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Car parking fringe benefits

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Extra-legal parking services usually occur if an employer offers a parking space for an employee and all the following conditions are met: the car is parked on a site owned or rented by the supplier or otherwise under the control of the supplier (usually the employer) the car is parked for more than four hours a day between 7:00 am and 7:00 pm the car belongs to an employee, is rented or is under his control or provided by the employer a parking space is provided for the employment of the employee the car is parked that day in or near the employee's main workplace the car is used by the employee at least once that day to travel between home and work (or work and home) there is a commercial parking station which charges a parking fee all day within one kilometer of the area where the car is parked and rates for commercial parking all day exceed the car parking threshold, e at the beginning of the FBT year, the costs for the commercial parking station all day were above t

The Bus Is Still Best

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A recent conference in which I attended presented a panel entitled "Microtransit: the fight against congestion". Microtransit: it seems that a genius has reduced public transportation in a laboratory, making it cute. In some cases, reducing vehicles is a good idea. Cities do not have space for everyone's car. With shared electric scooters and improved access to bicycles, people find new ways to move around without taking up much more space than their body. So it is true that even reducing transit may be a good idea, perhaps on small vehicles that come to your door upon request. But this is not the case. The best way to attract most people to a city efficiently and economically is not as sexy or high-tech: they are fixed route buses.

Red dot sights on pistols for patrol officers: Policy and training considerations

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Since the inception of the first electric police car in Akron, Ohio, in 1899, technology has been a driver for the law enforcement profession. It went quickly to 2019 and technology continues to improve the ability for an officer to perform duties, with particular attention to improving efficiency and ease of use. Advancement in observation systems has enabled officers to improve their ability to use their firearms - single-service revolvers with their vision integrated into the plethora of options currently available for semi-automatic vision-containing machines. adjustable, tritium and optical fibers. Changes in iron visor systems have improved the ability of users to see and follow their views, but they have not proposed a method to change the way their eyes see the scene and the threat itself; agents were still exiled to a target system, a face and a face. Place the red dot sight (RDS) in front of the guns. In particular, the red dot service views that withstand the rigors o

Chinese Car Billionaire Li Sets Sights on ‘Supersonic’ Trains

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Chinese billionaire Li Shufu has expanded its automotive empire over the past decade with the purchase of Volvo, a stake in Daimler AG and a startup that builds flying cars. Now he wants to reinvent the high-speed train. On Tuesday, Li's Zhejiang Geely Holding group signed an agreement with China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp. to build "supersonic trains" using local technology. Under the Pact, the two companies will combine their expertise to focus on developing what they call the next generation of vehicles and mobility technology. To continue reading this article, you must be a subscriber to Bloomberg News. Try 3 months for $ 105 6. Cancel at any time.