Thursday, February 14, 2008

2/14/08

Deal reached on transit funding
Globe and Mail - Canada
A prolonged spat that stalled $350-million in transit funding for
Toronto has been settled, with the city, the province and the federal government each ...
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Study suggests merging transit, community
Times Herald-Record - Middletown,NY,USA
By Judy Rife A study released yesterday suggests that new transit stations in the Tappan Zee corridor can become catalysts for the development of walkable ...
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NJ Transit to pay $2M more for environmental documents
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - Newark,NJ,USA
BY TOM FEENEY NJ Transit will pay a consulting firm an extra $2 million to prepare environmental documents to support its plan to build a new rail tunnel ...
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NJ Transit to roll out new buses this summer
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
NEWARK, NJ - This summer, some NJ Transit bus riders will find more leg room, more soothing colors and wider doors on new buses. The new buses, one of which ...
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Arrest affidavit says ex-transit official forged letter from DA
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
Lynn Flint Shaw resigned last month from the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board and as treasurer of Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert's fundraising operation amid ...
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$30bn needed for dams, mass transit plans
Pakistan Dawn - Karachi,Pakistan
“Then we need to raise about $10 billion for three mass transit projects in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad, two shipyards, one in Karachi and the other in ...
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Chicago Transit Authority Deploys Wi-Fi Mesh Network for Mobile ...
FOXBusiness - USA
CTA's 1190 rapid transit cars operate over eight routes and 222 miles of track. CTA trains provide about 500000 customer trips each day and serve 144 ...
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Big rate hike a ploy to kill Gwinnett transit?
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
Proposed rate hikes for Gwinnett County Transit, if approved, will almost double some fares and cause a significant drop in ridership — most of which will ...
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Sound Transit reform deserves the fast lane
Seattle Times - United States
The Senate Transportation Committee in
Olympia has been sitting on a bill that would reform Sound Transit and subject it to voter control. ...
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Got a Ticket to Ride? You'd Better Show It on Lynx
By rss@masstransitmag.com (Steve Harrison,...
The Charlotte Area Transit System issued 41 tickets Feb. 4 for people riding light rail without a ticket, as the transit system launched its first "fare enforcement blitz."
MassTransitMag.com: Top Transit News - http://www.masstransitmag.com

Report calls for transit-friendly development in Rockland
Opportunities exist to create developments featuring housing, retail and offices around future train or bus stations in Rockland, but it will require serious reimagining by governments and the business sector, the Regional Plan ...
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Bill seeks to unite rural transit
ATLANTA - Soon, people in rural Georgia could hop a transit van and zoom across the state or to neighboring cities.
Jacksonville.com: Georgia News - http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/georgia/

2008 Sustainable Transit Award
Thanks to its recently launched bus rapid transit (BRT) system -- a fleet of 63-foot hybrid-electric buses operating in exclusive bus lanes and servicing passengers every 10 minutes -- Eugene, Oregon became the only city in the US to be ...
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Critics Chide Bush Budget
By Custom House Guide
chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, said that the Bush budget plan for Fiscal Year 2009 shortchanges highways, transit, rail, and air transportation programs, as well as emergency preparedness, ...
Import Industry News - http://blogs.customhouseguide.com/news

TTC to announce better bus, streetcar service
National Post - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
The Toronto Transit Commission plans to unveil $22-million in improvements to bus and streetcar service tomorrow, the TTC’s chairman says. ...
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Bus firm launching £5m expansion
BBC News - UK
Northern Ireland's largest independent bus company, Chambers, is investing £5m in new coaches and a new operations base in Moneymore, County Londonderry. ...
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Chastains ask court to delay sales tax for bus system
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
"We're seeking to protect, first of all, that three-eighths-cent sales tax for light rail, which they're trying to get voters to redirect to the bus system ...
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Death toll from bus plunge in southwest China rises to 23
Xinhua - China
14 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from a bus crash in southwest China's Guizhou Province on Tuesday has risen to 23 after rescuers recovered another body and a ...
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Bus crash sends 32 to emergency
Edmonton Sun - Alberta, Canada
By GLENN KAUTH, SUN MEDIA Four people were in hospital yesterday after a bus flipped on its side when the driver ferrying workers from a coal mine near ...
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No Australians injured in Egyptian bus crash: DFAT
ABC Online - Australia
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) says there are no Australians injured in a bus crash in southern
Egypt. Egyptian authorities have told ...
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Nigeria: We Want Equal Treatment, Bus Drivers Tell Police
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Commercial bus drivers operating within Abuja have called on the police to allow them drop passengers at various bus stops allocated to Mass Transit buses ...
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Longer bus rides could save money on future vehicles
Indianapolis Star - United States
On Tuesday, the Zionsville Community School Board authorized spending more than $329047 on four 78-passenger buses and one 14-passenger bus. ...
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Villagers booked for blocking bus
Times of India - India
GIDDERBAHA (MUKTSAR): Blocking the way of a bus proved costly for some residents of Dhehdi village on Wednesday as police booked a score of them as well as ...
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Metro Seeks Changes to Busy Bus Routes
Washington Post - United States
By Lena H. Sun Metro is planning to improve bus service on its highest ridership line, which carries 20000 daily riders along the major east-west route in ...
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Church Bus Driver Home From The Hospital After Crash
The driver of a church bus, who was injured in a crash in Pickens County last month, is now home from the hospital.
News - http://www.wspa.com

