Sunday, February 3, 2008

2/3/08

Bush Partisans Scuttle Far-Reaching Transit Blueprint
Hartford Courant - United States
And they saw past "roads only," focusing on an expanded freight system as well as on repairing our highways and bridges, and on making transit and intercity ...
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DART chairman's resignation doesn't end scrutiny of transit agency
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
Voters are demanding more transit options, and that demands more accountability, said North Richland Hills Mayor Oscar Trevino, chairman of the Regional ...
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Robert E. Nisbet, 89, helped create AC Transit
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
Robert E. Nisbet of Berkeley, an attorney who helped create AC Transit and became its first employee and eventually its general manager, has died. ...
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Transit district lays out plan for Oceanside center
OCEANSIDE ---- The North County Transit District is moving forward with plans to eventually add a mix of apartments, offices, open space and aboveground parking to the downtown Oceanside Transit Center.
/news/coastal/ from www.nctimes.com - http://www.nctimes.com/

Transportation Headlines for Saturday February 2, 2008
By Metro Librarian(Metro Librarian)
Latest Broadway Revival Gets Underway - City, Property Owners Tout Joint Effort for Bringing Back Historic Theater District http://www.ladowntownnews.com/articles/2008/02/04/news/news01.txt LA Downtown News Missing the transit mark ...
Los Angeles Transportation Headlines - http://losangelestransportation.blogspot.com/

Kaine wants specifics from FTA
By WFY(WFY)
Tim Kaine, in an open letter (PDF), has asked the Federal Transit Administration to identify specifics on how to get the $900 million funding. He should have asked for this days ago. WMATA head John Catoe disagrees with FTA's assessment ...
William World News - William F. Yurasko - http://www.yurasko.net/wfy/

News from the Westside
By Cyrus Farivar
All of the routes, along with other mass transit options for the congested Westside, will be discussed at a series of public meetings that begin tonight. Officials with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority will study the ...
cyrusfarivar.com - http://cyrusfarivar.com/blog

18 killed, 51 hurt in Lankan bus bombing
Hindu - Chennai,India
Colombo (PTI): A parcel bomb planted by suspected LTTE rebels ripped through a bus packed with Buddhist pilgrims killing 18 passengers, mostly women, ...
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Test a bust for NYC bus stops' arrival-time signs
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
NEW YORK - NYC Transit officials say a high-tech system for letting riders know when a bus will come has hit a roadblock. A spokesman says the system has ...
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One dead in West Coast tourist bus crash
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
A tourist bus has crashed over a bank in the Buller District, killing one person and seriously injuring another. Inspector Michael Coulter of the police ...
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Sri Lanka asks for public help to find bus bombing suspects
AFP -
COLOMBO (AFP) — Sri Lanka's police Sunday sought public help to track down two men believed to have planted a powerful bomb on a crowded bus that killed 20 ...
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Courtesy may be cause of bus crash
TVNZ - New Zealand
A tour bus driver's attempt at driver courtesy may have cost a British tourist her life, after the bus they were in crashed on the west coast. ...
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Eritrea: NASAIR Plans to Introduce Air-Bus 300
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The privately-owned NASAIR plans to introduce Air-Bus 300 as part of its program to expand its flight service, according to Mr. Berhane Mehari, ...
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Pedestrian hit by Blueline bus
Times of India - India
NOIDA: An unidentified man, aged around 25 years, was grievously injured when he was hit by a Blueline bus on Saturday evening in Noida. ...
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Northern Va. lawmakers seek bus rapid transit system
Ken Cuccinelli, R-Fairfax, have scheduled a news conference for tomorrow to discuss the future of Northern Virginia transportation improvements. With federal funding in doubt for the Washington Metro rail extension to Washington Dulles ...
- http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news.html

Seniors about to get free bus rides
A senior citizen who rides city buses twice a week will save about $36 a year when free bus rides for senior citizens begin Feb. 25 with city council approval.
The Commercial-News, Danville,... - http://www.commercial-news.com

Bus bombing kills 20 as Sri Lanka prepares for freedom day
AFP, COLOMBOSuspected Tamil Tiger rebels detonated a bomb on a crowded bus in northern Sri Lanka on Saturday, killing at least 20 people two days ahead of celebrations marking independence day, officials said. ...
News - Independent Bangladesh - http://www.independent-bangladesh.com

Bomb hits bus in Sri Lanka, killing 18
A bomb ripped through a bus loaded mostly with elderly Buddhist pilgrims in central Sri Lanka, killing at least 18 people and wounding 51 others.
World News Australia - http://news.sbs.com.au/worldnewsaustralia/

NYCity News Service: OffTheBus On The Ground: The New York Primary
By NYCity News Service(webmaster@huffingtonpost.com)
The NYCity News Service is teaming with The Huffington Post's OffTheBus to provide comprehensive coverage of the
New York presidential primary. The multi-media News Service, based at the City University of New York's Graduate School of ...
Off The Bus on HuffingtonPost.com - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/feeds/verticals/off-the-bus/index.xml

