Saturday, March 29, 2008

3-29-08

Bus riders, bicyclist, others injured in traffic accidents
Lancaster Newspapers - Lancaster,PA,USA
By JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff About a dozen people, including a bicyclist and and five students on a school bus, were hurt in traffic accidents reported ...
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3 dead, 10 wounded in accidents
GreaterKashmir.com (press release) - Srinagar,Jammu and Kashmir,India
Srinagar, Mar 25: Three persons died while 10 others were injured in two different road accidents in Kashmir Valley. A passenger bus bearing registration ...
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Can a simple bus be so hated?
BBC News - UK
Headlines like "Bendy buses fail the disabled", "Accidents surge as bendy buses take over", "Bendy bus victim set for £1/2m payout" and "Bendy bus drags man ...
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Police: Emilio was driving bus without proper license
Beaumont Enterprise - Beaumont,TX,USA
Holloway said investigators took a blood sample from Navaira, standard practice in serious accidents, to test for alcohol or other substances. ...
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It's still mess uninterrupted
Times of India - India
Sunday night's accident took place because the Maruti car, driving in the bus lane, drove straight into the bus lane starting after the crossing, ...
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Bus overturn leaves 27 dead in Iran
PRESS TV - Tehran,Iran
Approximately 4000 road accidents occur in
Iran every year claiming the lives of over 30000 people. The majority of road accidents in Iran are the result of ...
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Doctors begin to warm Emilio's body
abc13.com - Houston,TX,USA
... accidents along that area of the
West Loop. Eyewitness News has learned that Tejano singer Emilio did not have the proper license to drive his tour bus. ...
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California School Bus Accidents and Bodily Injury in Carson City ...
Los Angeles Chronicle - CA, USA
One of the worst fears a parent has when they have school aged children would be the fear of a school bus accident requiring Los Angeles school bus accident ...
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Parents wonder about school bus safety
Twin Cities Planet - Minneapolis,Minnesota,USA
The Office of the Legislative Auditor reports that of the 625 bus accidents in 2006, about 30 percent were attributable to bus driver error. ...
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8 passengers hurt as bus flips near Toronto
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
Another bus was dispatched to move the passengers from the scene of the accident. Police say it had been snowing all day and highways were slippery. ...
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7 Kindergartners Injured in School Bus Accident
By Ron Simpson(Ron Simpson)
Seven kindergartners and a school bus driver were taken to a hospital with minor injuries. It seems the past few months have been filled with news stories of school buss accidents where children have been injured. ...
The Cluttered Eclectic Mind - http://clutteredeclecticmind.blogspot.com/

Now, who can make a difference?
By aaronlo
What about bus accident? Each festive season, it is not at all surprising to see bus accidents caused by bus drivers who had torrents of unsettled summons. Are we to be blamed for that? Or should those in power who are negligent enough ...
Aaron Lo - http://aaronlo.wordpress.com

Bendy buses.
By jerichokb
The bendy bus has had accidents associated with it, yes. But not so many as to pose a massive danger to public health. Plenty of other cities have been using them for years without the same outcry. The bendy bus is long, yes. And? ...
Fitting the battle of life - http://jerichokb.wordpress.com

Finglas Forays over the years
By allaboutbuses
With Finglas bus services in the news, the need to get some up to date shots prompted me to look back through my collection to remember previous visits.Below are a selection of pictures and commentary from last Sunday, ...
AllAboutBuses - http://allaboutbuses.wordpress.com

Dangerous Alberta highway claims another victim after two semis ...
By mhudema
There are often big lineups of traffic along the stretch of single-lane highway where the latest accident happened, about 45 kilometres north of
Fort McMurray, Schimanke said. “There is a lot of traffic there. Workers coming to and from ...
STOP: Stop Tar Sands Operations... - http://stoptarsands.wordpress.com

27 killed in Iran bus accident - Middle East Times
27 killed in Iran bus accident. Published: March 25, 2008. A file photo shows Iranian women on a crowded bus in Tehran. Twenty-seven people were killed when ...

