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2 unusual facts about rush hour


Rush hour

Road pricing is being considered but has not been introduced, partly because the expressway fee is already very high.

Because of Cleveland's compact size, most people can be in Downtown Cleveland within 10–45 minutes.


Alamein railway line

The line is operated as a shuttle service between Camberwell and Alamein stations during off-peak periods, while trains run the whole distance to Flinders Street Station during peak hours.

Attack of the Grey Lantern

The video notoriously featured the band throwing £25,000 in five pound notes onto the main concourse of London's Liverpool Street station during rush hour and watching the ensuing chaos.

I Am Jackie Chan

I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action is a 1998 Autobiography book written by Jackie Chan with help from Jeff Yang, written before Jackie Chan's success Rush Hour–a special edition of the book was released in 1999 telling events occurring after Jackie's success with the movie.

Immortal Combat

The plot involves an East-meets-West buddy scenario similar to what the Rush Hour franchise became, starring martial artist Sonny Chiba, wrestler Roddy Piper, Meg Foster and Tiny Lister.

Ken Leung

Kenneth "Ken" Leung (born January 21, 1970) is an American actor who is best known for his role as Miles Straume in the ABC television series Lost and roles in such films as Shanghai Kiss, Rush Hour, X-Men: The Last Stand, and Saw.

Muscle Heat

The action scenes were choreographed by two men from Jackie Chan's stunt team, Chan Man Chin (Rumble in the Bronx, Rush Hour), and Sam Won (Thunderbolt, Supercop).

Nob Yoshigahara

Perhaps best known as a puzzle inventor, he commercially licensed his designs, such as the Rush Hour puzzle game, to companies including Binary Arts (now known as ThinkFun), Ishi Press, and Hanayama Toys.

PSPACE-complete

Examples of games that are PSPACE-complete (when generalized so that they can be played on an n × n board) are the games hex and Reversi and the solitaire games Rush Hour, Mahjong, Atomix, and Sokoban.


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Avon, Connecticut

As the most direct path to Hartford from much of the Farmington Valley and Litchfield County, rush hour on the mountain is notoriously dangerous.

Bayers Lake Business Park

The park is also serviced by Metro Transit buses: 21 Timberlea, 23 Timberlea (rush hour only at St. Margarets Bay Rd and Lakelands Blvd), and 52 Crosstown.

Brooklyn Army Terminal

New York Water Taxi's Rockaway/Sandy Hook beach service formerly linked the 58th Street Pier at Brooklyn Army Terminal to Pier 11/Wall Street, the East 34th Street Ferry Landing, the Sandy Hook Bay Marina, and/or Riis Landing during the rush hour and on summer weekends.

Cinema AZN

Cinema AZN mixed popular entertainment, informed reporting, and featured some of Asia's biggest stars such as Tony Leung (2046), Stephen Chow (Kung Fu Hustle), Amitabh Bachchan, Zhang Ziyi (Hero, Memoirs of a Geisha) and Joan Chen (Saving Face); and major filmmakers such as Wong Kar-wai, Hayao Miyazaki, Jackie Chan (Rush Hour, Rush Hour 2 and Rush Hour 3), Zhang Yimou and Im Kwon-Taek.

Ernest Maas

He also was the first to film the almost unbelievable crush of commuters during the rush hour at New York's Grand Central Station.

Greater Hartford

Commuter rail on the same line is proposed, with rush-hour service centered on Hartford and a shuttle to Bradley International Airport from the Windsor Locks station.

Hobart Ferry Services

Ferry services operate daily by Hobart Water Taxis;Departing Motor Yacht Club of Tasmania at 7.55am, Departing Montagu Bay at 8.00am Departing Bellerive Wharf at 8.15 am; Departing Watermans Dock in Hobart at 5.15 pm; express river crossing services for commuters in morning and evening rush hour from Motor Yacht Club of Tasmania Montagu Bay Jetty Bellerive Wharf to Sullivans Cove, Watermans Dock and return.

Island Pacific Academy

The first college-preparatory school located in Kapolei, it saves many parents from the morning rush hour traffic to downtown Honolulu, where most of O'ahu's other college-preparatory schools are located.

John Paul Oulu

Oulu was shot and killed while sitting in rush hour traffic in Nairobi on March 5, 2009 along with lawyer and founder of the Oscar Foundation, Oscar Kamau Kingara.

Juan Camilo Mouriño

Interior Minister Juan Camilo Mouriño was in a SEGOB-owned Learjet 45 that crashed into rush hour Mexico City traffic on November 4, 2008, killing all eight people on board.

Less Than an Hour

"Less Than an Hour (Theme from Rush Hour 3)" is a 2007 song by rapper Nas and singer Cee-Lo.

OC Transpo Route 95

Route 99, previously running from Blair Station to Bayshore Station (and rush hour trips to Kanata North Business Park) for over 25 years, was renumbered to route 101 and extended to Orléans to allow residents to travel to the west end of the city (such as Bayshore Station) without traveling through downtown.

Seibu Ikebukuro Line

:Morning rush hour from Hannō to Ikebukuro, daytime to and from Hannō to Motomachi-Chūkagai via the Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin LineTōkyū Tōyoko Line and Minatomirai Lines.

Sunshine Coast Line

On Mon-Fri, trains to and from Clacton on sea also call at Colchester Town, Hythe, Great Bentley and Alresford and Weeley during rush hour.

The Rush Hour Triple M

The Rush Hour Triple M is an Australian Drive radio show with James Brayshaw and Billy Brownless.

ThinkFun

Rush Hour, invented by Nob Yoshigahara, was a traffic-jam themed board game with 40 puzzles ranging in difficulty from beginner to expert.

Westminster motorcycle parking charge

On 16 April 2010, local councillor Daniel Hamilton (for the Englefield Green East ward of the borough of Runnymede), having had his journey to work delayed by half an hour by a No To Bike Parking Tax rush-hour "go slow", called the demonstrators "tossers" on his Twitter account.