last month it was taking steps to ensure that any 'no-deal' Brexit would have minimal impact on its transport network.
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It also recently acquired rival travel planner startup, Rome2Rio — beefing up its global transport network with transport search and discovery options for more than 10M locations worldwide.
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Transport for London (TfL), which is responsible for London's transport system, removed adverts promoting Brunei as a tourism destination from the city's public transport network last month.
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Ms Dick was in command of a botched operation that led to the killing of an innocent man after the terrorist attacks on London's transport network in 2005.
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The normally efficient and orderly city has seen its transport network besieged and shut down by demonstrators, while protests have shut big-brand stores and popular shopping malls.
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The normally efficient and orderly city has seen its transport network besieged and closed down by demonstrators and big-brand stores and popular shopping malls have been shut.
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The Manchester bombing was the deadliest attack in Britain since July 2005, when four British Muslim suicide bombers killed 52 people in coordinated attacks on London's transport network.
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The ministry also said it expected further pressure on the transport network from stronger-than-usual winter and spring demand for freight transport for coal, grain and fertilizer.
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The region's transport network suffered considerable damage with one tunnel caved in, a highway bridge damaged, roads cut or blocked by landslips and train services halted, media reported.
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PARIS, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Channel Tunnel operator Eurotunnel said it was taking steps to ensure that any 'no-deal' Brexit would have minimal impact on its transport network.
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A representative of the RATP urban transport network said plans were being made to ensure enough trains to get tens of thousands of soccer fans to their destination.
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But for those 2-3 mile commutes from the train station to your destination — which will inevitably happen, despite that dense transport network — the e-scooter is ideal.
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Chinese officials are quick to say that New York has a model public transport network, albeit one they aspire to emulate more closely in some respects than others.
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The start-up, which is reportedly valued at more than $60 billion, has also launched other features using its vast transport network such as UberEATS, its food delivery service.
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The city's major transport network MTR suspended all of its operations after demonstrators vandalized a number of areas within Hong Kong -- from train stations to shopping malls and banks.
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Less than a week after Ant Financial announced adding QR codes to the city's MTR public transport network of rail, Tencent's WeChat Pay unveiled a similar scheme on Wednesday.
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While "Baby on board" badges are used by thousands of people on the London transport network, an equivalent for people with hidden disabilities, conditions and illnesses has been missing.
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One room, known as "The Cave," integrates existing and future modes of transport into its computer modeling, testing exactly how Dubai's transport network will cope with increasingly diverse demands.
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan has said many construction workers are still using the transport network to commute, meaning work must stop to prevent them gathering in a confined space.
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But the rural roads are so rough that they can't drive fast for fear of snapping axles, and the city's poorly designed transport network is frequently snarled with traffic.
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But those same Londoners are also quietly impressed by the way Transport for London runs the capital's transport network — you can tell, because they don't constantly grumble about it.
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IL&FS's subsidiaries include transport network builder IL&FS Transportation Networks Ltd, engineering and procurement company IL&FS Engineering and Construction Co Ltd and financier IL&FS Financial Services Ltd.
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Critics say 5-Star has made little if any progress since taking office in resolving Rome's myriad problems, including a decrepit transport network, pot-holed roads and inefficient garbage service.
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Announced back in 2013, the China's "new silk road," as it's commonly known, aims to connect Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa with a vast logistics and transport network.
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Biggest perks: Top-tier wine region; wealthy autonomous region; tech start-ups supported by healthy grant system; reliable transport; network of bike paths; surrounded by scenic resorts and ski slopes.
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Recently completed projects include Switzerland's Gotthard rail tunnel, the world's longest and deepest rail tunnel, that goes through the Alps as part of the core trans-European transport network (TEN-T).
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The Manchester bombing on May 22 was the deadliest attack in Britain since July 2005, when four British Muslim suicide bombers killed 52 people in coordinated assaults on London's transport network.
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The Manchester bombing on May 22 was the deadliest attack in Britain since July 2005, when four British Muslim suicide bombers killed 52 people in coordinated attacks on London's transport network.
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Yet the various rail authorities cannot agree to close Teesside Airport rail, preferring to retain a zombie station that has come to symbolize some of the dysfunctions of Britain's transport network.
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Apple says the feature is now enabled in all zones of London's transport network, and it will work across all Transport for London (TfL) services like the Underground, buses, and trams.
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London Underground, known to locals as "the Tube," is used by 1.3 billion passengers per year and was found in 2017 to be the "dirtiest" branch of the UK capital's transport network.