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 ...

Toronto braces for possible transit strike
Canoe.ca - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
By IRENE THOMAIDIS, Sun Media TTC riders might want to consider finding alternate ways to get around the city next week, after reports that the transit ...
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New Report Boosts Need for Capital Transit Investment
Illinois PIRG (press release) - Chicago,IL,USA
Chicago—Efforts to promote state capital investment in transit received a boost today as state lawmakers and civic leaders held an event in
Chicago ...
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Countywide transit plan envisioned
The Ann Arbor News - MLive.com - Ann Arbor,MI,USA
BY JOHN MULCAHY Someday soon,
Washtenaw County traffic planners would like to see transit connections between cities and villages, door-to-door service on ...
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Metro counties begin considering sales tax hikes for transit
Worthington Daily Globe - Worthington,MN,USA
AP - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 Three counties in the metro area are about to take up a new sales tax that could provide a steady stream of money for transit ...
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Sound Transit keeps chugging: Ridership, train service grow
TheNewsTribune.com - Tacoma,WA,USA
A ‘reverse-commute’ Sounder train from Seattle to Tacoma marks another milestone in the growth of Sound Transit. For nearly eight years Sounder trains have ...
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CORRECTION FROM SOURCE-Media Advisory: Toronto Transit Workers to ...
Market Wire (press release) - USA
The correct and revised release follows: Amalgamated Transit Workers Local 113 will be making an important announcement concerning current contract ...
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Intercity Transit will add shelters for stops
The Olympian - Olympia,WA,USA
One-quarter of Intercity Transit's bus stops will be under cover by the end of the year. The agency's board has authorized spending $145000 for 51 shelters ...
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Metronauts Transit Camp Site Goes Live
blogTO - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
For those of you who may have missed the buzz last year, Transit Camp is an unconference created here in
Toronto to brainstorm solutions for a better TTC. ...
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Sound Transit board weighs expansion proposals
TheNewsTribune.com - Tacoma,WA,USA
Sound Transit’s governing board will soon decide whether to take a transit expansion plan to voters later this year. Though a final decision might not come ...
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Find compromise on transit-service tax
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
The test is the new regional transit authority created four years ago to provide mass-transit service throughout the metro area. It was a landmark agreement ...
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Countywide transit plan envisioned in Washtenaw
By John Mulcahy | The Ann Arbor News
Idea would need $7 million more in local funding BY JOHN MULCAHY The Ann Arbor News Someday soon, Washtenaw County traffic planners would like to see transit connections between cities and villages, door-to-door service on demand ...
Latest from the Ann Arbor News... - http://blog.mlive.com/annarbornews/

The Morning Report 3/25/08 - Daily Minnesota Political Stories
By Staff
Editorial: Now's not the time to cut transit service, Star Tribune; Editorial: Ethanol industry needs to evolve before it expand, Rochester Post-Bulletin; Editorial: Gender matters in the classroom, Minnesota Daily. Pawlenty: ...
Politics in Minnesota - Minnesota's... - http://www.politicsinminnesota.com

AMERICAS 14000MPH SECRET TRANSIT SYSTEM
Government whistleblowers and retired military personnel have publicly stated that during their employment they observed that our government has a massive network of tunnels, with super velocity trains, linking secret underground bases. ...
0DayNews.org - Breaking News Headlines - http://0daynews.org/

Tax-i
By Jimbo(Jimbo)
While the Los Alamos County Council may try to spin it as part of the County's efforts to be "green" and a "good neighbor," tonight's introduction of ordinances to increase to the County gross-receipts-tax rate for regional mass transit ...
The Bomb Town News Observer - http://btno.blogspot.com/

Breaking News: Navy Contract Ship Fires Warning Shots Near Suez Canal
By Larry(Larry)
WASHINGTON, March 25, 2008 - A ship on short-term charter to the US Navy's Military Sealift Command fired warning shots at a small boat approaching the ship as it was preparing to transit the Suez Canal last night, military officials ...
Milcom Monitoring Post - http://mt-milcom.blogspot.com/

