Wednesday, March 19, 2008

3-19-08

Forums seek input on mass transit
Indianapolis Star - United States
The Central Indiana Regional Transportation Authority will have two community forums that are part of a series of community events to gather input from ...
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Seniors step up as free transit rides begin
Chicago Tribune - United States
By Richard Wronski | Tribune reporter 11:59 PM CDT, March 17, 2008 A new era in mass transit dawned in Illinois Monday as senior citizens climbed aboard ...
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Transit glorious
Seattle Times - United States
Skyrocketing gasoline prices, more transit options and a customer-service sensibility gave King County Metro Transit and Sound Transit a glorious 2007. ...
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Perth first city on Google Transit
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
Perth will be the first Australian city to access the latest addition to the Google stable - Google Transit. The online mapping site, ...
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Runaway bus crashes onto rail tracks in peak hour
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
A short time after 7am, the 12-tonne No.289 State Transit Authority bus careered through a fence onto a railway line at Langston Place, Epping, ...
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Seniors step up as free transit rides begin
Chicago Tribune - United States
By Richard Wronski | Tribune reporter 6:50 PM CDT, March 17, 2008 A new era in mass transit dawned in Illinois Monday as senior citizens climbed aboard ...
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Runaway bus: Close call for Sydney commuters
ABC Online - Australia
The bus driver has been stood down as the State Transit Authority (STA) investigates how the vehicle rolled. A spokeswoman says the bus passed a Roads and ...
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Triangle Transit no longer has Authority
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
TTA, the regional transportation group, will now be known as simply "Triangle Transit," it said Monday. The organization also rolled out a new logo, ...
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Porter: Democrats will insist on cash for mass transit
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
That’s what House Minority Leader DuBose Porter said Monday at a rally for mass transit proponents at the state Capitol. “We cannot pave our way out of ...
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Illinois seniors start riding free on public transit
WQAD - Moline,IL,USA
The governor's office has said about 1.3 million seniors live in areas with mass transit. Blagojevich celebrated the start of the free rides with seniors at ...
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RIPIRG Calls for Transit Vision
By marygrady
Public transit reduces oil dependence, traffic congestion, and global warming pollution — no question. So improving the transit system for
Rhode Island would have a great positive impact on our environment overall. ...
Natural News Network - http://www.naturalnews.net/wordpress

Ford Transit Connect Taxi
New shots of the Ford Transit Connect, dressed up like a New York City cab, as it was being photographed on the streets of Detroit.
News Servant.com / cars - http://www.newsservant.com/cars

Transportation group praises new license center
By Express-Times staff
The new
PennDOT Driver License Center in Palmer Township opens today, and it gets a thumbs up from the Coalition for Appropriate Transportation. CAT said in a news release that the new center is public transit accessible, so those who. ...
Lehigh Valley Live Breaking News - http://blog.pennlive.com/lvbreak

State tells students ‘Keep your pants up!’
The News-Press - Fort Myers,FL,USA
By Christina Cepero • ccepero@news-press.com • March 15, 2008 Wearing pants that reveal their skivvies on school grounds could cost Florida public school ...
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Booster Bust
By Deborah LeBlanc
When year-round daylight time was tried in 1973, one reason it was repealed was because of an increased number of school bus accidents in the morning. A further study of traffic accidents throughout
Canada in 1991 and 1992 by Stanley ...
Storytellersunplugged - http://www.storytellersunplugged.com

Bangladesh
By admin
Bus accidents are common and that’s not surprising because the roads are narrow and crappy and the drivers are insane. Buses operate with a driver and what I like to call the shouter. The driver hoons along in the middle of the narrow ...
Wanderstruck - http://www.wanderstruck.com/guide

St. Patrick's in the Paris of the East - Shanghai, China
I can't even believe how few accidents there are but we've definitly seen a couple. One happened today as a cab tried to drive between two buses on a two lane road (one bus of which was ours) and of course hit the other bus...oddley ...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates - http://www.travelpod.com

