Tuesday, February 5, 2008

2/5/08

Blueline buses have no right to kill, says SC
Zee News - Noida,Uttar Pradesh,India
New Delhi, Feb 01: Taking a tough stand against "killer" Blueline buses, the Supreme Court on Friday said refused to interfere with a High Court order ...
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SC roots for people’s rights, ‘come what may’
Calcutta Telegraph - Calcutta,India
Balakrishnan made the remarks as a Blueline bus operator quoted Justice Markandey Katju’s judgment on judicial overreach to argue that Delhi High Court was ...
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Sound Transit may get $100 million boost
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
By DEBERA CARLTON HARRELL Sound Transit's University Link could receive a $100 million boost, thanks to an announcement made Monday by the Bush ...
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Borders, Transit Top Security Spending
The Associated Press -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Preventing terrorists from hacking into computer systems that run the nation's power grid and other vital networks gets a new emphasis in ...
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Kazakhstan Hikes Gas Transit Prices
The Moscow Times - Russia
Kazakhstan said Monday it had raised the price for shipping gas to Gazprom by 27 percent. Gazprom agreed to pay $1.40 for shipping 1000 cubic meters of gas ...
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Students take advantage of free trips by NJ Transit
RU Daily Targum (subscription) - New Brunswick,NJ,USA
Free Transit Week is here again, attracting many University student commuters and city-goers to ride
New Jersey Transit rails or buses to and from New ...
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Critical mass: Agat resident fed up with public transit
KUAM.com - Dededo,GU,USA
Borden says she has reached her boiling point, explaining that none of the issues she brought to the attention of public transit officials have been ...
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Free tours of Brunei for transit passengers
micebtn - Perth,Western Australia,Australia
Royal Brunei Airlines (RBA) in conjunction with Brunei Tourism Board, has launched “Window on
Brunei” a tour program for passengers in transit through ...
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Weather causes transit delays for some students
Minnesota Daily - Minneapolis,MN,USA
The drivers of campus shuttles are all contracted through First Transit. Beverly Edwards, vice president of central region for First Transit, ...
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Port, transit security money doubles
San Mateo County Times - San Mateo,CA,USA
By Erik N. Nelson, Staff Writer The Bay Area will receive twice as much federal security funding for port and public transit facilities as it did last year ...
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Urban transit will need $40 billion in next five years for upkeep ...
The Canadian Press -
OTTAWA - The country's municipal transit systems will need $40.1 billion for upkeep and expansion over the next five years, the Canadian Urban Transit ...
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JJ Hospital shooting accused sent to Mumbai on transit remand
Hindu - Chennai,India
... in the 1992 JJ Hospital Shooting case in Mumbai, was on Monday sent to the metropolis on a three-day transit remand for his production in a court there. ...
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SEPTA's New Chief Maps Route to Better Service
By rss@masstransitmag.com (By Paul Nussbaum,...
Casey, takes the helm at an unusually auspicious moment in
Philadelphia transit history. Ridership is up. Dedicated funding is a reality. The overdue, over-budget Market El reconstruction is nearly finished. And a new, transit-friendly ...
MassTransitMag.com: Top Transit News - http://www.masstransitmag.com

$100 million in President’s budget moves University Link toward ...
In its strongest endorsement to date of Sound Transit’s University Link light rail project, the Bush administration today included $100 million for the project in his proposed FY 2009 budget.
Sound Transit Latest News Releases - http://www.soundtransit.org

Feds OK Grand Rapids’ ‘New Start’ Transit Funds
Just when it seemed Michigan was hitting a dead end on transit, one of the state’s top bus systems got a hot lead on a New Start: Grand Rapids won as much as $29 million from Washington to build the Auto State’s most advanced public ...
MLUI News - http://mlui.org

State of the Region: Goal of Double Ridership on Metro Transit by 2030
The Metropolitan Council cited progress toward improving the transit system in the Twin Cities metro and ridership growth in Monday’s State of the Region speech.
Local News for MyFox Twin Cities - http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/myfox