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Unlike at previous Games, there will not be an Olympic Park, so with venues spread out across the city, planners have been forced to work around an already densely packed transport network.
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Raggi's many critics say she has made little if any progress since taking office in resolving Rome's myriad problems, including a decrepit transport network, pot-holed roads and an inefficient garbage service.
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Documents obtained by Politico's Capital New York showed that concerns about high temperatures on the city's transport network were raised by a panel spearheaded by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in 2014.
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The government also wants to create an integrated transport network and unify standards in areas such as welfare and education to make Hebei, known for its heavy industry, more attractive for investors.
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"There are no plans to close down the transport network in London, and there is zero prospect of any restriction being placed on travelling in or out of London," the representative said.
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Grab said it plans to work with its new investor "to create a more efficient transport network that will ease traffic congestion in Southeast Asia's megacities" and help its drivers increase their income.
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Leaks are nothing new Following the 2005 terror attack on the London transport network in which 52 victims were killed, U.S. media published an unseen image of an explosive used in the attack.
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"In London specifically, the Metropolitan Police Service has mobilised additional officers, who will carry out highly visible patrols at key locations around the capital including the transport network," Rowley said in a statement.
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German railway giant Deutsche Bahn is working on adding autonomous cars to its transport network as a way of getting riders to and from the train station — the last mile, so to speak.
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The partnership between NuTonomy and Grab is "a step towards supplementing Singapore's transport network with an innovative driverless commuting option for underserved areas of Singapore," said Grab CEO Anthony Tan in a statement.
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Transport For London (TfL), which is responsible for London's transport system, said it was removing adverts promoting Brunei as a tourism destination from the city's public transport network due to "great public sensitivity".
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"In London specifically, the Metropolitan Police Service has mobilized additional officers, who will carry out highly visible patrols at key locations around the capital including the transport network," Rowley said in a statement.
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Among U.S. stocks making big moves Wednesday, Air Transport Services jumped $1.883, or 17 percent, to $13.73 after turning in solid results and saying it will operate an air transport network for Amazon.
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The embassy this week deplored what it described as the "ubiquitous monitoring" of Chinese nationals on Moscow's public transport network in a formal complaint sent to local authorities and leaked to Russian media.
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The embassy this week deplored what it described as the "ubiquitous monitoring" of Chinese nationals on Moscow's public transport network in a formal complaint sent to local authorities and leaked to Russian media.
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The suicide bombing at a packed concert in Manchester was the deadliest attack in Britain since July 2005, when four British Muslim suicide bombers killed 52 people in coordinated attacks on London's transport network.
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According to John Miles, eFIS's boss, the firm expects to start servicing a second route in Milton Keynes soon, adding two more charging pads and 11 electric buses to the town's public-transport network.
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The plan aims to connect Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa with a vast logistics and transport network, using roads, ports, railway tracks, pipelines, airports, transnational electric grids and even fiber optic lines.
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The initiative aims to connect Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa with a vast logistics and transport network, using roads, ports, railway tracks, pipelines, airports, transnational electric grids and even fiber optic lines.
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NAVYA said that over the next two years, its autonomous shuttles will be fully integrated within Lyon's public transport network, and will provide a regular, daily service through certain key routes in the city.
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Chile, like neighboring Argentina, is trying to attract private investment to improve its ports, roads and airports, and two major candidates in November's presidential election have also pledged to dramatically expand the nation's transport network.
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His remarks were seen as a setback for the 5-Star, the largest party in the ruling coalition, which has long opposed the project arguing that Italy should focus on upgrading the existing transport network.
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Transport for London, which runs the capital's transport network, later confirmed that the strike, which had threatened to shut down the entire network used by more than four million people a day, had been suspended.
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Infrastructure projects Nigeria's transport network is due for a boost with the launch of the Abuja Light Rail network, which President Muhammadu Buhari has declared "21.9% complete," covering 22017 stations over a 2373-mile route.
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The hardline CGT union sought to tighten its grip on France's energy supplies and transport network on Thursday as its stand-off with the government over planned labour reforms continued into a day of nationwide protests.
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Despite recent woes with breakdowns on Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) lines, the public transport network is still largely efficient, and the government continues to expand the rail network and provide bus contracting subsidies to enhance capacity.
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Two weeks of nationwide industrial action against Macron's pension reform, which would scrap special pensions for many public sector staff and make people work to 64 to draw a full pension, have crippled France's transport network.
