Sunday, March 16, 2008

3-16-08

School bus driver falls out of seat in Seaside, student takes over
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
By Clarissa Aljentera Marina High School sophmore Amanda Rouse, 15, stands beside a row of school busses at the
Monterey Unified School District bus yard in ...
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Bus accident kills 23 students in Syria
Washington Post - United States
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Twenty-three high school students were killed on Friday when a bus carrying them on a recreation trip overturned and hit a house in a ...
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Man dies after being dragged by bus
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
An 82-year-old man was killed when he was dragged for several metres under a Montreal Transit Corp. bus yesterday in Nôtre Dame de Grâce. ...
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Rumsey Band finances added Yolo bus service
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
... which is widely used by casino employees, and to contribute $500000 to purchase an additional bus to increase capacity on the route. ...
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Injuries reported in Dallas school bus accident
Houston Chronicle - United States
AP DALLAS — An accident involving a small bus carrying students to a charter school for the hearing-impaired has resulted in an undetermined number of ...
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Teens arrested after bus mall robberies
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
By SP Staff, TheStarPhoenix.com Police have arrested three young people after four people were attacked and threatened at the Confederation Mall bus depot ...
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Airport hijacker takes the bus
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
The man - who escaped during a transfer from Mt Eden Prison to Wanganui Prison - ordered shocked and shaking passengers out of the bus. ...
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School bus driver falls out of seat in Seaside, student takes over
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
AP A teenager's quick reaction aboard an out-of-control school bus in
Seaside may have saved lives. Bus driver Christine Graves fell out of her seat and hit ...
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Boris labelled a bus-basher
Guardian - UK
At PMQs, Islington MP Emily Thornberry brought up the Great Bus Row, enabling the PM to depict an infuriated MP for
Henley as a bus-basher. ...
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Texas Bus Crash Sends 13 to Hospital
The Associated Press -
DALLAS (AP) — A school bus crash in
Texas has sent 13 people to hospitals. The bus was taking students to a school for the hearing impaired when the bus and ...
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Beep beep beep on the bus
By Ewan
Sat on the bus at the moment on the way to
Victoria. Efficient way of getting round London.I am surrounded by people from all walks of life — and they are all texting! Every single one of them. One huge, huge lady sat behind me is ...
SMS Text News - http://www.smstextnews.com

Pinewood Derby winner has Beatle-themed Magical Mystery bus!
By Matt
I always try to check which blogs and websites are linking here to the blog. I am amazed the places that link to my little site. There is such a variety of places and people that link here for various reasons. Some of them are spam, ...
I read the news today: All Beatle news. - http://beatle.wordpress.com

Snap o’ the day: Idling bus
By hawes
As the sun begins to rise behind the
Charlottesville Ice Park, a chartered UTS bus idles emptily. Delegate David Toscano got a bill, HB 885, through both houses of the General Assembly this year that would allow localities to outlaw ...
The Hook News Blog - http://www.readthehook.com/blog

Escapee prisoner kidnapped bus at New Zealand
By admin
The man, who has not yet identified, seized the Airport Express bus at
Auckland Airport after escaping from guards while being transferred with six others at the domestic terminal. An official said that no bus passengers were injured ...
Daily News - http://www.dailynews365.com

Telephonic Journalism the new Saigon news technique
By Toby Nunn
While assisting a bomb blast that struck a civilian bus that was in the vicinity of the convoy immediately to our front I did not see a single news reporter or media person. By the time I got to my destination the reports were already ...
Northern Disclosure - http://www.tobynunn.com/northerndisclosure/

Sri Lanka President directly accountable accuses FMM
TamilEelamNews.com - Sri Lanka
According to initial reports, Hettige was waiting to catch a bus to office around 7.45 am near his home at Kotikawatte, when unidentified persons had ...
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Spy cameras helping curb bus shelter vandalism
Bolton News - Bolton,England,UK
By Saiqa Chaudhari A scheme to introduce CCTV was launched a year ago and figures for 2007 show the number of incidents dropped almost 20 per cent in the ...
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Leeds school's award for bus behaviour
Yorkshire Evening Post - Leeds,England,UK
SAFEMark is given to those schools which make a commitment to improve safety and the behaviour of pupils on school and regular bus services. ...
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Security under scrutiny
Fiji Times - Suva,Fiji
The incident that seized Australia's attention was the hijacking of a tourist bus with 10 Australian travel agents aboard in the centre of the ancient ...
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Transit passengers report attacks
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
On Thursday night, three teens allegedly attacked four people standing at the bus depot in two separate incidents. A 16-year-old male suffered a cut lip as ...
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Creepshow bus shenanigans
By Penelope
But because I was a bit frightened that he’d follow me off the bus, I just said “thanks” and put my headphones back on, stared straight ahead, and hoped for the best. The thing that peeves me about incidents like these is that a bizarre ...
Mommy No Mommy - http://mommynomommy.wordpress.com

