Tuesday, February 12, 2008

2/12/08

NJ Transit Investigates After Death on Tracks
New York Times - United States
By KEN BELSON New Jersey Transit suspended all scheduled repair work on Monday, one day after a track welder was struck and killed by a train in the first ...
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Charge filed in Federal Way transit center shooting
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
18 at the
Federal Way Transit Center. Court papers filed Monday say that 20-year-old Glenn Chaz Proctor of Tacoma fired at two brothers on a pedestrian ...
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Study Bares Transit Woes in New Jersey
New York Times - United States
New Jersey Transit received $702.5 million in direct state support in fiscal 2005, equal to about $2.88 a trip, or less than the price of a gallon of gas, ...
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GMC moving forward on transit, work force issues
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
The Greater Milwaukee Committee will focus in 2008 on finding funding for regional transit, work to ensure that the local pool of employees match area ...
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Former Kemah mayor proposes METRO transit giveaway
blogHOUSTON - TX, United States
Just about everyone involved in Houston's mobility dialogue agrees that an increase in transit ridership would be a good thing. Yet, for years our transit ...
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City, county agree to form transit authority
Charlottesville Daily Progress - Charlottesville,VA,USA
Next year the two localities will ask the General Asse-mbly for permission to establish the new transit body, which would have the power to levy fees and ...
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Regional Transit Embarks on "DNA" Project
News10.net - Sacramento,CA,USA
Rather,
Sacramento's Regional Transit is planning to build a Downtown/Natomas/Airport extension of light rail. The project, which would take nine years and ...
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Public Transit Receives More Than $600000 From Governments
Jamestown Post Journal - Jamestown,NY,USA
By Dennis Phillips dphillips@post-journal.com 2/12/2008 - Nine new buses will join the Chautauqua Area Rural Transit System this year thanks to $632160 in ...
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Curbing transit reviews a step on road to better way
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
So when news came late last week that Premier Dalton McGuinty and his cabinet have decided to limit the environmental assessment process on transit projects ...
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Transit Oriented Developments Reinventing Suburban Downtowns
Oak Brook Business Ledger - Oak Brook,IL,USA
Increasingly popular Transit Oriented Developments have become an urban planner’s dream come true in various suburbs here, revitalizing once sleepy ...
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Madison City Council's Rhodes-Conway Champions Mass Transit
By rss@masstransitmag.com (By Mary Yeater...
Satya Rhodes-Conway's ideas about how to improve Metro matter, especially now when the quality of Madison's bus system is so much a part of the regional transit authority (RTA) referendum debates.
MassTransitMag.com: Top Transit News - http://www.masstransitmag.com

Metro Unveils 'Green' Transit Facility, Transportation Agency’s ...
Metro marks a major milestone in sustainable development with the opening of its first green building located in the hub of the San Gabriel Valley adjacent to the El Monte Transit Center. The eco-friendly three-story 45515-square-foot ...
News & Information - http://www.metro.net/news_info/default.htm

New Jersey Transit Corp. Selects Intergraph for Public Safety ...
Intergraph's Emergency Incident Response, Planning and Reporting Solutions to Advance Response and Prevention Efforts for Nation's Third Largest Transit System.
GISDevelopment News - http://www.gisdevelopment.net/

Good news for transit funding
By brent(brent)
Now, it looks like we may finally get the opportunity to at least locally vote on whether we can levy a $.0025 sales tax on ourselves for transit funding. Based on previous discussions with
Athens Transit, a transit-dedicated sales tax ...
BikeAthens Blog - http://bikeathens.blogspot.com/

Charge filed in Federal Way transit center shooting
SEATTLE (AP) -- King County prosecutors have filed a second-degree murder charge against a man accused of shooting a woman Jan. 18 at the Federal Way Transit Center. Court papers filed Monday say that 20-year-old Glenn Chaz Proctor of ...
Columbian.com State News Feed - http://www.columbian.com/news/rss

