Saturday, March 29, 2008

3-29-08

Bus strikes blind man downtown
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
Some witnesses said they are growing concerned about the number of bus accidents that have occurred in recent months. Today's was the third pedestrian ...
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Wrong Turns?
Rocktown Weekly - Harrisonburg,VA,USA
The policy of two engines and a ladder truck responding to school bus accidents will be maintained regardless of whether injuries are reported, ...
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Bus Fare Increase
By parkforest
This bus does not carry non-workers, riffraff or persons trying to cause harm to other citizens of
Gwinnett County. This bus is an answered prayer to the daily overcrowding of the roads, the accidents, headaches and daily commutes to ...
Park Forest Subdivision - http://parkforest.savegwinnett.com

Insurance Company Claiming
By itsmygreekmadness
Thirdly, we couldn’t move the cars until the police came, so I had a wonderful two hours blocking the traffic, arguing with the occasional angry bus driver, meeting the gathering crowd, being served coffee roadside by the locals, ...
Greece through dark glasses - http://itsmygreekmadness.wordpress.com

School and Legal Responsibility
By Joe Stanley(CrystalY)
Children are at risk for falls , bus accidents, and attacks from other students. If any thing goes wrong much sure a report is filed. Claims against school districts generally require immediate legal help. so dont be afraid to call a ...
The Stanley Law Offices - http://www.stanleylawoffices.com/blog.html

Are bendy buses really London's biggest problem?
By Timmymc(Timmymc)
Though conditions there were not thought to be comparible to
London, it was noted that accidents involving the buses are "well below expectations when compared to the standard UK First Bus fleet." Worth noting. Perhaps we can learn from ...
Tim McLoughlin - http://timmymc.blogspot.com/

updates
By Rebecca(Rebecca)
Took a bus to place of accident. Some callmen were already there - super efficient! Towed to police station in Jalan Bandar, made a police report, went to workshop, went back to Jusco. Changed from Hotlink to Maxis post paid. ...
Bex - http://lingster.blogspot.com/

Pickup pervert eyeing young girls
Edmonton Sun - Alberta, Canada
In the second incident, a 12-year-old girl was waiting at a bus stop near 106 Street and 40 Avenue around 7:30 pm, when a man driving an older-model white ...
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Police: Man exposes himself near school bus
phillyBurbs.com - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... and Keeler was living there at the time of the two incidents. A motorist, stopped behind the school bus on March 6 while it picked up its passengers, ...
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School buses scene of two mishaps
Orangeville Citizen - Orangeville,Canada
In a March 17 incident in
Bolton, a school bus lost a rear tire as it was travelling northbound on Regional Road 50. The accident happened shortly after 9 ...
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Bridge is hit by bus again
Scotland Courier - Dundee,Scotland,UK
“Drivers are trained extensively to highlight incidents of this nature and it is practice for all running boards to highlight that any double-deck vehicle ...
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Pak-Afghan ‘Dosti Bus’ hijacked, freed
The News - International - Pakistan
Immediately after the incident, representatives of the tribe contacted political authorities of the agency and demanded release of their men in return for ...
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Parents sue son’s bully
MSNBC - USA
One shows a bully jumping him on the school bus and slamming his head against the window. Another, taken by a bully’s accomplice, shows a kid getting out of ...
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Car hits girl; driver drunk, police say
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
The bus in the background was involved in a collision that killed a 10-year-old San Ramon boy on Friday. (Doug Duran/Staff) A minivan struck and seriously ...
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Shots fired in Albany; 14-year-old wounded
Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA
Police said the men in the car then backed up and sideswiped a CDTA bus and then left the scene. No one on the bus was reported injured. ...
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In aftermath of racial incidents, students unite
Lancaster Newspapers - Lancaster,PA,USA
The Warwick students stepped off a school bus shortly before
8:30 this morning and were welcomed to McCaskey by Denise Vega, a McCaskey teacher whose ...
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Winter Soldier 2008: A Marine Mom’s Eyewitness Account of the ...
By Dennis Loo(Dennis Loo)
During last weekend’s Winter Soldier hearings, soldiers repeatedly testified that the crimes against humanity they described were not isolated incidents; that they were the rule, not the exception, of the US occupations of Iraq and ...
Dennis Loo - http://dennisloo.blogspot.com/