Raod Works and Devon County Council
By David(David)
The above incident actually took 5 minutes which is a long time to be stopped if you are a passenger wanting to get home or a person at a stop further up the road wondering where the bus is. Personally I think once we have explained the ...
busdriving - http://busdriving.blogspot.com/

TAKING ABUSE ISN'T PART OF THE CONTRACT
"We need to make the change now because the fewer people pipe up, the more likely it is that incidents like these will continue." PROTECT YOURSELF Top tips to help protect your safety in the workplace. If you are experiencing any form ...
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mini-guide: KOSOVO, a brand new country…
By nicolas
Conflict is quite often foreseeable long in advance, so if you’re planning to go, check the news several weeks in advance to make sure that no major ‘incidents’ have occurred that could lead to rioting or other civil conflict. ...
[ tourism to-be ] - http://tourismtobe.wordpress.com

Blueline owner thrashes traffic cop
Times of India - India
NEW
DELHI: The owner of a Blueline bus was arrested on Friday afternoon near Uttam Nagar in west Delhi after he allegedly assaulted a traffic policeman. ...
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Blueline crushes biker in S Delhi
Times of India - India
NEW
DELHI: A 21-year-old youth was killed and his cousin injured in an accident when a Blueline bus tailgated their bike on Wednesday night. ...
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$223G transit windfall boosts coffers at city hall
St. Thomas Times-Journal - St. Thomas,Ontario,Canada
29 that
St. Thomas was “the recipient of funding” for public transit. Funded through the 2007 Ontario Economic Outlook and Fiscal Review, the one-time cash ...
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GO-getter offered seat at table
Globe and Mail - Canada
Yesterday she spoke at the monthly meeting of the GO Transit board, calmly and fiercely arguing the case of the 11000 riders who signed her petition for ...
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Sprucing up 69 TTC stations
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
TTC says it has money at last for Mr. Clean rescue of dirty, dreary stops on subway map It's been a dark and dirty ride, but the Toronto Transit Commission ...
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Welland, Port transit systems will keep rolling along after takeover
Welland Tribune - Ontario, Canada
But other than that,
Welland Transit manager Graham Morrison said the takeover of Port Colborne's transit system won't mean any really significant changes ...
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Transit adopts new alerting system
Sarnia Observer - Ontario, Canada
The Ontario government is forcing
Sarnia Transit to adopt an expensive solution to a nonexistent problem, the manager of the city's bus company says. ...
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Fed-up commuter petitions GO transit
Brantford Expositor - Canada
TORONTO - A woman from Oakville, fed up with train delays has presented GO Transit brass with a petition demanding better service. ...
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B290bn in domestic bond issues needed to fund mass-transit work
Bangkok Post - Thailand
The government will float 290 billion baht worth of domestic bonds to finance the new
Bangkok mass-transit megaprojects, according to Pongpanu Svetarundra, ...
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Bringing Google Transit to LA
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
If only we had a similar app for public transit.... Actually, Google does have a public transit app -- It's just not available for LA -- yet. ...
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Hundreds sign petition for rapid transit
Winnipeg Sun - Canada
By SUN MEDIA More than 1000 Winnipeggers want a rapid transit system, according to a peitition urging all levels of government to create one. ...
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EU to stay dependant on Russian gas transit states
Guardian - UK
By Amie Ferris-Rotman MOSCOW, March 14 (Reuters) - The European Union will continue to depend on ex-Soviet transit states for the delivery of Russian gas ...
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Study: Public Transit Saves Gas in Michigan
By Media Mouse(Media Mouse)
Last week, the Public Interest Research Group in Michigan (PIGRIM) released a study titled "A Better Way to Go: Meeting America's 21st Century Transportation Challenges with Modern Public Transit" that explores how public transit can ...
Media Mouse: Grand Rapids, Michigan... - http://www.mediamouse.org/

