Group urges more US, Md. funds for transit
Baltimore Sun - United States
The report by the Maryland Public Interest Research Group Foundation said that the Maryland Transit Administration's commuter MARC trains, light rail system ...
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Transit spares air, saves money
San Francisco Chronicle - CA,
The Bay Area's top seven transit agencies help prevent more than 2 million metric tons of greenhouse gases and save 251 million gallons of oil each year, ...
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Transit plans stall in traffic jam of bureaucracy
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
We have reached the point where few observers seem to take official announcements such as transit funding seriously. Besides, as often as not, ...
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Explosive device at Metrotown disrupts transit
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
BURNABY / Travellers were being rerouted away from Metrotown mall tonight while police detonated a small explosive device found in an isolated area of the ...
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Transit camera zooms in on car thieves
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Transit plan falls flat in Barrhaven
Canada.com -
Three straight days of positive reviews for the city's new transit vision came to thudding stop Thursday night at a fourth and final public consultation ...
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TTC Problems? Talk to the transit therapist
National Post - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Well, I feel like the transit therapist these days after my three part series about the ups and downs of riding the Toronto Transit Commission. ...
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Transit camera zooms in on car thieves
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Transit advocates call for getting projects 'off the drawing board ...
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
Public transit in Maryland saves consumers $93 million in gasoline costs and cuts global warming pollution by 245 tons -- and for those reasons and others ...
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US report: Most Balkan countries remain transit points for drug ...
Southeast European Times - MD,USA
Due to their strategic location, most of the Balkan countries continue to be used as transit points along several drug trafficking routes crossing the ...
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Bangladesh transit route for heroin trafficking
By Bangladesh News
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Tax for transit still up in the air
By sfiecke
By Shannon Fiecke, Correspondent. While you may have to pay an additional quarter-cent sales tax while shopping in much of the metro, due to a new law, there’sa good chance you won’t be paying extra in Scott County. ...
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Tax for transit up in the air
By sfiecke
By Shannon Fiecke, Correspondant. While you may have to pay an additional quarter-cent sales tax while shopping in much of the metro,there’sa good chance you won’t be paying extra in Scott County. read more.
Shakopee Valley News - Newspaper... - http://www.shakopeenews.com
Study finds rush hour eased by Rapid, but more money needed for ...
By The Grand Rapids Press
GRAND RAPIDS -- The daily rush hour around the city would be 20 minutes longer if not for mass transit, according to a report by a group pushing the state and federal government for more public transportation funding....
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Morning Brief, Friday, March 7
By Blake Hounshell
And with Pakistan's reliability in question, NATO is asking Russia to consider allowing goods destined for Afghanistan to transit its territory. 2008 US Elections. Democrats are deeply divided over what to do about
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-95 Auto Accident Involving Car, Bus
InjuryBoard.com -
By Eddie Farah There was no match between a tour bus with 60 people on board and a car. The two tangled on Interstate 95 this afternoon. The bus won. ...
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CNN Student News Transcript: March 7, 2008
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HUNTER: 97 percent of all kids injured in bus accidents are quickly treated and released, and an average of just six children die in school bus accidents ...
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Three killed in city accidents
The Statesman -
He was going to the bus stand to return home after duty hour, police added. In another incident, Supriya Sen (52), an Eastern Railway staff was knocked down ...
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WMATA chief Catoe gets good marks after one year
It has been a turbulent first year for the chief of the nation's second-busiest rail and fifth-busiest bus system. He began the job after several train and bus accidents that resulted in employee and pedestrian deaths. ...
BeyondDC Newsfeed - http://beyonddc.com/newsfeed
Terrifying Pedestrian Safety Ads Running in DC
By Sommer Mathis
A new study shows that on average more than 80 people die and 2000 people are injured a year in pedestrian accidents in the Washington region. In addition to bus and transit shelter posters like the one at the right, which depict ...
DCist - http://dcist.com/
Back to School: Bus Safety Tips
By christopherbray9090
Every year children die or are injured in school bus related accidents. Many die as a result of a collision involving their bus with another vehicle while others are killed or hurt as they fail to clear the area around the bus or are ...
Christopher Bray - http://cyberpulse.net/blogs/christopherbray9090
CNN Student News Transcript: March 7, 2008
By Morrison(Morrison)
OF student TRANSPORTATION: The school autobus compartment and the school autobus building are such as that they protect the children in most any accident that they are going to undergo in a school bus. ...
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Bus drops off four-year-old alone
BBC News -
A bus company has apologised after dropping off a four-year-old boy alone half a mile from his stop in
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Bus, Truck Collide in China, Killing 10
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BEIJING (AP) — Ten people are dead following a collision between a bus and a truck loaded with coal in China's northern Hebei province. ...
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Chinese hijacker sorry for attack
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
The group was on board a tour bus in the city of Xi'an — home of the famous Terracotta Warriors, in central China — when the Chinese man hijacked the ...
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KC's April bus tax vote hurts blacks, the poor
Kansas City Star - MO,
Top supporters of KC's $375 million bus-tax renewal -- including Mayor Mark Funkhouser -- came in Thursday to The Star to make their best case for voter ...
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Boyfriend of bus assault victim denies provoking
Baltimore Sun - United States
By Melissa Harris | Sun reporter March 7, 2008 The boyfriend of a woman beaten aboard a city bus denied yesterday that he ordered her to either spit on or ...