Report Released After Assault on School Bus
WLNS - Lansing,MI,USA
The report details what procedures school officials are putting into place to make sure that all serious school incidents are reported and logged. ...
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It's war on the streets
Glasgow Evening Times - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
Bus company First Glasgow said its security team was working with police and local schools. A spokeswoman said: "We take all incidents of vandalism to our ...
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Tension, absurdity on the picket line
Contra Costa Times - Walnut Creek,CA,USA
"We use it to say our chants to the scabs on the bus," she said. It was not the first replacement nurse bus incident at Sutter Delta. ...
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Gang fights erupting
Morgan Hill Times - Morgan Hill,CA,USA
"There have been no arrest from these incidents because the victims are other gang members and are not cooperative with police," he said. ...
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No-go zone
Macarthur Chronicle - Campbelltown,New South Wales,Australia
In the latest in a string of public disorder incidents in Rosemeadow, bus windows were smashed in
Malcolm Way and Copperfield Drive on Tuesday at 4.15pm and ...
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Crane half full despite escort
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
London Marquez, 17, talks about coming back to school after a series of incidents including a shooting before Spring Break. That wasn't the case Monday, ...
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Four killed in various incidents
The News - International - Pakistan
The police said that the incident was reported near No. 7 Bus Stop when the armed robbers on resistance shot and killed Khan and fled. ...
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Wolf-Proof Bus Stop Shelters Go Up In New Mexico Community
By Mike D.
In May of 2007 two
Catron county Reserve School district school children were followed home from the bus stop by what appeared to be a Mexican wolf although later two sets of wolf tracks were found in the immediate area of the incident. ...
Wildlife and People - http://westinstenv.org/wildpeop

Shame to Sen Ronda Storms And Rep. Ellyn Bogdanoff
By Ron Mills(Ron Mills)
The many incidents seem to blur together into one protracted assault. When Billy attaches a bully's name to one beating, his mother corrects him. "That was Benny, sweetie," she says. "That was in the eighth grade." ...
Broward's Blog - http://browardsblog.blogspot.com/

myspace blog
By Sugar spell it out.(Tegan and Sara)
this was a difficult tour for us. two bus "incidents" (one of course was a proper bus crash-our first in 10 years of touring) and weather/travel issues, some downright shit club shows and a lot of behind the scenes drama. ...
Tegan and Sara - http://community.livejournal.com/tegan_n_sara/

Award-winning Tejano singer in critical condition after bus crash
Houston Chronicle - United States
Navaira, 45, known to his fans simply as Emilio, was removed from the bus that wrecked before dawn Sunday and had emergency surgery to remove a blood clot ...
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FirstGroup and Stagecoach rev up for the $1 US inter-city bus ticket
Guardian - UK
If it's a low-cost bus on a highway near
New York, it's probably Scottish. Two of Britain's biggest transport companies will go head-to-head this week in a ...
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Bus rolls into ditch on QEW, 13 tourists injured
National Post - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
A group of Mexican tourists suffered only cuts and bruises when their coach bus crashed into a ditch on the
Queen Elizabeth Way in Burlington yesterday and ...
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Road blockade after bus crushes boy
The Statesman - Kolkata,India
KOLKATA, March 24: Trouble broke out near SSKM Hospital this afternoon after a 17-year-old boy was crushed to death by a private bus on Harish Mukherjee ...
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The boy's back on the bus
Boston Globe - United States
The bus tour kicks off in
Western Pennsylvania, home to Pittsburgh, and concludes in the southeast part of the state, where Philadelphia is located. ...
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Hyundai, Caparo ink bus-making deal
Times of India - India
CHENNAI: Lord Swraj Paul-promoted Caparo India, on Monday said that it has entered into a technical agreement with Hyundai Motor Corporation of Korea for ...
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Tejano Singer Navaira Hurt in Bus Crash
The Associated Press -
HOUSTON (AP) — Grammy-winning Tejano singer Emilio Navaira may not survive a severe brain injury suffered when his tour bus slammed into traffic barrels on ...
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CTA to expand bus tracking system
Chicago Tribune - United States
By Jon Hilkevitch | Tribune transportation writer 7:55 AM CDT, March 24, 2008 The CTA on Monday will announce the first expansion of its Bus Tracker system, ...
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Uganda: Bus Owners Abandon Passengers
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
ABOUT 70 passengers heading to Arua, Kitgum and Nimule were on Friday stranded for hours after a White Eagles bus abandoned them in
Kampala. ...
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MTA Postpones Subway and Bus Service Upgrades
New York Times - United States
By William Neuman Subway and bus riders are about to feel the impact of the slowing real estate market and Wall Street turbulence. ...
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VW08 Bus Service Between Javits and New Yorker
By Virtual Worlds Management
We are providing bus service from the Official Hotel, New Yorker Hotel (34th and
8th avenue, New York, NY 10001) to the Javits Center (655 West 34th Street) and back in the mornings and in the evenings. Bus will run...
Virtual Worlds News - http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/