Dambulla turns graveyard after bomb rips through bus carrying ...
Nation on Sunday - Sri Lanka
The incident occurred at 7:05 am, when a Kandy-Anuradhapua bus exploded in Dambulla, just past the Kurunegala junction, leaving 18 dead and around 70 ...
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Public should be vigilant to thwart LTTE attacks on civilians
Sunday Observer - Columbo,Sri Lanka
... there is a sharp difference between the incident that had taken placer in Madhu area and in Dambulla as the civilians got killed in the Dambulla bus ...
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Madhu: Where a routine bus ride ended in a blast
Sunday Times.lk - Columbo,Sri Lanka
In a statement condemning the incident the CBSL said, “We reiterate that these acts of violence will not lead us anywhere but only cause so much suffering, ...
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Christina Lamb: How I combine being a mother and war reporter
Times Online - UK
And so it was that on October 18 last year, when I should have been at a school parents’ evening, I was instead on Benazir Bhutto’s bus when it was bombed. ...
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Williston Bus Driver Pleads | KXNet.com North Dakota News
KXMC - Minot,ND,USA
Authorities say the charges stem from separate alleged incidents reported by three girls of grade school age two who were children on Gilbert's bus routes ...
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Teen says man tried to lure her to car
Calgary Herald - Calgary,Canada
Calgary police are investigating a second incident in two days in which a young girl was intimidated by a stranger at a city bus stop. ...
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Undercover cops in war on bus vandals
Liverpool Echo - UK
We would ask people to follow this example and report incidents they witness to the police.” To report vandalism or yobbish behaviour on the bus network ...
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Daily Crime Incidents for February 02, 2008.
By spdk(spdk)
On
30/01/2008 at 1000 hrs some unknown culprits committed theft of cash Rs.1, 65000/ belonging to one Vijayachandra Rao (36) R/o Kumbale Kasaragod District Kerala State while he was traveling in a bus bearing Reg. No. ...
spdk - http://spdk.blogspot.com/

36 arrested during party bus incident - Topix
36 arrested during party bus incident. Posted by roboblogger 9 min ago | Bookmark and Share. The bus had been rented by Alpha Sigma Sigma, a frarority that ...

14 dead in Zimbabwe bus crash
The Press Association -
Bus accidents are common in
Zimbabwe, blamed on shortages of replacement tyres and spare parts. The heaviest seasonal rains since colonial-era records began ...
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Bus hits elderly woman running across street
Honolulu Advertiser - Honolulu,HI,USA
The first accident happened about
4:52 am yesterday on Dillingham Boulevard, near Pu'uhale Road, when a city bus struck a 73-year-old Kalihi woman crossing ...
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Worst of storm skips area
Port Huron Times Herald - Port Huron,MI,USA
Weather was a factor in two semi-truck accidents and one accident involving a Blue Water Area Transit bus. At about
4:45 pm Friday, a Blue Water Area ...
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One dead in West Coast tourist bus crash
Marlborough Express - Blenheim,New Zealand
Police said the
Thames Coast Road would be closed for several hours while they investigated the accident. Earlier, a Levin man died when his motorcycle ...
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AMTS buses as deadly as Blueline
Times of India - India
Of the total, 20 fatal accidents have been caused by private bus drivers. Sources in AMTS said there is no way of keeping track of drivers' experience for ...
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Accident sparks mob fury
Times of India - India
The police said the accident occurred when the rashly driven BMTC bus overtook a vehicle and rammed the bike near Al-Ameen college, throwing the duo off ...
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Briton dies in New Zealand bus crash
Times Online - UK
There have been other accidents involving tourist coaches in
New Zealand’s West Coast region. A Kiwi Experience bus carrying 25 people crashed into a ...
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Lingerie sends panting drivers on road to ruin
Scotland on Sunday - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
Staff at Agent Provocateur in Glasgow claim to have witnessed numerous bumps and accidents because of drivers craning their necks to look at their risqué ...
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Update: INL Bus Crash
LocalNews8.com - Idaho Falls,ID,USA
According to bus supervisors there has never been a bus accident attributed to an INL bus driver in the 50 years that the buses have been taking workers to ...
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Bus hits elderly woman running across street
Two city buses were involved in accidents yesterday morning, one of which left a 73-year-old pedestrian in critical condition.
The Honolulu Advertiser: Local News - http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/localnews

The minibus taxi menace
By Max-e(Max-e)
Overloading is a problem and the carnage on the roads from taxi accidents is horrific. Some years back a minibus taxi collided with a bus in
Port Elizabeth and it was reported that 27 people were killed. The bus driver survived. ...
the maX files - http://themaxefiles.blogspot.com/

2/2/08
By Al M(Al M)
The videos, which shed light on driver misconduct within the city's Muni bus system, include instances of accidents, injuries, threats, and insults. Muni only saves video footage on file when it involves serious incidents. ...
Bus Emergency news archive - http://busemergencynewsarchive.blogspot.com/

RIP Nian Ning
By Miss S!mple
This isn’t the first time that peoples love ones have been lost in bus accidents. How many lifeless bodies does the government need to see before they do something about the issue!? When I found out that there was a petition I signed it ...
simple as C - http://www.simplecheryl.com

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