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Grab, with its app on more than 160 million mobile devices across eight countries, has said its Indonesia investment aims to build a next-generation transport network and transform how critical services such as healthcare are delivered.
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At the forthcoming forum, China is likely to emphasise links between the belt-and-road programme and other infrastructure projects that have been launched independently of it, such as a new transport network around Baku in Azerbaijan.
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Commuters using the UK capital's publicly funded transport network who do not want their movements being tracked will have to switch off their wi-fi, or else put their phone in airplane mode when using the network.
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When the full night-time Tube service is running, an extra 100 police officers will be deployed on the transport network each night, at an annual cost of £3.4m; more coppers will patrol around the main stations.
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GOLD COAST, Australia (Reuters) - Gold Coast organizers apologized on Thursday after the public transport network failed its first major test of the Commonwealth Games, causing long delays for ticket-holders traveling to and from the opening ceremony.
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Discussions have been held in Downing Street about restricting travel in and out of the city, including shutting down parts of the capital's public transport network, and about how those measures would be enforced, the sources said.
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Famed for disrupting the autos sector with all-electric cars, billionaire Musk is also renowned for his futuristic ambitions to build a city on Mars, create a 700-mile-per-hour transport network and develop flying cars.
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But if the unions are able to draw more people out of the workplace, the strike which has crippled the transport network, closed schools and forced the cancellation of some flights could run for days, or longer.
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The Belt and Road Initiative aims to connect Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa with a vast logistics and transport network, using roads, ports, railway tracks, pipelines, airports, transnational electric grids and even fiber optic lines.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France's hardline CGT union sought to choke off power and fuel supplies and hamper the public transport network on Thursday in a showdown with a government that flatly refused to withdraw a contested labour law reform.
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Air France KLM said the "yellow vest" protests, which have been marred by violence and disrupted shopping areas and the transport network, were estimated to have had a negative revenue impact of around 15 million euros ($17 million).
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We believe that SDVs are a complementary service and an innovative solution to enhance the efficiency of Singapore's land transport network, particularly where additional first-mile and last-mile connectivity is needed — as well as in underserved neighborhoods.
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Steel and concrete fade into sylvan trails that wind past lakes and waterfalls, all of it not too far from the city's cavernous and efficient airport, part of a renowned transport network of subways, buses, trams and ferries.
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Transport for London (TfL), which regulates and operates the transport network in one of the world's richest cities, stunned the taxi-app firm last week when it said it would not renew its license after the end of September.
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As for retailers, the launch list includes 11 brands, including drugstore chain Boots, Costa Coffee, Waitrose and Starbucks, as well as the London transport network to let people use Android Pay on the Tube network, buses and city trains.
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"London is home to the world's most iconic public transport network, and we're excited to now provide live transit information in the Uber app," said Jamie Heywood, Uber's regional general manager for Northern and Eastern Europe, in a statement.
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In addition to the deaths, at least 133 people were injured when the two trains collided in the coastal city on Friday, the latest in a string of crashes on an antiquated transport network that have outraged the public.
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As much as Macron is wooing China, Beijing is also reaching out to Europe through its ambitious Belt and Road Initiative that aims to connect Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa with a vast logistics and transport network.
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Mitie, which employs 53,000 people to work with central government, the national health service and across the transport network, warned on profits three times last year, blaming uncertainty around Britain's decision to leave the European Union and the higher costs.
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A blast of Siberian cold dubbed "the Beast from the East" combined with Storm Emma's arrival from the south to ground planes, shut schools and in Ireland, knock out the entire public transport network with weather rarely seen in either country.
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"It's clear that advertising plays a huge part in the choices we make, whether we realize it or not, and Londoners have shown overwhelming support for a ban on adverts for junk food and drink on our transport network," he said.
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For example, the regional transport network has avoided Afghanistan and the enthusiasts for a New Silk Road or One Belt, One Road haven't absorbed that the world is avoiding Afghanistan not out of stupidity but out of hard-won experience.
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PARIS, May 26 (Reuters) - The hardline CGT union sought to tighten its grip on France's energy supplies and transport network on Thursday as its stand-off with the government over planned labour reforms continued into a day of nationwide protests.
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That is, experts said most of the deal-making will likely happen in sectors aligned with the Belt and Road Initiative — China's massive plan to connect Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa with a vast logistics and transport network.
