Saturday, January 26, 2008

1/26/08

Some permanent bus shelters expected in PSL by next school year
Fort Pierce Tribune (subscription) - Fort Pierce,FL,USA
City and school district officials are considering the shelters after a county-wide rash of accidents last fall involving school children walking to bus ...
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Storms likely through Monday
Durango Herald - Durango,CO,USA
Vehicle accidents and cars stuck in snow were the order of the day, but there was nothing major, said a Colorado State Patrol spokesman in Montrose. ...
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Kids Safety Bulletin
Wakulla.com - Crawfordville,FL,USA
School bus accidents are occuring with higher frequency. Approximately 23.5 million children ride school buses, and each year between 8500 and 17000 go to ...
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Fatal road accidents decrease by 39.58 per cent in Capital during
Associated Press of Pakistan - Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Jan 25 (APP): Road accidents significantly decreased in Capital during 2007 owing vibrant policies of traffic police and rising awareness of ...
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Kandiyohi Area Tranist bus involved in 2-vehicle accident near ...
West Central Tribune - Willmar,MN,USA
There were no passengers on the bus. This is the second time in four months that a KAT bus has been in an accident involving injuries. ...
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Railway staff blamed for train-bus collision
Hindu - Chennai,India
The CRS has also forwarded recommendations to the Centre to prevent such accidents. The report states that for the ‘C’ class manned level crossing gates ...
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List of bus shelters narrowed down to 10 in PSL
TCPalm - West Palm Beach,FL,USA
City and district officials are considering the shelters after a county-wide rash of accidents last fall involving school children walking to bus stops. ...
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21 killed in Jordan road accident: police
AFP -
AMMAN (AFP) — Twenty-one people were killed and more than 30 injured on Saturday in a bus crash on the road between the Jordanian capital and the northern ...
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20 killed in Jordan road accident: police
Africasia - London,UK
Twenty people were killed and another 30 injured on Saturday in a bus crash on the road between the Jordanian capital and the northern city of Irbid, ...
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20 dead in Jordan road crash: police
PRESS TV - Tehran,Iran
The kingdom's national centre for forensic medicine said last April that more than 98000 road accidents were recorded in 2006, averaging one every five ...
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Thailand bus crash kills 9, hurts 26
PRESS TV - Tehran,Iran
A bus packed with passengers has plunged into a ravine in western Thailand's Kanchanaburi province, killing 9 and injuring 26 others. The accident occurred ...
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OUR OPINION: Thumbs up, thumbs down
Valdosta Daily Times - Valdosta,GA,USA
Three school bus accidents in less than two months is too many. Even one accident involving our children is too many. Though the accidents were handled ...
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Bus shelters could help get kids safely to school
Palm Beach Post - FL, United States
Accidents and deaths have been caused by children crossing roads and running out into roads, he said, and by impaired drivers. He would like to see bus ...
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A charge-sheet against Sheila government
Organiser - New Delhi,India
The blue-line buses are staging dances of death on the roads. So far 115 persons have lost their lives in blue-line accidents. ...
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Blueline buses injure two more in Delhi | TwoCircles.net
New Delhi : The capital's notorious Blueline buses were at it again Wednesday. While a man was critically injured after falling from an overcrowded bus, ...