Bad Mommy
By houkhouse
It will go down on the record books with the Halloween Party I forgot when Marlee was 2 and the lunch money I took to the wrong school a couple of years ago and similar incidents that are regretfully painful reminders that I really ...
Dying Arts - http://dyingarts.wordpress.com/

Penalize the Taggers not the Victims
By RailRider
We are also working with Durham Transit on a couple of instances where graffiti incidents have occurred on private properties near bus stops. On more than one occasion, stop signs and mail boxes where graffiti was removed were ...
RailCar Graffiti - http://www.railcargraffiti.com/

Blueline overturns; one killed, fifteen injured
Sify - Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India
New Delhi: The killer Blueline claimed its 19th victim in the city when a speeding bus hit a tree and overturned on Ashoka Road on S

Philly area transit agency has brighter financial picture
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader - Wilkes Barre,PA,USA
For the first time in a decade the
Philadelphia area's mass transit agency is not facing funding problems. SEPTA officials unveiled a $1.08 billion ...
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Utah Transit Authority's FrontRunner to open next month
Progressive Rail Roading - Milwaukee,WI,USA
The Utah Transit Authority (UTA) is getting closer to firing up the first FrontRunner train. The agency plans to open the commuter-rail system on April 26. ...
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Amtrak, NJ Transit Trains Interrupted by Power Problem
Wall Street Journal - USA
AP All Amtrak and New Jersey Transit trains between Philadelphia and New York's Penn Station were at a standstill for about 90 minutes Wednesday because of ...
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`Bull in a china shop' mellows as leadership style matures
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
In less than a week, the 1.5 million people who rely on transit daily could be in that position again as the 12:01 am Tuesday strike deadline approaches. ...
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Funds available for transit, but weren't requested
Modesto Bee - Modesto,CA,USA
This year, there was $15 million available for transit, and a fifth of it was converted to road projects. Now the seniors' representatives are threatening ...
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Transit report maps route for better Muni service
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
The report, called the Transit Effectiveness Project, represents 18 months of data collection and analysis. Its major conclusion, of course, ...
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Amtrak, NJ Transit trains back on track after delay between New ...
International Herald Tribune - France
AP NEWARK, NJ: All Amtrak and NJ Transit trains between Philadelphia and New York's Penn Station were at a standstill for about 90 minutes Wednesday because ...
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Fight erupts over new sales taxes for transit
Pioneer Press - St. Paul,MN,USA
By Dave Orrick On Tuesday, the day some cheered passage of new taxes for transit projects, partisan sparring broke out over how the new money — perhaps $100 ...
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Mayor Says Additional Taxes Must Go To Transit
KITV.com - Honolulu,HI,USA
The issue is over the 0.05 percent increase in the General Excise Tax for the planned mass transit system. The state is collecting the tax because it ...
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Travellers to be hit with transit visa costs
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
People from those countries flying through New Zealand to get to the Pacific Islands already have to obtain a transit visa, under rules due to expire at the ...
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Lead Metropolis: the Five Densest Cities in America
By Ben
O’Leary’s cow kicked over a lantern and burned four square miles of the city in 1871, developed the urban core upwards, and later installed an elevated rail system as the centerpiece of Chigaco Transit Authority. ...
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Good news for the Blackhawk, and Pick one: Zoo or Buses
By QuadCityImages(QuadCityImages)
Hopefully some plans and renderings will be available soon. Its also nice to see the council unanimously approve something... 2 Meetings tonight, but unless you have a Time-Turner, you have to pick one. 1.)Transit public forum ...
Quad City Images - http://quadcityimages.blogspot.com/

Today's Film News: Subway Screenwriter Success Story!
By Katey Rich
Yet another Cinderella story has emerged in the trades today, with Staten Island-based transit worker Michael Martin's screenplay,
Brooklyn's Finest, getting ready for production in May. The Hollywood Reporter writes that Martin began ...
Screener - http://nbm.typepad.com/screener/