'Russian roulette' for bus passengers
NEWS.com.au - Australia
A total of 2005 drivers have been sent for retraining since 2003 due to incidents, unsafe driving, incompetence or customer service issues, according to ...
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Student wants bus drivers to hang up
Fort McMurray Today - Fort McMurray,Alberta,Canada
Conroy said he hasn’t seen or heard of any close calls or incidents involving city buses with talkative drivers, but he feels it’s only a matter of time. ...
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In Britain, Attacks on a Surprising Group: Firefighters
New York Times - United States
... incidents, which firefighters in two British towns are trying to counter with the “spit kits” that are also gaining in popularity among train and bus ...
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Significant Regulatory Activity
Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
The main sticking point seems to be incidents that surface due to reports by other than flight-crews (cabin staff, groundcrew, ATC). ...
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Monday, February 11th 2008
FortBendNow - Richmond,TX,USA
All assault cases listed involved domestic incidents. (Read More) Detectives are still investigating two incidents at the Exxon station at 4225, ...
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No Dudes on the Bus in Mexico City: A Case of "Positive ...
By Matthew E. Kahn(Matthew E. Kahn)
There are more reports of sexual incidents on the subways, with roughly one a day filed with the authorities. But Mexican officials believe those figures do not reflect the full extent of the problem. ...
Environmental and Urban Economics - http://greeneconomics.blogspot.com/

The deadly side of bus bike racks
By www.fengi.com("This...is Grand.")
It's a grim reminder bus drivers can zone out and a bit of distrust is healthy when near the wheels. Someone recently posted asking why people get off at the front of the bus instead of the back. It's incidents like this which leads ...
Doors open on the left... - http://community.livejournal.com/chicago_el/

Traffic got slower last fall
Motorists last fall had to deal with 18 percent more rush-house incidents and 6 percent more traffic, though they got a reprieve with 40 percent fewer construction zones and not much additional rain. REPORT (3 pages) ...
Move It! - http://blogs.mysanantonio.com/weblogs/traffic/

District not taking bus incident seriously - Opinion and Column ...
District not taking bus incident seriously. Posted by Jackson Citizen Patriot February 11, 2008 08:01AM. Categories: Voice of the People ...

Cameroon: North West - GTHS Kumbo School Bus Burns down
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The Government Technical High School bus on
the 26th of January 2008 left Kumbo for Baham village in West Province . Its mission was to convey a delegation ...
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Six hurt as roof ripped from bus
BBC News - UK
Six people were injured when a double decker bus crashed into a bridge in north
London. The bus had been diverted along Prince of Wales Road because of a ...
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Nirula's launches 'Buddy Bus' for underprivileged kids
India PRwire (Press Release) - Gurgaon,Haryana,India
Fast-food restaurant chain Nirula's Monday unveiled its 'Buddy Bus', a red painted bus that will bring underprivileged children every week from various NGOs ...
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Police say bus driver bought beer while waiting for Red Oak school ...
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
A bus driver responsible for transporting a Red Oak school district tennis team has been accused of buying and drinking alcohol while on duty. ...
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Passengers on bus to Calgary may have been exposed to TB, health ...
Globe and Mail - Canada
VANCOUVER -- Passengers on a Greyhound bus travelling from Vancouver to Calgary on Jan. 11 may have been exposed to tuberculosis and should be tested, ...
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Students, Driver Injured When School Bus, Truck Collide
Hartford Courant - United States
The driver of the bus was the most seriously injured. She was sent to
Hartford Hospital , police said, where she was in stable condition Monday night. ...
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Bus crashes on I-81, sending 7 to hospitals
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
BINGHAMTON, NY - A Greyhound bus veered off Interstate 81 and struck a tree, sending seven people to local hospitals with minor injuries. ...
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Bus passenger stable after crash
BBC News - UK
A man who suffered serious head injuries when a double decker bus crashed into a railway bridge is in a stable condition in hospital. ...
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Stage bus operators urged to solve problems professionally
Malaysia Star - Malaysia
By MAZWIN NIK ANIS PUTRAJAYA: The operator of the RapidKL and Rapid Penang stage bus services have been warned to "keep their house in order" and not let ...
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Nigeria: Shomolu Residents Want Pedestrian Bridge At Aladiye Bus Stop
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Residents of Shomolu area of Lagos today appealed to the state government to construct a pedestrian bridge at the popular Aladiye Bus Stop to save them from ...
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Woman goes missing during bus tour
By The Mainichi Newspapers(The Mainichi Newspapers)
TAKASAKI, Gunma -- A woman remained missing Tuesday afternoon after disappearing during a bus tour on Monday, police said.
Japan National News - http://mdn.mainichi.jp/national/

500 residents back call to re-route bus
A TORY councillor has won support from more than 500 residents with a call for a bus service to return to its original route.
Echo | South Essex news - http://www.echo-news.co.uk

Bus travel deal may cut costs
By Ian Harvey
Bus travel looks set to become a third cheaper for 16 to 18 year olds in south Shropshire if a new discount card scheme is agreed at a full council meeting due to be held this week.
Shropshire Star » News: - http://www.shropshirestar.com