Not Guilty Plea in Fatal Ark. Bus Crash
The Associated Press -
FORREST CITY, Ark. (AP) — A not guilty plea was entered Friday on behalf of a bus driver charged with four felonies after he tested positive for ...
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Bus en route to funeral tumbles down hillside in Thailand, killing ...
The Canadian Press -
BANGKOK, Thailand - Police say a bus packed with passengers heading to a funeral tumbled down a mountain Saturday in western Thailand, killing nine people ...
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School bus takes the green route
Indianapolis Star - United States
By Andy Gammill Your kid's school bus may soon come equipped with one, a device that works much like a car battery that is being added to create hybrid ...
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Popular bus driver dies after collapsing on route
Houston Chronicle - United States
By CINDY HORSWELL The bright yellow school bus No. 71 that Linda Kaminski drove for eight years will take a special ride in her honor Monday. ...
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Bus driver disciplined leaving student on bus
MLive.com - MI,USA
A bus driver for the Grand Haven Area Public Schools has been "significantly disciplined" for not noticing a sleeping seventh-grader and leaving him ...
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Boy suspended for bringing toy gun on school bus
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
By MIKE SHERRY The Belton School District has suspended a 12-year-old boy for allegedly bringing a pistol-style toy pellet gun onto a school bus, ...
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Pedestrian struck by school bus in San Francisco
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
A pedestrian struck by a Laidlaw school bus in San Francisco's Silver Terrace neighborhood this morning suffered a leg injury, according to the California ...
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KC Council OKs bus tax measure for April vote
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
The Kansas City Council on Thursday unanimously approved an April 8 ballot measure to renew a three-eighths-cent sales tax for bus operations. ...
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Key Dates in the Dulles Rail Project
Washington Post - United States
1996 The completed study says heavy rail, such as Metro, would be the best transit option to the airport. 1997 The project team, including state, ...
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Utah Valley residents weigh in on transit plans
Deseret News - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
A group of transportation associations laid out their proposals for improvements of local transit and roadways Thursday night at Provo City Library at ...
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Westshore Wants To Use Road Fees To Fund Transit
Tampa Tribune - Tampa,FL,USA
Under the plan, a portion of the road improvement fees paid by developers in the West Shore district would be diverted to transit. ...
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CYMPO moves onto next step in transit planning
Prescott Daily Courier - Prescott,AZ,USA
PRESCOTT - Efforts toward a public transit system in the Prescott/Prescott Valley area recently suffered a delay of about a month because of a holiday ...
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Key Dates in Dulles Rail Effort
Washington Post - United States
1964: Federal Aviation Administration master plan for Dulles International Airport recommends future transit line along the airport access road. ...
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Transit system receives green light
Camrose Canadian - Alberta, Canada
The federal and provincial governments are all aboard to develop a public transit system in Camrose at a cost of $450000. Kevin Sorenson, MP for Crowfoot, ...
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Public Transit Works in Charlotte, Area Leaders Learn
WRAL.com - Raleigh,NC,USA
Transit leaders say people have embraced it and that it's averaging 12000 riders on a daily basis. Raleigh-area leaders believe they'd get the same result ...
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Audit: Utah Transit Authority heavily subsidized, less efficient ...
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
By Brandon Loomis Posted: 1:55 PM- Legislative auditors found that the Utah Transit Authority's bus service is heavily subsidized and less efficient than ...
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AC Transit Directors Table Fare Increase for More Study
Berkeley Daily Planet - Berkeley,CA,USA
By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor The AC Transit Board of Directors tabled a proposed 25 cent bus fare in-crease Wednesday night to study its implications on ...
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Transit information available on mobile phones thanks to ...
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
By Ruth McKinnie Braun THE PROBLEM: Commuters who ride Metropolitan Transit System buses and trolleys can find all kinds of useful information on its Web ...
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Bus driver let license expire
Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond,VA,USA
Williams has been a bus driver for Richmond schools for seven years, and the crash was her first incident, said Vincent Ashley, Richmond's director of pupil ...
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No untoward incidents in Ullal
Newindpress - Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India
The bus services from Ullal to city and vice versa was suspended, police sources said. As a precaution, the prohibitory orders have been extended upto ...
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Jacqui’s right to be afraid
Times Online - UK
For ordinary people in ordinary areas, incidents of petty crimes, muggings and attacks are an everyday occurrence; they may not be violent murders, ...
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Fifteen killed in road mishaps
Deccan Herald - Bangalore,India
It was a day of accidents on Saturday with at least 15 people being killed in three separate incidents across the State. In Ullal, on the outskirts of ...
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