Helpful bus stops
For many families without insurance, and for some with insurance, the cost of prescription medications might often mean a choice between groceries and antibiotics, gasoline or insulin. Legislation has come and gone with the intent of ...
The Duncan Banner--Local News - http://www.duncanbanner.com

Montreal Limo Bus
By Ivan
Montreal Limo Bus. Are you looking for a limo party bus in
Montreal? You’ve come to the right place, as we have some sexy party buses ready for you. Jump into the party outfit and get ready for 1st class ride. ...
Montreal Limousine News Articles - http://www.montreallimousine.ca/news-articles

Heidi and Spencer need to get hit by a bus
Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt celebrated Easter by continuing their holiday tradition of posing for “candid” shots that make me want to throw a live wolverine at their heads. What the hell are the point of these pictures? ...
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The Latest On Emilio
By ksatproducer
Police say Emilio was not licensed to drive a bus that big. They took blood to determine if alcohol or drugs were a factor (those results will take weeks), though they say it’s possible he fell asleep. Emilio was not wearing a seat-belt ...
Broken News @ KSAT.com - http://ksatbrokennews.wordpress.com

25 killed in Venezuela road accidents
Hindustan Times - India
The most serious accident occurred in the northwestern region where a bus veered off the highway and caught fire, killing 17 people. ...
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Singer Emilio Navaira Critically Injured in Bus Crash
InjuryBoard.com - Tampa,FL,USA
Navaira and seven other passengers were injured from the accident, and two people were listed in critical condition. Navaira was one of the injured in ...
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Review - Getting Away With Murder
By Leftwing Criminologist(Leftwing Criminologist)
It excludes deaths due to faulty gas supplies, fishing and merchant shipping accidents, and all driving employment fatalities including those involving coach and bus drivers, as well as deaths from long-term disease, asbestos exposure ...
Leftwing Criminologist - http://leftwingcriminologist.blogspot.com/

Lima
By Lunatic Express(Lunatic Express)
As we lurched into
Lima after 28 hours of travel on a single bus from Guayaquil, it hit me that this trip is all about the opposite. It’s not about losing contact with the modern world, it’s about embracing it, reveling in it, ...
The Lunatic Express - http://thelunaticexpress.blogspot.com/

