3-6-08

School bus seat belt push
WCBD-TV - Mt. Pleasant,SC,USA
97 percent of all kids injured in bus accidents are quickly treated and released. An average of just six children die in school bus accidents each year. ...
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Mpumalanga bus victims identified
SABC News - Johannesburg,South Africa
Ten of the 12 people who were killed yesterday in a bus accident near Nelspruit have already been identified by their families. ...
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Stop sign could reduce risk of bus accidents
Montreal Gazette - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
I nearly got picked off twice at that corner by a bus while walking west on the north side of the street. I had ventured on to the street while the bus was ...
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Harrisonburg Bus Accident Follow Up
WHSV - Harrisonburg,VA,USA
"In a recent study I found at one of the transit systems said that the drivers that had the most accidents from drivers that had been there four to six ...
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Bus safety concern
7DAYS - Dubai,United Arab Emirates
... for the accidents. “Schools must appoint well trained drivers and should see that someone escorts the schoolchildren when they get off the bus. ...
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Probe launched into accident that killed 11
SABC News - Johannesburg,South Africa
The accident happened this morning when the bus traveling on the R40 road between White River and Nelspruit overturned after the driver lost control. ...
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Road accidents
GreaterKashmir.com (press release) - Srinagar,Jammu and Kashmir,India
I was waiting for bus near Moulana Rumi Gate. A girl opposite to me was about to cross the road, suddenly a White Santro Car zooming past at a break neck ...
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Mumbai's killer streets refuse to let up
NDTV.com - New Delhi,India
It seems road accidents are becoming the new reality of India's commercial capital Mumbai, despite awareness campaigns by the traffic police. ...
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11 killed in Mpumalanga accident
SABC News - Johannesburg,South Africa
The Mpumalanga Roads and Transport Department says it will launch an investigation into the cause of the bus accident which took place in Nelspruit this ...
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Nigeria: Road accident kills 14
Afrik.com - Paris,France
The accident happened when the driver of the bus, which was travelling from Osogbo (South-west) to the commercial city of Lagos, slept off behind the wheel. ...
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Bus Crash Cartoon is Racist?
By Joel Gaines
26 suggested some connection between the tragic Cottonwood bus accident and the fact that the person apparently at fault is an illegal immigrant. By precisely the same logic, we might suggest that, since the driver is female, ...
No Pundit Intended - http://www.nopunditintended.com

The Old Man Prayed for Planes, Trains.......
By Victor Kaonga(Victor Kaonga)
The many plane crashes, train derails, bus accidents, etc only confirm that anything made by man and woman can fail. Even with all good intentions and the best mechanism, the engineers cannot rule out human error in operating such ...
NDAGHA - http://ndagha.blogspot.com/

Springtime 17
By Andrew Wood(Andrew Wood)
Highway 17 is notorious for the number of accidents it attracts, mostly due to lunatic drivers who overestimate their skills. One decent crash and this road backs up for miles with rubberneckers sniffing for blood. ...
Woodland Shoppers Paradise - http://woodlandshoppersparadise.blogspot.com/

Daily Crime Incidents for March 06, 2008.
By spdk(spdk)
A case of Fatal Road accident has been registered in Bantwal Rural Police Station. On 05/03/2008 at 1315 hrs at Maripalla Pudu village Bantwal Taluk one Prasanna NR driver of KSRTC bus bearing Reg. No. KA-19-F-2057 drove his vehicle in ...
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Alderman Stone strikes again
By Jennifer(Jennifer)
But they don't, and as a result "tragic" "accidents" happen that claim lives. In our messy real world where politicians are consistently reelected despite being more crooked than a suburban cul de sac, the problem lies in the ...
General Carlessness - http://jmd1125.blogspot.com/

Georgia: School Bus Accident Injures 11 - New York Times
A school bus carrying 27 students overturned, and 11 students were taken to hospitals for treatment, the authorities said. None of the students were in ...

Sound Transit punches second tunnel under Seattle's Beacon Hill
Seattle Times - United States
A boring machine has punched another tunnel through Seattle's Beacon Hill for the Sound Transit light rail line between the city and Sea-Tac Airport. ...
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Building transit is like building a cathedral
Ottawa Citizen - Ontario, Canada
Although the world may not need any more cathedrals, it can use more durable solutions on a whole range of issues, including transit. ...
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LA Mass Transit: Get It Running
City Watch - Los Angeles,CA,USA
By Charles Tarlow What will it take to build mass transit in LA now? The short answer is: money! The long answer is that we need to decide which mass ...
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Chicago Taxes Jump $530 Million to Pay for Mass Transit
The Heartland Institute - Chicago,IL,USA
A year after Illinois lawmakers began discussing a plan to bail out the Chicago region's mass transit system, the final piece of the plan fell into place. ...
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Elliot Lake to receive transit funding from province
Elliot Lake Standard - Elliot Lake,Ontario,Canada
“This demonstrates our government’s ongoing support of our local public transit systems,” says Algoma-Manitoulin MPP Mike Brown. ...
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Sound Transit Heading Toward 2008 Light Rail Measure
TheStranger.com - Seattle,WA,USA
by Erica C. Barnett A majority of the Sound Transit board now appears to be leaning toward a vote on a transit-only ballot measure in 2008. ...
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Transit: Kevin Falcon speaks
By maayan kreitzman(Gerald)
A few months ago, BC Transportation minister Kevin Falcon announced a 14-billion dollar transit bonanza for BC The announcement made from page news in a both national newspapers, and rightly so. It is rarely in Canada that we see such ...
UBC Insiders - http://ubcinsiders.blogspot.com/