ThermaFreeze Corporation Begins Offering Physical Therapy ...
By admin
ThermaFreeze’s products are designed to replace wet ice and gel packs for in-transit temperature control. Through advanced cold chain research, development, experience and perishable field testing, ThermaFreeze developed a suite of ...
Medical,Health News and Articles - http://03530.com

Kids Safety Bulletin: Neighborhood Vehicle Safety (by Don C. Keenan)
By mkwestmark@wakulla.com
Know the regularly scheduled vehicles in your neighborhood – garbage trucks, public transit, mail trucks, etc. By knowing the schedules of your neighborhood vehicles, you can warn your kids about them. Also, if you see one of the ...
Wakulla County - real estate,... - http://www.wakulla.com

7 Killed in Bus Crash on Riyadh-Qassim Highway
Arab News - Jeddah,Saudi Arabia
Eyewitnesses saw passengers scrambling off the bus after it went up in flames. Many of the injured suffered severe burns. “The accident happened around 11 ...
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A teen, two persons killed in road accidents in Bongaon, Barasat
Expressindia.com - New Delhi,India
Thirty-four bus passengers, mainly schoolchildren and college students, were also injured. The accident occurred near the unmanned railway crossing near ...
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Despite the large numbers, our emergency personnel rallied
Madison Daily Leader - Madison,SD,USA
A car-bus accident Wednesday morning east of
Madison killed a Dakota State University student and injured more than 50 others. The range of injuries ran the ...
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Beijing sees road deaths totals fall in 2007
Xinhua - China
They also said a fall in the number of truck and passenger bus accidents had contributed to the falling total. The city has reinforced measures against all ...
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Bus-pedestrian crash is third in 9 months
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
The driver, Susan Jane Leveke-Meyers, 54, has had nine "preventable" accidents in about seven years on the job, the transit agency's general manager, ...
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Student hit by car while catching bus
The Daily Collegian Online - University Park,PA,USA
... by a vehicle Tuesday night after she ran into the street to catch a bus, one of many pedestrian-vehicle accidents that plague the borough each year. ...
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Bus Co., No Past Accidents
KSFY - Sioux Falls,SD,USA
A helicopter from an area hospital responds to the site of Wednesday's accident involving a passenger bus. By Drew Sandholm Owners of the bus involved in ...
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Wilmington school bus crashes
WWAY NewsChannel 3 - Wilmington,NC,USA
WILMINGTON -- For the second time in less than a week, a local school bus driver has been cited for causing an accident. Wednesday morning's incident ...
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Movie in category : Accidents
When Dancing on a Bus Goes Wrong.
20 most recent movie dumps on Humor4You - http://www.humor4you.com/

Doug Lund Alert: We Just Knew This Was Coming
By Todd Epp
Even though it appears that the driver of the car was clearly at fault in yesterday's car/bus accident in Lake County, you, me, and everyone else in KELOLAND knew that there would shortly be a story on "tour bus safety." And viola! ...
SD Watch - http://thunewatch.squarespace.com/sdwatch/

27 killed in Iran bus accident - Yahoo! News
Twenty-seven people were killed when a bus overturned in southern Iran, state television reported on Tuesday, the latest crash on the country's hazardous ...