Vehicle Accident Settlement
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Poll: New Yorkers back congestion pricing... if money goes to ...
Staten Island Advance - SILive.com - Staten Island,NY,USA
New York City residents are in favor of the plan, 67-27 percent so long as the money is used for mass transit improvements. With that same caveat, ...
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Rise in fare would help make transit system more cost-effective
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
I support the proposed fare increase on local routes as recommended by the Gwinnett Transit Authority. I especially support the recommendation made by the ...
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Convergence of Transit and Financial Payment Systems Key Theme as ...
Smart Card Alliance (press release) - Princeton Junction,NJ,USA
Chair - Paul Korczak, MTA New York City Transit (re-elected to 2nd term). Vice Chair, Transit - Craig Roberts,
Utah Transit Authority (re-elected to 2nd ...
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County boards take up transit funding
Minnesota Public Radio - Saint Paul,MN,USA
Over the next few weeks, the seven counties in the metropolitan area are expected to take up the issue of transit funding. The transportation bill allows ...
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Heathrows chaotic transit system similar to Bombays, say passengers
Thaindian.com - Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand
London, Mar 24 (ANI): Heathrows transit system is comparable with the chaos encountered at Bombay airport, according to passengers. ...
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Mass Transit Creates Jobs
Groovy Green - Ithaca,NY,USA
Another interesting thing about mass transit is that after we spend all that money we have something that will lost for a long while. ...
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Can gov's capital plan fly?
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
Hamos sponsored the sales tax bill that provided operating funding for area transit. Now the Evanston Democrat is working with a group of state senators and ...
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East Bay: AC Transit delivers on lost purse
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
Lost and Found: Astra Valters takes AC Transit from
San Francisco to her library job in the East Bay, but one day earlier this month, she made a colossal ...
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Adoption of Contactless Payment for Retail and Transit Confirmed ...
MoreRFID (press release) - TX,USA
Growth and excitement continue to surround the contactless financial and transit payment markets, industry leaders confirmed at the Smart Card Alliance's ...
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Breaking the Gridlock on Congestion Pricing
Gotham Gazette - New York,NY,USA
The idea was to charge people to drive into or around the Manhattan business district during the workweek and use that money to fund mass transit ...
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This Week’s Wandering News
By dailytransit
The Guardian’s Vicky Baker is looking to get off the Lonely Planet grid by “Going Local” in
South America, putting couchsurfing and other hospitality sites to the test. Follow her three month journey here. ...
The Daily Transit - http://thedailytransit.wordpress.com

UK: ICO queries Heathrow T5's huge fingerprint scam scan
Instead of, one assumes, continuing their transit unhindered to Schiphol or whatever. It is not immediately obvious why someone who's going to be ID'd as a dangerous terrorist by the Borders & Immigration Agency at the immigration desk ...
PogoWasRIght - Privacy News Headlines - http://www.pogowasright.org

Miami 21: On Hold Again
By Tony Garcia(Gabriel J. Lopez-Bernal)
Miami 21 is in the Herald today with news that is not very uplifting. Commissioner Regalado, a longtime critic of the plan, has decided that the residents of his district do not yet fully understand the code and that he will not let the ...
Transit Miami - http://www.transitmiami.com/

Shiny bits
By Larissa Lai(Larissa Lai)
The big news of the weekend is that I've been selected as a Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies Early Career Scholar. Yeesh, what a mouthful! But the cool thing is getting to work with young profs in other disciplines. ...
Organ Donor's Transit Lounge - http://larissalai.blogspot.com/

Say George? Are you sure
By epzoo
Those of us living in the seven county metropolitan area can be assessed a 0.25 percent sales tax increase for transit projects—no referendum required. Other counties can also increase their sales taxes for specific transportation ...
Eden Prairie News - Comments - http://www.edenprairienews.com