Review BRT Project, Motorists Tell Lagos State Govt
By Administrator
Despite the late take-off of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), the project has begun to receive bashes from the motorists and other road users in the state, who urged the state government to plan how to tackle the traffic snarl that the project ...
The PM News - http://thepmnews.com/

Merger of Walla Walla, College Place would face challenges
By Katie Combs
Clark said that Walla Walla and College Place are working together on the Valley Transit Board and various projects, like developing Myra Road and jointly training firefighters. “It’s not as if people aren’t talking or doing things ...
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TSTC Ideas Boosted at State of the MTA
By Veronica Vanterpool
... and affordably bring better transit to the outer boroughs and other places that need it. Progress on this joint effort of NYC Transit and NYC DOT is exciting news for commuters who have been waiting a long time for transit relief. ...
Mobilizing the Region - http://blog.tstc.org

AC Transit | News
In a case study of the city of Oakland, AC Transit's hydrogen fuel cell buses are featured in a Popular Science magazine article as the chief reason why the ...

Blueline claims another life in Delhi, toll 15
Times of India - India
NEW DELHI: A scooterist became the 15th victim of the Blueline menace in the Capital this year when he was hit by a bus at an under-pass in south Delhi, ...
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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/

Blueline bus knocks down man in south Delhi @ NewKerala.Com News ...
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Blueline bus knocks down man in south Delhi - Yahoo! India News
New Delhi, March 5 (IANS) A speeding Blueline bus Wednesday crushed a two-wheeler rider to death in south Delhi, the police said.

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nti-Semitic incidents decline in US for third year
Jerusalem Post - Israel
... yeshiva school bus in Brooklyn on the eve of Yom Kippur, with phrases such as "F*** Jews" and the "second coming of Hitler" on the windows; 20 incidents ...
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Student banned for punching bus driver
Lismore Northern Star - Australia
Insp Scott Bingham, of Casino police, said incidents occurring on school buses and needing police involvement were 'extremely rare'. ...
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Saginaw bus stop incidents prompt concern
The Saginaw News - MLive.com - Saginaw,MI,USA
A couple of suspicious incidents have Saginaw police, parents and school officials keeping a closer watch on kids. Monday, a man in a gray four-door car ...
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Bus boss criticises 'mindless' vandals
East Anglian Daily Times - Ipswich,England,UK
He said: “School transport is something we are worried about and although strictly we don't have responsibility for it we do take these incidents hugely ...
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Attacks may force Muni to suspend some bus service
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
Ten incidents, including two minor assaults on drivers, have occurred since Jan. 1, said Nathaniel Ford, executive director of the San Francisco Municipal ...
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"Mother Expresses Concern Following School Bus Fight"
WKRN - Nashville,TN,USA
A Nashville mother is keeping her son home from school after he was reportedly attacked by other students on the school bus. The alleged incident happened ...
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Bus passenger hit: witness plea
The Star - Sheffield,England,UK
The incident happened as the number 88 bus travelled along Thorne Road between the King's and Queen's Road junctions at around 8pm on Monday. ...
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Criminal negligence
By wasif
Incidents such as these occur frequently in most major cities and towns across Pakistan . Public transport operators, such as bus drivers recklessly speed along their routes with little regard for the safety of passengers or pedestrians ...
The Dawn Blog - http://blog.dawn.com/

Daily Crime Incidents for March 05, 2008.
By spdk(spdk)
On 04/03/2008 at 1825 hrs near Wenlock hospital at Mangalore one driver of bus bearing Reg. No. KA-19-C-223 drove his vehicle in a rash and negligent manner and dashed against a motorcycle bearing Reg. No. KA-19-V-4924 driven by one ...
spdk - http://spdk.blogspot.com/

Irony at this time of the year: premium bus services and lousy mrt
By admin
These incidents took place on the North-South, East-West and North-East lines from 2005 to 2007. Out of these, 19 lasted for more than 30 minutes. Five of the 19 were caused by train systems fault. ...
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