Annoying Boy on Bus
Annoying Boy on Bus.
Digg / World News / upcoming - http://digg.com/world_news

School Bus Safety
By WRBL.com(WRBL.com)
A new push from the US Transportation Secretary is proposing stricter safety measures for school buses within the next five years. more.
Local News for WRBL - News 3,... - http://www.wrbl.com/index.php/news

Student says man approached her after getting off bus
Business Gazette - Gaithersburg,MD,USA
31 incidents are related, Officer Melanie Hadley, a spokeswoman for the county police, said. Kate Harrison, the spokeswoman for county public schools, ...
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1 killed in Nashik as MNS workers attack bus
Sify - Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India
One of the bus passengers succumbed to his injuries in the hospital. Sporadic incidents of violence were reported from other parts of the state as well ...
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Man Charged With Exposing Himself At Bus Stop
Local10.com - Miami,FL,USA
Jones was also charged for a November 2007 incident for allegedly exposing himself at a school bus stop in the 10800 block of
Cleary Boulevard. ...
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School bus driver arrested on sex charges
Glens Falls Post-Star - Glens Falls,NY,USA
Douglas G. Conrad, of 151 Jefferson St., was charged with four misdemeanor counts of forcible touching related to incidents police said occurred at his ...
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Situation in Nasik under control
Hindu - Chennai,India
... the situation was "under control" in the city on Wednesday with no fresh incidents of violence. The city bus service of Maharashtra State Road Transport ...
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Uneasy calm marred by flare-ups
Mumbai Newsline - Mumbai,India
Another similar incident occurred at the Nancy Colony bus depot, where a man threw stones at a parked BEST bus, shattering some windows. ...
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US Monitoring Australian Anti-Semitism
New York Jewish Week - NY, USA
He’s filed legal action before a tribunal of the Victoria Civil Administration as a result of the incident, because an off-duty cop was driving the bus ...
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10:06 PM, I-95 S, Automatic Congestion, Congestion, US 70 BUS
Traffic is traveling at 23 MPH at: I-95 S; MM 97; US 70 BUS.
NCDOT Traffic Incidents for the... - http://apps.dot.state.nc.us/tims/

Every window on bus broken by youths
Bus passengers on a service into Bradford were left "shocked and shaken" after witnessing one of the "most serious" incidents of vandalism ever carried out on a First bus.
- http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk

Icy Storm Ties Up Travel, Voting in East
The Associated Press -
There were seven accidents within a quarter-mile of that crash, police said. The National Weather Service issued an ice storm warning through
7 am Wednesday ...
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Bus Crash Causes Concern On ECU Campus
WITN TV - USA
East Carolina University
officials are looking into any new policies to better prevent dangerous accidents like last Thursdays. Police say the student bus ...
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Egypt tour bus accident injures 21, 4 seriously
Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg,South Africa
CAIRO, Feb 13 (Reuters) - A tour bus flipped over in southern Egypt on Wednesday, injuring 21 tourists, four of them seriously, a security source said. ...
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Udupi: Untimely Showers Result in Series of Accidents on NH 17
Daijiworld.com - Mangalore,India
Their failure in controlling the vehicles resulted in number of road accidents throughout the district on Tuesday. A private express bus plying from ...
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I-Team investigation
13abc.com - Toledo,OH,USA
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports school bus accidents killed 134 people in 2005, 94 of the victims who died were in other cars. ...
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Snow showers to blame for icy roads, accidents
Greenwich Time - Greenwich,CT,USA
Earlier in the day, Student Transportation Association in
Stamford reported two minor school bus accidents, one at Porchuck Road and the second at the ...
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NEWS REPORT: FIRE BUS ACCIDENT I WAS IN
By rss@youtube.com (1straptureb4antichri)
It was an accident and accidents happen. But why? God had a purpose, but what? Well, I'm thankful I made it out. Check out my other footage! Author: 1straptureb4antichri Keywords: Final Destination Fire Accident Bus Gas Wheel God Escape ...
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Daily Crime Incidents for February 13, 2008
By spdk(spdk)
A case of
Non Fatal Road accident has been registered in Mangalore East Police Station. On 12/02/2008 at 1815 hrs on NH 17 near KPT junction at Mangalore one driver of bus bearing Reg. No. KA-20-A-8388 drove his in a rash and negligent ...
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