Mapping Bay Area Transit
By Eric
It is hardly news that Bay Area transit websites are, on the whole, rather lackluster. The 511 Transit Planner has the benefit of covering for the Bay Area’s large collection of transit agencies, but it is sometimes slow and unwieldy, ...
Transbay Blog - http://transbayblog.com

Boulder transit stays up late
Students looking for a way to get home after St. Patrick's Day celebrations will have a safe means of transportation thanks to Late Night Transit.
Campus Press - http://www.thecampuspress.com

Survey Results Released: Sound Transit on the ballot in 2008?
By Andrew Austin
The most recent Sound Transit plan being kicked around is covered well here. It would greatly increase the amount of heavy rail between
Seattle and Tacoma, which would start running all day. I think this section is good news. ...
The Bus Stops Here - http://blogs.thenewstribune.com/bus

Russia in Afghanistan again? The impact!
By moinansari
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has also separately signaled Russia’s readiness to provide military transit to Afghanistan for NATO provided “an agreement is concluded on all aspects of the Afghan problem between NATO and the ...
Rupee News: Editor's Disquisitions... - http://rupeenews.com

BRAC official among 3 killed in road accidents
The New Nation - Bangladesh
... were killed in road and boat accidents in Habiganj and Barguna districts on Thursday. In Barguna, a BRAC official was killed when a bus rammed into an ...
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Los Angeles Lawyers Say that Daylight Savings Time Leads To More ...
Los Angeles Chronicle - CA, USA
The AC Transit bus that was involved in an accident was a multi vehicle accident that occurred in the westbound lanes of Highway 80 in the vicinity of ...
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Threats, beatings and death - it's an election!
By Joe Mackertich
A friend of mine is the driver of that ubiquitous African mode of transport, the mini-bus. Or at least he was, until this week, when a gang of Mugabe's Zanu-PF thugs asked him to put a portrait of our President in the window of his ...
Zimbabwe Today - http://www.zimbabwetoday.co.uk/

Just wrote this to the ST Forum. While the haphazard lane changing ...
By arsonandarsenic
I would like to ask if the LTA can furnish data about the levels of traffic accidents within the CBD, related to “haphazard lane changes by taxis along heavily used roads to pick up or alight passengers” and how this compares to the ...
Arson and Arsenic - http://arsonarsenic.wordpress.com

Daily Crime Incidents for March 15, 2008
By spdk(spdk)
A case of
Non Fatal Road accident has been registered in Mangalore Rural Police Station. On 14/03/2008 at 0710 hrs on NH 17 at Jeppinamogeru Mangalore one Balakrishna driver of bus bearing Reg. No. KA-19-A-3393 drove his vehicle in a ...
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Overweight Dump rammed a School Bus
By Apostolic
IMAGES: Dump Truck Collides With Kindergarten School Bus - Photos - WGAL Lancaster.
Truckingboards Truck Drivers Forum - http://www.truckingboards.com/trucking/upload

Discipline Despite Calif. Bus Rescue
The Associated Press -
(AP) — A 15-year-old girl who stopped an out-of-control school bus she was riding on was handed a Saturday detention instead because she was skipping school ...
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Mob sets killer bus ablaze
Times of India - India
while racing with another bus at
Salt Lake on Saturday afternoon. Debjani Sinha was taken to hospital in a critical condition, where she died in the evening ...
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12 killed, 30 injured in Peruvian bus crash
Xinhua - China
LIMA, March 15 (Xinhua) -- At least 12 people were killed and another 30 injured in a serious bus collision in Peru's northwestern Ancash province, ...
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Bus torched after killing woman
The Statesman - Kolkata,India
KOLKATA, March 15: Locals set a private bus on fire near Bidyut Bhawan in
Salt Lake this afternoon after a bus hit a car driven by a 22-year-old woman ...
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Disabled pushed out of bus
Times of India - India
KOLKATA: A physically challenged passenger was assaulted and pushed out of a government bus at Dakshineswar on Saturday evening. Adding insult to injury, ...
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Bus driver charged with giving false info on Mas Selamat seeks ...
Straits Times (subscription) - Singapore,Singapore
By Elena Chong, Court Correspondent THE bus driver charged earlier this week with three counts of giving false information to the police on fugitive Mas ...
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Runaway bus kills pedestrian in Montreal
Globe and Mail - Canada
Montreal -- A runaway Montreal city bus with a sick driver behind the wheel mowed down an 82-year-old pedestrian yesterday afternoon. ...
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Pensioner dies after bus accident
BBC News - UK
A pensioner has died in hospital after she was knocked down by a bus in
Bolton town centre. The 78-year-old woman was in collision with the single-decker ...
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Study to help determine need for regular bus service along US 278
Hilton Head Island Packet - Hilton Head Island,SC,USA
Area transportation groups have hired a local tourism professor to study the feasibility of a bus route along US 278 that would run daily and make regular ...
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22 students burned alive in Iran bus fire
AFP -
TEHRAN (AFP) — Twenty-two university students were killed in a fire when their bus collided with a vehicle transporting fuel in western Iran, the official ...
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Job Opportunity at “Off The Bus
By Dan Gillmor
Amanda Michel writes from Off the Bus:. The Huffington Post’s citizen-powered presidential campaign news site, OffTheBus, is looking for an experienced journalist to join our small team as an online news producer/reporter. ...
Center for Citizen Media: Blog - http://citmedia.org/blog