School children hurt in Tirau bus crash
Stuff.co.nz - New Zealand
A collision between a school bus and another vehicle on a one-lane bridge northwest of Tirau this morning left some of the primary school children with ...
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Police officer linked to bus robberies
Inquirer.net - Philippines
PO3 Walterio Laurio, a member of the Police Security and Protection Office (PSPO), and Ricardo Tayumi were arrested after a victim reported to police a bus ...
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Lamu bus fares go up by 15 per cent
Daily Nation - Nairobi,Kenya
Operators interviewed Thursday said the high cost of fuel and spare parts had forced them to increase fares from Sh600 to Sh700. Tawakal Bus transport ...
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Tejano music star Emilio Navaira regaining consciousness after ...
International Herald Tribune - France
AP HOUSTON: Hospital officials say Tejano music star Emilio Navaira, who was severely injured after his tour bus crashed, is slowly regaining consciousness. ...
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40 killed in bus accident in western Uganda
International Herald Tribune - France
AP KAMPALA, Uganda: A senior police officer in
Uganda says a bus overturned Thursday, killing 40 passengers, including four children. ...
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Kyrene bus driver facing child porn charges
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
A Kyrene school bus mechanic and substitute bus driver is facing federal child pornography charges and has been suspended by the school district, ...
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Bus muzak 'creeps out' kids
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
US school bus lines are replacing the noisy banter of children on the morning ride to school with BusRadio -- a new service that reaches one million ...
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Woman hurt as object shatters bus window
Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia
AN elderly woman has been taken to hospital after an object shattered a bus window in
Sydney's inner-west. Police said it was not known what sort of object ...
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40 killed in bus accident in western Uganda
MSNBC - USA
KAMPALA, Uganda - A bus overturned and caught fire on Thursday, killing 40 passengers, including four children. Many of the passengers burned to death in ...
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Woman hit by bus dies of injuries
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
A woman who was hit by a bus at a busy
Richmond intersection on Monday has died. Anna Lee, 75, was struck while attempting to cross Cook and No. ...
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Social Media, CTIA, Blog love and a bus!
By Bena Roberts
I didn’t know what an Airstream was, so I kept on calling it a bus. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Social Media, CTIA, Blog love and a bus!", url: "http://www.gomonews.com/social-media-ctia-blog-love-and-a-bus/" }); Get Edgy.
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BUS DRIVER’S ACTIONS RESULT IN COMPENSATION PAYOUT
By Hinchliffes
A recent Court decision has found in favour of a passenger who was injured when trying to get on a bus. The passenger fell from the Arriva owned bus after the driver had closed the doors on him and driven away, and as a result he ...
Hinchliffes News - http://www.hinchliffes.co.uk/news

Very sad news about C-Bus Magazine
By wyliemac
My friend Derek Grosso announced today the ceasation of publication C-Bus Magazine. Good luck Derek and Kristin. I’ll always be in your corner. ShareThis.
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Ürümchi Bus Bombing Rumors Abound; None Appear True
By OpkeHessip
The news of a bus bombing in the south part of town spread quickly through the city on Sunday night, coming to a head Monday evening, when those rumors were largely dispelled both popularly and by the official media. ...
The New Dominion » The New Dominion - http://www.thenewdominion.net

Switching up my commute
By Andrew Austin
It was uplifting to see a full bus as more and more people choose to get out of their single occupancy vehicles for the more relaxing and cheaper option. On a programming note, because a lot of my writing is based on my observations and ...
The Bus Stops Here - http://blogs.thenewstribune.com/bus

Passenger hurt as Hamilton bus is stoned by youths
Hamilton Advertiser news - Scotland,UK
A First Glasgow bus spokeswoman said: “We take all incidents of vandalism to our buses extremely seriously and stone throwing in particular is very ...
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Father of Autistic Boy Talks About Abuse Lawsuit
First Coast News - Jacksonville,FL,USA
The Duval County School District tells us the bus did have video capabilities at the time of the incidents, but it's unclear whether the events were ...
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Cameras capture wealth of images
ThisWeekNews - Columbus,OH,USA
By David Rea/Record If little Johnny jumps up and acts out on a South-Western City Schools bus, his principal is going to be waiting to sit him down and ...
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BJP takes to streets, wants BRT put on hold
Times of India - India
NEW DELHI: With assembly elections round the corner, political parties are also jumping into the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor to win some brownie points ...
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Newsreel 260308
By swra_sysop
Explaining the incidents Saungweme said Malinga’s supporters are also abducting MDC activists, then beating them up before handing them over to the police. The strategy he says is to ‘sanitize’ the assaults and make them look like ...
SWRadioAfrica Podcast - http://www.2bctnd.net/swra_wp

He’s Mixed Up His Planets
By RJ Adams
Details of the incident were also not immediately available. The department said in a statement the family of the deceased had been informed, and assistance would be given with the repatriation of the body. ...
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Bureaucracy wins again, or did it?
By Bob the Black Country Brummie(Bob the Black Country Brummie)
The Council lead on ASB gave him some advice which basically meant he had to continue reporting these incidents until it was recognised it was a “hot spot” then action would be taken. This upset the resident because he has been making ...
Bob the Black Country Brummie - http://midtids.blogspot.com/

My Daughter Is Being Bullied
By Melissa Garrett
It was a polite email, full of detailed incidents (including a word-for-word account of the letter so-and-so mailed to Hannah in which she said that they could not be friends at school and, by the way, my dad thinks other friend is a ...
woolgatherings - http://melissagarrett.wordpress.com

Bus Incident Reporting, Tracking and Analysis System
The goal of the project was to develop a basic bus incident reporting system for bus transit accidents and security incidents for Florida's public transit ...