ead toll in Honduras bus accident rises to 26
Reuters - USA
TEGUCIGALPA, March 25 (Reuters) - At least 26 people died in Honduras on Tuesday when a bus ran off a road and plunged over 1600 feet (500 metres) into a ...
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Teen charged over violent bus robbery
NEWS.com.au - Australia
Two boys were travelling on a bus when they approached the female driver as the vehicle stopped in
Greenacre Drive, Parkwood, about 6.30pm (AEST) on Monday, ...
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Brake on bus on rail line 'not faulty'
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
The handbrake of a bus that rolled down an embankment and onto a railway line in Sydney last week was applied incorrectly but did not fail, ...
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Dinosaur fossil found on bus in Peru's mountains
Reuters - USA
AREQUIPA, Peru (Reuters) - Officials found the fossil of a giant dinosaur jawbone while investigating a suspicious package on a bus in the mountains of Peru ...
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Decatur Township school bus crash
Indianapolis Star - United States
Seven kindergarten students were aboard Bus #68 about
9 am when longtime school bus driver Linda Harrington lost control on a curve while heading northbound ...
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Calgary school bus driver charged in accident that killed girl, 9
Edmonton Sun - Alberta, Canada
By The Canadian Press CALGARY — Calgary police have charged a school bus driver in an accident on a city freeway last fall that killed a nine-year-old girl. ...
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Muslim bus driver who wouldn't remove kufi gets his job back
National Post - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
By Ali Zafar, National Post A York Region bus driver has been reinstated after being suspended for refusing to take off his kufi – an Islamic cap – while on ...
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Bus crash star 'may not survive'
BBC News - UK
US folk star Emilio Navaira may not survive the brain injuries he suffered when his tour bus crashed in Texas at the weekend, his surgeon has warned. ...
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Couple 'claim' bus stop boy
The Press Association -
They said Gurrinder, who claims he was left at a bus stop by a white "uncle", was abducted from their home in 2005.
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Thirteen Mexican tourists suffer minor injuries in a bus crash ...
CNN International - USA
BURLINGTON, Ontario (AP) -- Thirteen Mexican tourists suffered minor injuries when their bus crashed into a ditch off a highway near Toronto, Ontario. ...
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Driver charged after Ontario tourist bus crash
By Thomas Steinmetz
Thirteen people were injured Monday after a bus carrying Mexican tourists crashed into a ditch on the
Queen Elizabeth Way in Burlington, Ont. The bus, carrying 48 people, was returning to Toronto after a day trip in Niagara Falls, Ont., ...
eTurboNews - Travel and Tourism... - http://www.eturbonews.com

UNAMID Vehicle and Passenger Bus Collide in South Darfur Civilian ...
By appablog
UNAMID UNAMID Vehicle and Passenger Bus Collide in South Darfur Civilian Fatalities Reported Nyala, S. Darfur, 25 March 2008 - A UNAMID armoured vehicle and a passenger bus collided near Nyala at 0930 hours, today. ...
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Dinosaur fossil found on bus in Peru’s mountains (Reuters)
By Yahoo! News: Science News
Reuters - Officials found the fossil of a giant dinosaur jawbone while investigating a suspicious package on a bus in the mountains of
Peru on Tuesday.
Science - http://science.iblog365.com/

Butler Student Struck By Bus At Fair Grounds
By newsroom
Butler County 911 reports a student struck by a bus earlier this afternoon near the border of
Butler and Connoquenessing Townships. According to emergency radio transmissions, the male student was struck by the bus in front of the ...
The Mercer News - http://www.mygtv.net/

4 hurt when car, Ionia Public Schools bus crash
By The Grand Rapds Press
IONIA COUNTY -- Four teenagers were taken to area hospitals Monday after their car collided with an Ionia Public Schools bus whose driver appears to have caused the crash, police said. The bus driver, a 37-year-old from Lyons, and her. ...
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New brakes for buses - but no investigation
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
"They are so lucky the bus didn't crash when a train was coming through. Wouldn't you want to make sure it didn't happen again?" The incident is destined to ...
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Autistic boy's parents sue bus company
Florida Times-Union - Jacksonville,FL,USA
The suit also notes that First Student failed to have video recordings available of the incidents on cameras installed in the bus. ...
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TfL chief's threat to police over bendy bus 'criticism'
This is London - London,England,UK
... line taken by the back half of the bus at corners. We have seen lots of incidents where people have had feet crushed or legs broken by the rear wheels. ...
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Children seriously injured in road incidents
Radio New Zealand - Wellington,New Zealand
Crash investigations are under way in
Auckland after two children were seriously injured in road incidents on Wednesday. A five-year-old girl is in Auckland ...
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Bus staff want garda unit to halt attacks
Irish Independent - Dublin,Ireland
DUBLIN BUS drivers have made renewed calls for a dedicated garda unit to tackle antisocial behaviour on public transport, writes Fiach Kelly. ...
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Car hits girl; driver drunk, police say
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
The two incidents should send a "strong signal to San Ramon and Danville about the increased amount of traffic that's been brought into the community over ...
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Newsreel -- Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Fulton Valley News (subscription) - NY, USA
Wednesday, April 2 has been designated as Operation Safe Stop Day—a statewide initiative to promote school-bus safety through education, awareness, ...
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Accident: “Bus vs. Car”
By hoboken411
Bus accident underneath the train tracks on the Hoboken/Jersey City border. It sounded like a head-on collision. Interestingly, the driver of the car fled the scene, with an apparent head injury. Police looked up the car by license ...