Three passengers injured as goons attack Blueline bus
By India eNews
Three passengers were injured when a mob of 20-25 men attacked a Blueline bus in west Delhi with sticks, rods and stones, the police said Saturday, adding the motive of the mob was not clear.
IndiaeNews.com: Asia News - http://www.indiaenews.com/

For the Sake of the Children
By CRIMES AND CORRUPTION OF THE NEW WORLD...(CRIMES AND CORRUPTION OF THE NEW WORLD...)
Your bus or taxi has to drop you off at the border, and somebody has to pick you up on the other side. We entered a wire tunnel resembling a cattle-pen, and surprised a dozing Israeli soldier. He awoke with a start, astonishment written ...
CRIMES AND CORRUPTION OF THE... - http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/

Second Facists … The University Teachers Reopot Part II
By srilankareports
On one occasion in 2006, Rudra of the Karuna Group was caught near the Pettah CTB bus stand in
Colombo in the act of receiving extortion money. It was Ven. M we learn who got him released by the police. ...
Sri Lanka's Situation Reports::... - http://srilankareports.wordpress.com

Early morning stabbing in Surrey
Two men have been taken to hospital after an early morning stabbing in Surrey. RCMP got the call around 1:30 that up to 20 men were fighting near the Surrey Central bus loop. Both injured men were ...

Metro crime-free during Pacquiao fight...almost
ABS CBN News - Philippines
Investigators recovered a bullet casing from a .45 pistol inside the bus. Aside from the bus robbery incident, police said the situation was generally ...
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A Day to Remember
Washington Post - United States
There was a fair share of typical incidents, such as kids tripping, referrals from the drivers about student behavior, and a few late buses because of ...
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Not a place for pedestrians
Houston Chronicle - United States
Although pedestrians are dying on the freeway at a rate of about two per month, only a few incidents capture attention, such as the motorcycle officer hit ...
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Fire Mervyn, SLRC unions ask President
Sunday Times.lk - Columbo,Sri Lanka
Mr. Hettige the SLRC Sevaka Sangamaya President was attacked by two unidentified men at Kotikawatte on Friday at about 7:45 am while waiting to take a bus ...
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Bus Shelters Vandalized in Hull Sector
By Eric Jacksch
During the evening of the
January 6, 2008 between 9pm and 10pm, seven bus shelters were smashed on Cité des Jeunes Boulevard between Montbleu Blvd to St-Raymond Blvd. The incidents began near the CEGEP and ended near the CHRO Hospital. ...
National Capital Area Crime Stoppers - http://www.crimestoppers.ca/

PNP gets no report of crimes all over the country during Pacquiao ...
By Ron Calunsod(Ron Calunsod)
Bartolome said regardless of whether the bus robbery incident in NCR happened during or after the fight of Pacquiao and Marquez, this statistics “indicate that there was really a very good situation all over the country.” ...