Why only Blueline? DTC gets HC notice
Times of India - India
NEW DELHI: Wondering why DTC buses involved in accidents should not be subjected to same treatment like its Blueline counterparts and be impounded — to be ...
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‘DTC too should pay compensation to accident victims’
Thaindian.com - Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand
The Blueline buses in the capital have claimed 18 lives this year. Last year these “killer” buses had claimed 120 lives on
Delhi’s lawless roads.
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Your Gateway to Delhi
By Mayank Austen Soofi(Mayank Austen Soofi)
Reflective getaway from the city’s chaos and confusion; by Mayank Austen Soofi Viewpoint – Mrs. Sheila Dikshit’s Blueline Blues Here's why Delhi Chief Minister would rather walk than board a city bus; by Mayank Austen Soofi ...
The Delhi Walla - http://thedelhiwalla.blogspot.com/

Transit clarity
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
Current law bars RTD from condemning private property for uses that are not strictly related to transit. But the transit district's leadership has been ...
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Sound Transit project ousts shops in Seattle's Capitol Hill ...
Puget Sound Business Journal - Seattle,WA,USA
Sound Transit plans to demolish the block. Asif Rehan Alvi just signed what he dubs "the worst lease of my life." The owner of Perfect Copy and Print has ...
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Gas tax revenue will fund a 30-minute Saturday transit service if ...
Sault Star - Sault Ste-Marie,Ontario,Canada
Transit manager Don Scott reports that as a result of the changes and increased reliability, the Great Northern annual ridership has decreased by more than ...
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Rail transit gets $900M promise
Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Honolulu,HI,USA
A key congressman who oversees federal transit funding vowed yesterday to fight for $900 million to help build Honolulu's elevated mass transit system. ...
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'Try Transit Day' to spotlight Valley limits
Allentown Morning Call - Allentown,PA,USA
By Dan Hartzell | Of The Morning Call March 28, 2008 The Coalition for Appropriate Transportation is mapping a different course to its monthly ''Try Transit ...
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Intercity Transit responds to voters
The Olympian - Olympia,WA,USA
When voters approved an increase in the sales tax to fund transportation services, the message to Intercity Transit officials was to increase frequency on ...
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Mediator tries to get transit talks back on track
Globe and Mail - Canada
While the union will be in a legal strike position as of Wednesday, Bob Kinnear, president of Local 113 of the Amalgamated Transit
Union, ...
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Bike, transit use rising along with gas prices
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
British Columbians lead
Canada in turning to bicycles, public transit or selling their cars as an alternative to paying more on gas. ...
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Phila. visitors compare SEPTA to Toronto transit
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
By Paul Nussbaum TORONTO - Stepping past mounds of lingering snow melting at the curb, a group of 30 Philadelphia-area transit officials, planners and ...
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Talks resume for city transit contract
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
Contract talks are continuing today between the TTC and its transit workers' union, which has postponed a Tuesday strike deadline until at least later next ...
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Suspect in transit held in meth case
A southeast Missouri man wanted on a federal drug warrant was arrested yesterday in Boone County during a traffic stop.
ColumbiaTribune.com - News - http://www.columbiatribune.com

GREAT News! T-SPLOST passes!
By brent(brent)
Paired with sustained general support, these types of locally controlled TSPLOSTs will allow us to greatly expand our transit services. Expanded transit means more opportunities for more people, cleaner air, and, potentially, ...
BikeAthens Blog - http://bikeathens.blogspot.com/

the lazy way to invite people to a wedding
By jiva
Other good news includes both our cats being clean and tidy in the litter department. 3 days now and not a single mess out of place. (insert gospel music here with epic haleluya). Jaspper appears to be fully well again and full of the ...
Jiva a soul in transit - http://jiva.wordpress.com

radical women disrupt tranquility of Hill Climb
By snimp
“There’s also the MGCITP [minimum gasoline consumption in-transit protocol],” Ruskin added. “Every contestant must supply receipts proving that they did not exceed 11 miles per gallon while driving to
Jackson Hole. ...
JH Underground – News and Commentar... - http://www.jhunderground.com