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"This landmark tech partnership is a step towards supplementing Singapore's transport network with an innovative driverless commuting option for underserved areas of Singapore — all accessible through the Grab app," Grab CEO and co-founder Anthony Tan said in a statement.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Air France said it expected to operate around 75 percent of its flights on Tuesday, the first day of a strike that will coincide with a larger stoppage on the rail network, paralyzing much of France's transport network.
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It is part of a global effort by the online retailer to build an air, sea and land transport network to help it offer faster deliveries and try to contain shipping costs, which have steadily increased as a percentage of sales.
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Prevent has long been the most controversial strand of the government's attempts to stop Britons from becoming involved in violent extremism following its introduction in the wake of the July 2005 suicide bombings by four British Islamists on London's transport network.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Bahrain-based Gulf International Bank's investment banking arm has been hired by the Saudi city of Jeddah as a financial adviser on a bridge project, the first stage of a larger multi-billion-dollar public transport network in the city.
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"Zhengzhou sits at the centre of a vast rail, highway and air transport network that forms the linchpin of China's development plans for its central and western regions," said Mr Fernandes, who has been trying to enter the Chinese market for years.
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The massive plan — which analysts are still struggling to quantify — aims to connect Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa with a vast logistics and transport network, using roads, ports, railway tracks, pipelines, airports, transnational electric grids and even fiber optic lines.
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MONTREAL/TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian pension fund Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec said on Friday that it would invest C$3 billion ($2.37 billion) in a new public transport network in Montreal, the third-largest of its kind in the world.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Air France grounded just under a third of flights on Saturday as staff staged a walkout over pay, and travelers also braced for a fresh wave of train strikes starting later in the day, crippling much of France's transport network.
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Envisaged as the new backbone of Britain's national transport network, the 345 miles of new track are designed to slash journey times and add capacity, allowing the UK to catch up with much of Europe which already has high-speed rail links.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Travel agents, London's transport network and finance houses were among a rising number of companies on Friday to cut ties with businesses owned by Brunei to protest over the Sultanate's introduction of the death penalty for gay sex and adultery.
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"It's clear that advertising plays a huge part in the choices we make, whether we realize it or not, and Londoners have shown overwhelming support for a ban on adverts for junk food and drink on our transport network," he said in a statement.
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In January, Eurotunnel said it was taking steps to ensure that a no-deal Brexit would have minimum impact on its transport network and in February Getlink said it had spent 13 million euros in Brexit preparations in 2018 and so far in 2019.
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Liu was specifically addressing concerns about China's Belt and Road Initiative, which aims to connect Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa with a vast logistics and transport network, using roads, ports, railway tracks, pipelines, airports, transnational electric grids and even fiber optic lines.
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"This (reduced first-half expectation) is partly due to slower-than-anticipated productivity improvements in our Contract Logistics and Warehousing business and the short term adverse effect on the operational efficiency of our transport network from exiting, in early March, a problematic contract," the company said.
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Essentially, we have a 210-D ... our offices are 210-D and dense, but we then have a 1003-D road transport network, so it's ... And everyone would just go in and out of the buildings at the same time, so, naturally, you're going to have traffic.
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While specifics remain obscure, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta confirmed in a statement Thursday that an agreement with a "French consortium" had been reached on a series of major works to boost Kenya's transport network, including the construction of a commuter rail line linking the Kenyan capital with its central railway station.
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" This statement could be taken as a mere promise that it might happen in the future, but TfL is being even clearer on its Twitter account, noting that the company is "working closely with Apple to allow the benefits of this update to be introduced on London's transport network in the coming months.
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And while Oyster cards have been superseded for many Londoners by the transport network adding support for paying with contactless bank cards (which are very common in the UK), an embeddable contactless tech that would enable users to tap to pay without needing to also have a bank account potentially opens up contactless payments to groups that might be excluded, such as children, refugees and the homeless.
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The source, however, added that the plan was still "nascent" and "won't be ripe enough" to be announced when the two leaders meet in the U.S. China's multibillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative aims to connect Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa with a vast logistics and transport network, using roads, ports, railway tracks, pipelines, airports, transnational electric grids and even fiber optic lines.
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Spending plans announced include: £2 billion for technology and science research and development; £2.3 billion housing infrastructure fund, aiming to build 100,218 new homes in areas of high demand; £22.1 billion to fund 21.4,22017 affordable homes; £21.7 billion of investment in the English transport network; £22018 million into roads nationally; £20193 million into developing digital signalling on railways; £22019 million investing in low emission vehicles and self-driving cars; £220 billion+ for 22020G and a full fibre network across Britain.
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