KSTP.com - Saint Paul,MN,USA
Metro Transit is stepping into help you get home safely. It is offering free rides through its "No Fares, No Blarney" program. People can ride Metro Transit ...
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Fitch Rates Utah Transit Authority's $700MM 2008A Sales Tax Rev ...
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wien,Austria
Fitch Ratings has assigned an 'AA' rating to Utah Transit Authority's $700 million sales tax revenue bonds, series 2008 A. Bond proceeds will be used ...
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Fake Currency: NE a major transit point
MorungExpress - Dimapur,Assam,India
Sources in the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the
Assam police admitted that Assam has became one of the major transit routes for counterfeit ...
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Sprinter gets good reviews, for most part
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
So many people showed up to try out the new blue, white and teal Sprinter that North County Transit District, the developer of the $478 million line, ...
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Time in Transit launches website for air passengers
AME Info (press release) - United Arab Emirates
Time in Transit has launched its website to offer air passengers options on what to do when connecting through an airport. ...
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Editorial: Transit in Yolo moves ahead, thanks to tribe
Sacramento Bee - CA, USA
Thanks to the Rumsey Band of Wintun Indians, the tribe that operates Cache Creek Casino, transit service in
Yolo County just got a lot bigger. ...
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Flooding fix at an impasse NJ Transit, developers, and city ...
Hudson Reporter - Hoboken,NJ,USA
One station was expected for the southeast part of
Hoboken by Observer Highway, an area owned by NJ Transit. Sewerage Authority Director Fred Pocci charged ...
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Panel seeks thoughts on transit
Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Sarasota,FL,USA
... this week in
Sarasota and Manatee counties to get the public's ideas for mass transit and other modes of transportation that could cross county lines. ...
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Take a wild ride on the Rio Transit
Rio Rancho Observer - Rio Rancho,NM,USA
For 10 years, the
Rio Transit program has been transporting qualified individuals throughout the city and even sometimes down the hill to Albuquerque. ...
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Transit board to review marketing plan, fares
Marin Independent-Journal - San Rafael,CA,USA
A strategic marketing plan for local transit and a new fare collection system will be reviewed Monday by the Marin Transit District board. ...
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All the news that fits
By freewheeler(freewheeler)
... workers less able to afford additional commuting costs.” Thus it would be more accurate to say that congestion pricing imposes a fee on upper middle class and wealthy drivers in an effort to improve public transit, especially buses.
Crap Cycling & Walking in Waltham Forest - http://crapwalthamforest.blogspot.com/

Who says Americans live in a culture of fear?
By ekrgriseldastephanie
Since I don’t watch the news, this lovely bit of mass hysteria didn’t catch up with me until today. A few weeks ago two artists were hired to make and distribute advertisements for the upcoming AquaSince I don’t watch the news, ...
Ekrgriseldastephanie's Weblog - http://ekrgriseldastephanie.wordpress.com

Metro counties want to keep sales tax revenue for transit
County commissioners from the metro area say they want funds from a possible quarter-cent sales tax increase to go toward transitways in the Twin Cities -- not toward the state's budget gap...
kstp.com - MORE NEWS - http://kstp.com/article/stories/s154022.shtml?cat=1

Are we a Great City? Highlights from the State of the City Address
By Joe
“I want to say tonight that I join our Governor, Ted Strickland, in urging Amtrak and the Federal Government to bring a rapid transit passenger line through
Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati.” “I am committed to investing $20 million ...
Columbus Real Estate Notes on... - http://www.columbushomesblog.com

Mankato Heartland Express News
By John Charles Wilson(John Charles Wilson)
Minnesota State University, Mankato routes to end service in May Due to the end of spring semester at Minnesota State University, Mankato, the last day of service for route 1 (The Campus Express), route 8 (The Parking Lot Shuttle) and ...
Twin Cities Transit Blog - http://tctrans.blogspot.com/

Three passengers injured as goons attack Blueline bus
Thaindian.com - Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand
New Delhi, March 15 (IANS) Three passengers were injured when a mob of 20-25 men attacked a Blueline bus in west Delhi with sticks, rods and stones, ...
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Better infrastructure woos filmmakers to Delhi
Economic Times - Gurgaon,Haryana,India
16 Mar, 2008, 1441 hrs IST, PTI NEW DELHI: It may have chaotic traffic and killer blueline buses, the Capital, however, is fast becoming a favourite place ...
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Better infrastructure woos filmmakers to the Capital
Press Trust of India - New Delhi,India
New Delhi, Mar 16 (PTI) It may have chaotic traffic andkiller blueline buses, the Capital, however, is fast becominga favourite place for movie producers ...
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