Virginia Lawmakers Shy About Earmark Requests
By MGWashington.com(MGWashington.com)
Seeking millions of federal dollars for everything from building mass transit at Dulles International Airport to studying organic sheep meat in southwest Virginia, three of Virginia's 11-member congressional delegation released their ...
Local News for Washington Bureau - http://www.mgwashington.com/index.php/news

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Go here for a list AC Transit bus lines to BART stations. Go here for a list of AC Transit bus ... 08/09/2006 Get a Free Ride with AC Transit e-News go. ...

Police nab 34 in booze bus blitz
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
"Thirty four drivers were caught and that's 34 people who could have been involved in serious accidents, killed themselves or others," Insp Parr said. ...
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Masaka accident death toll up to seven
New Vision - Kampala,Uganda
“We expect the bus owners today,” Tanui added. Over 13 people perished in various accidents across the country this week. Sixty three have died since ...
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7 killed in Saudi road accident
Gulf Times - Doha,Qatar
RIYADH: Seven people were killed and 33 injured when a bus collided yesterday with a fuel tanker north of the Saudi capital Riyadh, the official SPA news ...
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Resting On My Case
By KELOLAND.com Blogs
There have been so many accidents on Highway 30 south of White, South Dakota, that they slow the highway traffic down to 45, just in case the cross traffic has you in their cross hairs, just in case they miss the 35 mile an hour speed ...
KELOLAND.com Blogs - http://blogs.keloland.com/blog/

20 hurt when school bus flips
MSNBC - USA
A charter bus carrying about 40 schoolchildren on a field trip to an aquarium overturned on a freeway near
Birmingham, injuring several passengers. ...
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Crisps advert pulled over bus crash scene
Scotsman - United Kingdom
By HELENA STUART A CRISPS manufacturer has withdrawn a television advert that shows the top of a bus being sliced off, after dozens of complaints from ...
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73-year-old bus passenger faces drug counts in Laredo
Houston Chronicle - United States
2008 AP LAREDO, Texas — An elderly passenger on a bus from Mexico faces drug charges in Laredo after cocaine and heroin, worth $1.1 million, were found in a ...
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Slashed bus tires close Taylor schools
Detroit Free Press - United States
Despite the setback, the school was still able to use one bus to transport
Career Center students to an annual Robotics Competition at Eastern Michigan ...
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Bus firm stops Davao-Cotabato trips
Inquirer.net - Philippines
By Edwin Fernandez COTABATO CITY – The lone bus firm servicing the Davao-Cotabato route is stopping its trips to
North Cotabato on April 1, ...
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Field trip bus carrying students to Tenn. crashes near Birmingham ...
International Herald Tribune - France
A charter bus carrying 46
Alabama school children on a field trip to an aquarium has overturned on a freeway near Birmingham. Four people, including three ...
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Coming and Going Bus Wars
Washington Post - United States
As a veteran
Chinatown bus rider, CoGo was happy to settle into clean and comfortable fabric seats with generous leg room and large windows untouched by ...
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Rate Your Brooklyn Bus Routes
New York Times - United States
By Sewell Chan For many Brooklynites, the public bus system is a lifeline for getting around. The B61 in Red Hook, the B37 in Bay Ridge, ...
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Taylor schools cancel classes after bus tires slashed
MLive.com - MI,USA
School bus vandalism last year forced class cancellations at several suburban Detroit school districts, as well as in Ohio and Connecticut.
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Bus Stops, Parking Signs and School Safety
Washington Post - United States
As a city reporter, I often get to story assignments by bus if I can, preferring to see the District through a big bus window instead of a dark Metro tunnel ...
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75 bus tires slashed in Taylor MI
By News Reporter
Public school students in
Taylor got a day off after 75 of the district's 83 buses were affected. More...
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North Africa Trip: Day 4
By Travis Snode
After a car, a ferry, a bus, another bus, a taxi, a plane, and another car, we made it back to our destination 12 hours later. I think that all of us who went on the trip will never be the same again. From preaching to a crowded room of ...
Northwest News! - http://northwestbc.wordpress.com