TCS Interview Questions - Part 15
By Shivlee Aggarwal(Gaurav Nanda)
fire on the bussy french motorail equivalent system.this sort of accidents is not possible in a closed shuttle. assertinos that a vehical fire. will lead to catastophe have no basis. since the resoures exit do detect,control and ...
Job Interview Questions - http://interviewhelper.blogspot.com/

Vehicle Accident Settlement
By smilingfaces
... vehicles involved in the accident that caused serious injuries are both cars, imagine the damage and injuries that will be sustained if the collision involves a car and a truck or a car and motorcycle or even a motorcycle and a bus. ...

Man dies after his car collides with school bus near Lincoln
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
A 50-year-old man has died after his compact car crossed into oncoming lanes on a highway north of the state capital and collided with a school bus. ...
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Spitzer Call Girl Already Gone 'Wild'
The Associated Press -
After fighting with a friend and getting thrown out of her hotel, Dupre found a nearby "Girls Gone Wild" bus, the company said. She signed legal papers and ...
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Man stabbed for saying hello on TTC bus
National Post - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
By Matthew Liebenberg, National Post A west-end
Toronto man was stabbed by a fellow bus passenger angry he had said hello, sparking a debate on how friendly ...
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Gloves off in battle of the bendy bus
Guardian - UK
Ken Livingstone called on Boris Johnson to withdraw his transport manifesto, claiming that the Tory mayoral candidate's plans for
London's bus network had ...
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4 teens found involved in city bus beating
Baltimore Sun - United States
A judge in
Baltimore has found four teens involved -- the juvenile equivalent of guilty -- in an assault on a passenger on a bus in December. ...
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Seven hurt after school bus, car collide on icy road near Faribault
Pioneer Press - St. Paul,MN,USA
Seven people were injured today when a school bus and car collided head-on while traveling on slushy roads near Faribault. Around
7:45 am, a car driving ...
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Narrow escape as bus driver misses her stop
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
Multimedia: Witness gives a dramatic description of moment when bus rolled backwards down a slope onto train tracks. Video: Eyewitness footage of the ...
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School canceled in Falmouth after vandals slash bus tires
Boston Herald - United States
By AP FALMOUTH - Vandals have struck the
Falmouth school bus fleet, forcing officials to cancel all schools for the day. Police said in a statement that the ...
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Police seek witnesses to fatal bus crash
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
Montreal police are asking for passengers who were on an eastbound number 66 bus last Friday when it fatally struck an elderly man to come forward to help ...
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Cottage in path of bus project to go
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
By Mathew Dearnaley An 86-year-old cottage outside Auckland University's medical school in Grafton is about to be demolished for a $43 million bus corridor ...
Wheels on the bus go round & round
By Lisa
A man, “obviously drunk,” says Cox, waved at a bus to stop, and when it didn’t, lurched into the side of the bus, and fell into the street “with his head in the path of the right rear tire.” The bus stopped, according to Cox, ...
The Hook News Blog - http://www.readthehook.com/blog

More on street bus ticket dispensers
By CR
Bus ticket dispensers on the street are deemed a success by Lothian Buses and we can expect to see more of them. See here for more information.
- http://www.politics-scotland.co.uk

City Bus Routes Being Tweaked
MICHIGAN CITY - The city transit agency began tweaking bus routes this month to better serve those trying to get to two new retail stores.
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Californian Schoolgirl Stops Runaway Bus - And Gets A Detention
By admin
Amanda Rouse was sitting on the school bus with 40 younger children when the driver fell out of the seat and hit her head after going round a bend. Read more.
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Boy sentenced in school bus assault
By Tom Tolen | The Ann Arbor News
By TOM TOLEN The Ann Arbor News An 11-year-old boy involved in a sexual assault against another boy aboard a Howell School bus was placed on two years probation Monday. He and his parents appeared for a dispositional hearing in...
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