Bus bombing kills 12, wrecks Sri Lanka celebrations
Times Online - UK
The 60th anniversary of Sri Lanka's independence was marked with more carnage today, when 12 people were killed by a bombing on a crowded bus after a ...
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Bus rider grabs steering wheel, forcing bus off Highway 1
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
An unruly bus passenger grabbed the steering and forced the Santa Cruz Metro bus off Highway 1 in
Watsonville. The bus was heading en route to Santa Cruz on ...
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Snow stalls bus service in Ogden area, several schools closed
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
Posted:
7:05 AM- School bus service in the Ogden Valley has been suspended due to the 12 to 24 inches of snow that fell Sunday, according to television ...
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12 civilians die, 17 injured in Sri Lanka bus blast
Hindu - Chennai,India
PHOTO: AP A nurse carrying a child injured in the bus blast in
Sri Lanka on Monday. COLOMBO: At least 12 civilians died and 17 injured in a claymore ...
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10 killed, 30 hurt in suicide attack on military bus in Pak
Hindu - Chennai,India
"It was a suicide attack... a man on a motorcycle rammed into the bus," a military official said. The powerful blast completely destroyed the bus carrying ...
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City bus and two cars crash in Los Angeles, 12 injured
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
AP LOS ANGELES—Authorities say a city bus and two compact cars have crashed in
Los Angeles, leaving a dozen people with minor injuries. ...
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New owner takes wheel of Micro Bus
Bangkok Post - Thailand
Premier Group of Companies, a consumer business conglomerate and property developer, has diversified into the public bus service after acquiring a licence ...
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Six kids on bus suffer minor injuries in crash
London Free Press - Canada
By SUN MEDIA An afternoon bus crash sent six children to hospital with minor injuries yesterday, police said. Thames Valley District school board officials ...
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Women immigrants become bus drivers
Norway Post - Bærum,Norway
There is a serious shortage of bus drivers in Norway, and the National Labour Office (NAV) has started a course in Oslo, designed to qualify immigrant women ...
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Bus crash investigation under way
BBC News - UK
A bus driver and several passengers have been taken to hospital after a crash on a minor road near
Dumfries. The Stagecoach service operating between ...
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Healthy alternative: Take mass transit; Walking to bus or subway ...
Then get out of your car and hop on the bus or train. That's the message from some transit agencies that are appealing to drivers' health concerns. "All the new research over the last five years indicates pretty clearly the health ...
Government Innovators Network News - http://www.innovations.harvard.edu

More bus routes facing axe
ANOTHER two communities are reeling from the news that vital transport links are due to be axed.
This is Hampshire | Hampshire News - http://www.thisishampshire.net

Suicide attack on Pakistan army bus kills six
Rawalpindi, Pakistan (AFP) Feb 4, 2008 - A suicide attacker rammed a motorbike into a Pakistan army bus taking medical staff to work in the garrison city of Rawalpindi Monday, killing six people and wounding 38, officials said.
Military Space News, Nuclear... - http://www.spacewar.com/

Three hurt in bus crash on Brewerton Road
By Douglass Dowty
A 16-year-old student and two others were injured after a school bus turned in front of an oncoming car and crashed Monday afternoon on
Brewerton Road, Onondaga County sheriff's deputies said. A school bus aide, Billiejo Iden, ...
News from The Post-Standard on... - http://blog.syracuse.com/news/

Detroit Bus Hits Two Kills One
By jon8105
A City bus hit two pedestrians. The bus killed one of the victims, while leaving the other one in critical condition. The
Detroit City Bus was making a turn when it struck two pedestrians that were in the cross walk, according to police ...
Current World News - http://currentworldnews.net