20 injured in crash
By cathy
Twenty people were injured early Friday morning when two passenger vehicles and a bus collided in Temecula. According to the Riverside County Fire Department, the collision happened just before
4 am at Interstate 15 and Winchester Road. ...
Riverside CA Inland Empire News... - http://www.instantriverside.com

Possible Good News For Slowing Down the Rampant Bureacracy In Europe?
By bikermailman
In the posts immediately prior to this one, however, we record three issues – important in their own right, the one affecting a small but successful wine-making enterprise; the other the damaging effect of EU law on bus companies and, ...
The Mailman's Bag - http://mailmansbag.wordpress.com

Downtown parking: A spot of one’s own
By webmaster@mountainx.com(webmaster@mountainx.com)
Newman, noting that Council is also in the process of analyzing bus transit routes in an effort to boost ridership and reduce vehicle traffic, said, “I think there is a myth that there are no spaces available, and there are. ...
MountainX: News - http://www.mountainx.com/news/

5 killed, 33 injured in separate incidents in four districts
The New Nation - Bangladesh
Police sources said the accident took place when a Charess-on bound passenger bus from Bhola fell into a roadside ditch at Banglabazar area as the bus tried ...
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Two held in Taylor bus vandalism
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA
This year has been mostly free from such incidents. Detroit News Staff Writer Santiago Esparza contributed to this report. You can reach Steve Pardo at ...
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STA finds faulty brake levers on Scania fleet: not on accident vehicle
Australasian Bus and Coach - Australia
Scania have not commented on the incident although it has been pointed out to Bus+Coach that the vehicle in question was 15 years old and STA may not use ...
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[EXPAT VOICE] And I smiled…
Today's Zaman - Istanbul,Turkey
Drivers like those in the incidents mentioned above make my mini-bus journeys bearable, drivers who with their acts of kindness warm the heart. ...
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Swift Current man charged with child abduction, sex offence
CBC Saskatchewan - Saskatchewan,Canada
Jug Gill, 30, is also facing a charge of invitation to sexual touching in connection to incidents that allegedly occurred late Wednesday evening. ...
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The curious incident of the boy at the bus-stop (Part 1)
By bulletharsha(bulletharsha)
It may or may not refer to real-life people and/or real-life incidents. All resemblances may or may not be coincidental. Once upon a time, in a locality far far away [so far away that most people don’t even consider it a part of The ...
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DailyProgress.com | Fluvanna updating rules after bus incident
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City gets federal funds to improve transit system
Daily Gleaner - Fredericton,New Brunswick,Canada
By SHAWN BERRY Fredericton will use its $1.7-million share of new federal funding for public transit to buy new buses and install an automatic vehicle ...
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New transit schedule needs council approval
Sault Star - Sault Ste-Marie,Ontario,Canada
Provincial gas tax revenue will fund a 30-minute Saturday transit service if city council gives the plan the nod at Monday's council meeting. ...
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Councillor explains transit-issue
Sarnia Observer - Ontario, Canada
Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) found that the TTC's failure to ensure announcements of all stops on buses and ...
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Greyhound puts brakes on Vermont Transit
Rutland Herald - Rutland,VT,USA
By Bruce Edwards Herald Staff The familiar green and white
Vermont Transit buses that have plied the highways of the state and New England for nearly 80 ...
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Transit systems in Regina to get $6-million upgrade
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
REGINA -- Transit systems in Regina will be getting a $6-million upgrade thanks to federal funding. "The money is certainly welcome. ...
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PM signals a truce with Ontario
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
In a bid to ease tensions between Canada's two largest governments, Harper yesterday freed up funding so Ontario can boost public transit, hire more police ...
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The Government of Canada invests in public transit for healthier ...
Canada NewsWire (press release) - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
"The Government of Canada is taking decisive action to support public transit in the country. Funding for transit has greatly increased in recent years, ...
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The benefits of pricey gas? More conservation, more transit riders
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