Fiat to get into the luxury bus market
Economic Times - Gurgaon,Haryana,India
Bangalore: Volvo Buses India have grabbed an additional order to supply 240 city buses to the city’s bus operator Bangalore Metropolitan Transport ...
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911 transcript from Cottonwood bus crash released
Pioneer Press - St. Paul,MN,USA
The Lyon County sheriff's office released transcripts today of the 911 calls from the Cottonwood bus crash Feb. 19 that killed four students and injured 15 ...
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Tejano star has more brain surgery
Houston Chronicle - United States
Navaira was thrown through the windshield when the tour bus he was driving crashed on a
Houston freeway as he and his band were returning home to San ...
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Bus Tours Show Properties in Foreclosure
The Associated Press -
(AP) — The white bus rumbles into the quiet suburban neighborhood, heading toward a foreclosed home that sits empty. Neighbors, young and old, ...
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Bus operator offering new Phila.-to-New York service
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
A Chicago-based bus operator plans to offer service from
Philadelphia to New York, starting May 30. Megabus offers discounted travel, including promotional ...
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Calgary school prepared to forgive school bus driver charged in ...
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
CALGARY - Leaders of the Christian school attended by a nine-year-old girl killed in a bus crash last fall say they intend to forgive and move on in the ...
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Dozens injured in deadly SD bus-car crash
USA Today - USA
At least one person died today when a commercial bus and passenger vehicle collided near
Madison, SD, according to reports. The Argus Leader, a fellow ...
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Runaway bus driver did not put brake on
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
THE driver of a bus that crashed onto the rail line at Epping last week failed to engage the brake properly, State Transit has said after reviewing CCTV ...
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Paisley seeks Irish converts with "gospel bus"
Reuters - USA
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ian Paisley has hinted how he plans to fill his time after retiring as Northern Ireland's first minister -- by taking a "gospel bus" ...
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Emilio Navaira's Brother Recalls Crash
The Associated Press -
Raul Navaira climbed aboard the tour bus that Emilio routinely drove and went to sleep for the 200-mile trip home to
San Antonio. ...
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Postcards from the Pug Bus - Eliot Spitzer’s Wife Had Him by the Balls
Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer is said to be responding well to the genital reconstructive surgery he underwent recently.
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Ontario school bus fleet will convert to biofuel
By Chris
Toronto, Ontario – Student Transportation of Canada (STC) has announced the expansion of its biodiesel fuel program to more than 235 of its 1000 yellow school buses operating throughout
Ontario. “At STC, we all share a common concern ...
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Bus tours show off foreclosed homes
By News Reporter
The white bus rumbles into a quiet suburban neighborhood, heading toward a home that sits empty. Welcome to the Foreclosure Bus Tour, an expedition to educate potential buyers. More...
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New York Bus Stop: In Case of Sith, Break Glass and Use Lightsaber
By Kiltak
That’s just too bad, they may come in handy in case of an eventual full-scale Sith invasion. Kudos to the folks at SpikeTV for this brilliant marketing idea. For those of you who live in
New York, this bus-shelter ad is located on the ...
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Over 60? Get your free bus pass NoW!
By webmaster@fylde.gov.uk(webmaster@fylde.gov.uk)
Free bus travel is already available within Fylde Borough’s boundaries to people aged 60 and over as well as to eligible disabled people.
Fylde Borough Council News - http://www.fylde.gov.uk/news.aspx