Bombs mar Sri Lanka independence day
CNN - USA
The government immediately blamed the Tamil Tiger rebels for the attacks, which killed 12 civilians and one soldier in separate incidents. ...
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Bus Driver Arrested for Indecent Liberties With a Child
WJLA - Washington,DC,USA
The incidents occurred when the victims were under his care. Robinson has been held without bond and is pending a hearing in the Juvenile and Domestic ...
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Rawalpindi blast
The Post - Lahore,Punjab,Pakistan
At least six people died when a suicide bomber, riding a motorcycle, rammed into a bus carrying personnel of the defence department outside the building of ...
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Report supports street cameras
The Chronicle Journal - Thunder Bay,Ontario,Canada
Because of the surveillance system, police defused 78 incidents and made 69 arrests last year. Monitoring staff were also responsible for 13 medical ...
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Officers who ignored yellow lines could get tickets
ChronicleLive - Newcastle upon Tyne,England,UK
It is the latest in a series of incidents in which police have been caught parking on double yellow lines, on pavements and even at bus stops. ...
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8:51 PM, I-95 N, Automatic Congestion, Congestion, US 70 BUS
Traffic is traveling at 29 MPH at: I-95 N; MM 97; US 70 BUS.
NCDOT Traffic Incidents for the... - http://apps.dot.state.nc.us/tims/

Guest Posting By A Man At The Bus Stop - My Neighborhood
By A Simple Jew(A Simple Jew)
I don't hear of much friction – there is an occasional story that makes the rounds of a rock thrown at a Jewish school bus, or other occasional incidents like that, but overall I am not aware of any real visible hostility. ...
A Simple Jew - http://asimplejew.blogspot.com/

Explosions rock Sri Lanka on independence day, killing 13
By dukea
The government immediately blamed the Tamil Tiger rebels for the attacks, which killed 12 civilians and one soldier in separate incidents. A roadside bomb ripped through a bus in northeast Sri Lanka Monday, killing 12 passengers and ...
The CNN Wire - http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com

The Bus Crash petition to the Ministry of Transport
By Andre Reutens(Andre Reutens)
Despite numerous complaints and public uproar in the past, incidents like this continue to occur. It was reported that the driver's company had 13 summonses on that bus itself. We find it unacceptable that such a company could have ...
The Scrapbook of Worthwhile Stuff - http://andrereutens.blogspot.com/

How TCAT spent the year 2007
Ithaca Journal - Ithaca,NY,USA
The report includes ridership by route, service changes, bus maintenance expense, road calls, preventative maintenance, inspection results, accidents, ...
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Call for tougher bus driver laws
Bradford Telegraph Argus - Bradford,England,UK
The court also heard that he had been given a verbal warning and was facing disciplinary proceedings at the time of the accident. ...
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Holiday accidents claim 37 lives in Venezuela
GulfNews - Dubai,United Arab Emirates
In another major accident the same day, a bus tumbled down western highway, killing seven people and injuring 30, he said. An estimated 13 million people ...
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7 (un)Luckiest People in the World
By .
Escaped from a derailed train, a door-less plane, a bus crash, a car into flames, another 2 car accidents... but then won $1000000 dollars on the lottery! Frane Selak (born 1929) is a Croatian music teacher famous for his numerous ...
Fun and entertainment guaranteed - http://jokesrfunny.blogspot.com/

2/4/08
By Al M(Al M)
"Bus accidents are common in
Zimbabwe , blamed on shortages of replacement tires and spare parts. The heaviest seasonal rains since colonial-era records began a century ago have also left poorly maintained streets and highways pitted by ...
Bus Emergency news archive - http://busemergencynewsarchive.blogspot.com/

A tribute to a friend
By amandany-c(amandany-c)
Do not let express bus passengers die in vain time and again. We have failed them many times. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! It's time for the Government to stand up and take solid action against reckless bus drivers to curb accidents from killing ...
* [ Hugme-Holdme-Comeonbaby-Pleaseme!... - http://puresoul-manda.blogspot.com/

Wife, Mother, and Angel: Part II
By Mr. Grudge
Two main highways merge into one and accidents are abundant in these roads. As she drove along in the left lane which would take her out onto the center lane of route 347 after the merge, she noticed a van parked precariously on the ...
Mr. Grudge - http://www.mrgrudge.com/

Bus crash no more signature campaign = Peeetuuuiiiiii!
By ShadowFox(ShadowFox)
You deserve to be crashed again and again in bus accidents, that's if you have more than 1 life in the first place. You wanted help, the others offered, and of course the opposition did as well, but NOOooo, you dismissed them as filthy ...
ShadowFox's hideout - http://bytemuncher.blogspot.com/

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