Set picture added for Knight Bus (4755-1)
By Peeron.com
Theme: LEGO / SYSTEM / Harry Potter / Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Year: 2004 Pcs: 242 Figs: 2 MSRP: $30.00.
Recent News from Peeron.com - http://peeron.com/

Senior bus, City Rider merging
Kokomo seniors and disabled residents might not notice any changes immediately, but the city’s senior bus service is about to undergo a management change.
- http://www.kokomotribune.com

Two kids hit in separate Plant City accidents
MyFox Tampa Bay - Tampa,FL,USA
According to investigators, a 7-year-old boy was waiting for his school bus on the west side of Sam Allen Road . They say as the bus slowed down to stop, ...
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Techie, TD leader killed in accidents
Hindu - Chennai,India
A software engineer died after the motorcycle he was riding was knocked down by a RTC bus on a road-over-bridge in Bollarum on Sunday. ...
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Two road deaths in 24 hours
Gold Coast News - Molendinar,Queensland,Australia
A 30-year-old woman was killed when her car and a school bus collided at Bangalow yesterday in one of two fatal accidents on northern NSW roads.
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Two serious road accidents reported Monday in Bulgaria
Focus News - Sofia,Bulgaria
In another crash a bus with workers onboard fell from a bridge near the northern
village of Stokite, wounding 7 people. The incident happened on Monday ...
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20 DIE IN CRASH
Modern Ghana - Ghana
... condition when the bus ran into a tipper truck with registration number ER 4894C at Pong Tamale off the Tamale-Bolgatanga highway. The ghastly accident ...
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Call for hospital in the north
The Nation Newspaper - Bridgetown,St. Michael,Barbados
No asthmatic or [victims of] serious bus accidents, as experienced at Crop-Over, should have to travel from those mentioned parishes to Bridgetown to be ...
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8 killed in road accidents
Times of India - India
Sources said the driver of the bus going towards Karimnagar tried to overtake a lorry and dashed against the car. Tragedy struck a couple when the scooter ...
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"Curve of 100 corpses" claims more victims in Thailand
Monsters and Critics.com - USA
The bus's back tyre burst in the pre-dawn accident as it was taking the sharp curve in the Kraburi district of Ranong province, 400 kilometres south of ...
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Children hit by vehicles in two separate accidents
Tampa Bay's 10 - St. Petersburg,FL,USA
A second accident happened around
8:25 am in the 100 block of Kilgore Road. 11-year-old Jessiny Santos was walking toward her school bus stop when she was ...
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Storm prevents locals from making splash at KVACs
knox.VillageSoup.com - Rockland,ME,USA
According to Bill Hughes, Camden Hills athletic director, the bus carrying Windjammer, Panther and Tiger swimmers was stopped at an accident on Route 1 in ...
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San Francisco Bus Crashes
By dannoyes
Statistics from the Federal Transit Association show that Muni had more than twice the rate of motor bus injury accidents in 2006 compared to agencies of similar size in Denver, Portland and Orange County, and more than three times that ...
abc7news.com I-Team - http://iteamblog.abc7news.com/

Thailand. 3 Bus crashes and more deaths in a few days.
By Brunty(Brunty)
The driver stayed at the crash site and it is thought that the tyre blew and the bus lost control and overturned. This could be a tragic and unavoidable accident but when you see the state of some of the buses on the roads in
Thailand ...
Isaan Style! - http://isaanstyle.blogspot.com/

Daily Crime Incidents for February 11, 2008.
By spdk(spdk)
The said Martin Fernandez was seriously injured by a KSRTC bus in a road traffic accident on
06/02/2008 at 0620 hrs at Marigudi Belthangady Town and admitted to the Mangala Nursing Home Hospital at Mangalore. In this connection a case ...
spdk - http://spdk.blogspot.com/

When life suddenly ends...
By Chess Gal(Chess Gal)
Bus accidents in Msia is quite a headline grabber these days, despite being in a CNY mood, I know i shouldn't be bringing up bad things like death or accidents, but many times, we always take things for granted. ...
Chess Gal - http://chessgal.blogspot.com/

On the Bus
By not always right, but often not wrong(not always right, but often not wrong)
It's sad to be human and accidents will happen. Maybe your bus driver didn't get enough sleep last night, she still needs to work today. Speak to one another, like humans do. Care enough to put yourself in someone else's shoes. ...
not for naught: - http://ravengirl.livejournal.com/

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