A Trip to Remember!!
By Radhika(Radhika)
The
Delhi adventure had begun. At AIIMS the OPD was in progress and so we had to wait. In the meantime we decided to take lunch…finding a place wasn’t very easy. We got into a Blueline bus and soon realized that one of our classmates ...
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The BRT corridor of death, confusion and traffic jams
By The Happy One(The Happy One)
Why were these corridors created in the first place. These corridors were proposed uring the time when blueline buses were on a rampage on
delhi roads, but is this a solution?? Still the same drivers will be driving these buses. ...
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Allegheny Conference hosting transit planning meeting
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
The Allegheny Conference on Community Development will play host to a meeting Thursday to help businesses prepare for changes in transit service. ...
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A Survey of the Cleanest, and Dirtiest, Subway Trains in New York City
New York Times - United States
A transit worker mopping a car on the L line, which was rated the cleanest in the city subway system in a survey by the Straphangers Campaign. ...
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TTC strike could strand York Region Transit riders
680 News - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Thousands of people transfer from transit services across the GTA onto the TTC. The TTC operates 14 routes in York Region for York Region Transit -- that's ...
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Report highlights transit impacts
Chi-Town Daily News - Chicago,IL,USA
BY JESSICA PUPOVAC State representatives and civic leaders yesterday pushed for increased transit funding in the wake of a new report that says public ...
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Transit tax proves to be big windfall for state
Honolulu Advertiser - Honolulu,HI,USA
The excess transit tax collections should go back to taxpayers, Slom said. Mayor Mufi Hannemann said the excess should go to the city and county. ...
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NY traffic, transit alert seen as boon to commuters
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
New York officials are preparing to launch a traffic and transit alert system for the region's commuters. TransAlert will send e-mail messages about traffic ...
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Free transit ride for seniors doesn't apply to everyone
Belleville News Democrat - IL, USA
In St. Clair County, only seniors who live in townships within the transit district can ride free. In
Madison County, all Illinois seniors ride free. Gov. ...
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A Survey of the Cleanest, and Dirtiest, Subway Trains in New York City
New York Times - United States
It concluded that the fruits of a New York City Transit program to assign additional cleaners to the L and the No. 7 lines from September through January ...
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New transit visa requirements from Friday
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
From Friday transit visas will be required for all travel via
New Zealand except for people from countries exempted under immigration policy. ...
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Anoka, Ramsey Counties Approve Sales Tax Increase for Transit
FOX 9 News - Minneapolis,MN,USA
ANOKA COUNTY – The Anoka County Board of Commissioners voted Tuesday to approve a quarter-cent sales tax increase to improve transit and the formulation of ...
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AAA In The News - MPR Coverage Of The Anoka Transit Tax Vote
By Andy
As noted, Bob Collins of MPR was at the
Anoka County Government Center today. Here’s his story which includes yours truly. The selling of a tax increase I was quoted in it and there is also a link to an audio interview with me here. ...
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The Morning Report 3/26/08 - Daily Minnesota Political Stories
By Staff
House Republican Caucus: Moderates need not apply #18, MN Publius; Transit funding: A few questions for Minnesota 2020, True North; Gov. wants to balance budget by pricing college - and the American Dream - out of reach, MN Publius. ...
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All hail the space-age taxi
By admin
Ford, the leading provider of taxis in
America, is using the Transit Connect to offer a fresh take on cabs in the Big Apple. The Connect Taxi Concept employs technology that could revolutionise the industry. ...
New York Taxi News - http://newyorktaxinews.the-cabby.com

RATP: Paris mass transit plans to be oil-free by 2025
By Xavier Navarro
RATP, the company that manages mass transit in one of Europe’s biggest cities, Paris, announced that it plans to become an oil-free company by 2025. According to the group’s Energy policy announcement, RATP will reduce pollution by five ...
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American Airlines US International Getaway 80325
By admin
Starting in mid-September 2007, “additional cleaners were deployed at both terminals for these lines, working in multiple shifts to provide 24-hour coverage,” according to MTA New York City Transit. Beginning on
December 10, 2007, ...
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