Transit ridership, up noticeably. Gas tax receipts, way up. And the price at the pump, way up. Californians burned less gas in the last quarter of 2007 than ...
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Fighting over the spoils
Pioneer Press - St. Paul,MN,USA
Ripped from the Pioneer Press headlines, 'Fight erupts over new sales taxes for transit. At issue: whether money should be used to bail out Met Council. ...
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BART board approves car update expenditure
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
The board of directors of the Bay Area Rapid Transit District on Thursday approved expenditure of $2.7 million to nearly double the number of worn-out seats ...
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Ford concept cab causes stir
By admin
Ford is trying to sell its Transit Connect and in
New York showcased it as a taxi because the city is "the taxi capital of the US," said Sanch. At the Chicago auto show it was shown as a possible catering or construction vehicle. ...
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Breaking news (and it's good news!)
By Kerry(Kerry)
The Bus Rapid Transit scheme has been shelved: www.epost.co.uk. Congratulations to everyone who supported the campaign. Sunday's march and rally will still be going ahead, to get across the message that we don't want the scheme ...
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How this blog got started…
By smcmaster1995
Sometimes, like with streetcars or other mass transit, the local government doesn’t go directly into the business. They might sell franchises allowing private firms to use public assets (the road right-of-way), or they might create a ...
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hit it once and forget it
By sobrikay
i think it might be losing personal touch. if flipping through nightly news programs this evening was indication. not one story without statistical context. one that reported a “revenue increase” for a fuel-pummeled business sector as ...
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Death Toll in Majma Bus Crash Rises to 9
Arab News - Jeddah,Saudi Arabia
RIYADH, 30 March 2008 — The death toll from Thursday’s horrific accident when a bus went up in flames after colliding with an oil tanker at Jalajil near ...
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3 techies die in accidents
Times of India - India
As she was crossing the road to board a bus, a truck knocked her down. The traffic police said the truck driver fled the spot after the accident. ...
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Hansen: Ex-driver, blind riders cite roadblocks to bus safety
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
What's more, this was the driver's ninth "preventable" accident, which sounded like about seven too many to everybody waiting for a bus. ...
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Blueline, Redline
Outlook (subscription) - New Delhi,India
But Blueline accidents -- no, murders -- have been happening everyday. We blame the government and the government blames the bus owners. ...
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Adventure Bus company to undergo federal compliance review ...
al.com - Birmingham,AL,USA
Buses from Adventure Bus have been involved in other accidents in the past two years. On
June 8, 2006, a bus with the company was involved in a ...
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No parking zone: Jennings Station security officer says cars in ...
Lufkin Daily News - Lufkin,TX,USA
... A Jennings Station security officer is asking drivers to steer clear of designated city bus loading zones in hopes of preventing a possible accident. ...
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School bus seat belts won't be required
Hays Daily News - Hays,KS,USA
Statistics from the state Department of Roads, according to Harms, shows school buses were involved in 113 separate accidents in 2006. ...
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Repetitions
By willow1997
(Kate's) boyfriend, shot by a gun, When she was robbing a bank for a toy plane she had killed her boyfriend ( maybe by accident). (Juliet's) ex husband, bus accident, Juliet is free to join Others. All survivors of 815, plane crash ...
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aegion @ 2008-03-29T14:00:00
By aegion(aegion)
I think minor school bus accidents are funny. I don't mean the ones where the bus tips over and people get seriously hurt, that's not funny at all. I just like the ones where the bus goes over a little bump or something and kids fly up ...
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Interesting news from the San Joaquin Valley March meeting
By Russ Jackson
Included are such ideas as fostering better communication and understanding among stakeholders at all levels, develop a menu of options that can be deployed to enhance safety and reduce delays to trains as a result of accidents, ...
Rail Passenger Association of... - http://www.railpac.org

Air Speed Indicators . Peter W Jones AMInstP . . In drawing ...
By caravanaccidents
Currently I do not think the DfT have any records concerning HGV or caravan accidents resulting from the effects of the wind, as this in the past has not been properly recognised as a serious problem.
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