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Two Antioch teens robbed of iPods while at bus stops
San Jose Mercury News - CA,
By Matthias Gafni ANTIOCH -- In unrelated incidents Wednesday, two
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Bus conductor held for 'harassing' Israeli woman
Hindu -
Nagercoil (PTI): A bus conductor who allegedly harassed an Israeli woman during a night trip to Kanyakumari has been arrested by the police here. ...
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Beijing aims to ensure every bus run well during Olympics
Xinhua - China
BEIJING, March 7 (Xinhua) -- Beijing bus company will intensify oversight and maintenance efforts to make sure more than 14000 buses run well during the ...
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Bus brings Fairtrade message to Cardiff
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The open-top campaign bus will offer interactive displays, activities and the opportunity to sample Fairtrade products. Councillor Simon Wakefield said: “We ...
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Witness testifies in bus beating
Baltimore Sun - United States
By Annie Linskey | Sun reporter March 8, 2008 The Hampden resident who came to the aid of a woman beaten aboard a city bus testified yesterday that she saw ...
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On the Bus with Brighton College
By Vanessa G(Vanessa G)
We caught the bus outside the College. Each student was asked to sit apart from the rest... and to be observant, feeling the difference between images and sounds that jumped out at them, as opposed to the things that flashed past and ...
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21st Bus & Outreach Convention
By Matt Ellison & Family(Matt Ellison & Family)
Last evening, we returned from
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Hop on the slush storm party bus!
By Administrator
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No Country for Old Anybody
By Courier News Central Jersey Political Buzz(Courier News Central Jersey Political Buzz)
She said she had been waiting for a bus for quite a while, and needed to get home back to River Road. I told her to get in, and that I would take her there, since I was driving in that direction anyway. ...
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LOSS PREVENTION/RETAIL SECURITY NEWS ROUND-UP www.privateofficer.com
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'My son is afraid to go on the bus'
phillyBurbs.com -
Emery said it was the latest in a series of minor collisions involving this bus, No. 2. However, the district downplayed the incident and denied there was a ...
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Ad Campaign Grabs For Public's Attention
Washington Post -
Five pedestrians were killed in Metrobus accidents last year, and the campaign includes reminders to passengers to be alert when getting off a bus. ...
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Undercover plan to trap bus yobs
The Star - Sheffield,England,UK
... together on such innovative projects as the Trojan bus, then we will lower even further the number of incidents on our buses in the coming months. ...
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Submarine unit smashes into island bus shelter
NW Evening Mail - Barrow-in-Furness,England,UK
No-one was injured but BAE investigations are under way into both incidents, which happened on Tuesday morning when the unit was moved on a special ...
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School bus driver arrested for molesting 3-year-old girl with ...
New York Daily News -
Hernandez had two drunk driving arrests on his record when he was hired, but a Department of Education background check came up clean beacuse the incidents ...
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Stabbed to death at a Roxbury bus stop
By adamg
Miss von Schtoop, who works in the area, reports traffic was an absolute mess and wonders if the two incidents were related: ... Hopefully it's not just random. I walk in that direction to go to work and one time I did see a very angry ...
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Honk Honk goes the bus!
By Pooh!(Rajan)
But like all stories, incidents and memories doing something out of ordinary made the difference. It did make a difference that day. The jam-backed road she usually took at
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Gun Control Claims More Victims
By wordpress
Consider that in all such incidents, the shooters are not so deranged as to attack police stations, shooting ranges, or gun shows. They have enough presence of mind to assail unarmed people in gun-free zones because they will encounter ...
Slade's - http://slades.biz
'Impounded Blueline permits misused'
Times of India - India
Earlier, the court had refused to soften its stand against "killer" Blueline buses saying it would not lower the penalties slapped on owners of buses ...
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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 ...
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Bay Area gets $52 million in transit funds
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
Arnold Schwarzenegger delivered some good news to Bay Area transit riders on Friday, awarding three transit agencies $52 million to help complete ...
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Sick transit: TTC dirty, leaky, decaying
Toronto Star -
Many recall when the stations were spotless and set the standard for North American public transit. People took pride in that reputation. ...
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Ottawa’s mass-transit plan could cost $4 billion and take 23 years ...
Daily Commercial News - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
The city of Ottawa has unveiled its proposal for a revamped and extended mass-transit system that focuses on two light rail lines, buses, and a transit ...
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Governor announces allocation of millions in bond money for ...
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
By Denis Cuff California is awarding $24 million to BART for earthquake retrofits, and $15.6 million to AC Transit for 50 new buses in the first big payout ...
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Schwarzenegger announces funding to stimulate economy
Xinhua - China
The funding goes to 106 transit projects statewide which will create 7200 jobs and more than 256 million dollars in wages and leverage total investment of ...
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Long Beach at the center of transit
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Now, the area is getting a new transit information center in the heart of the city center, according to the Press-Telegram: Bathrooms and mobility were ...
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Transit benefits: new study, new campaign
Seattle Post Intelligencer -
The idea that transit systems, by moving commuters around en masse, reduce fuel consumption and reduce pollution may not surprise anyone. ...
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WSU grad students reject Pullman Transit fee increase
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Governor Schwarzenegger Announces $394 Million for Transit Projects
Imperial Valley News - Holtville,CA,USA
Up and down the state, our transit money will expand rail lines, buy vehicles for persons with disabilities and help systems upgrade to cleaner, ...
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City keeps door open for rapid transit with $2.75 million
Winnipeg Sun - Canada
By SHANNON VANRAES, SUN MEDIA The road to a rapid transit system in Winnipeg might be getting a little smoother. The city’s preliminary 2008 budget includes ...
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Transit spares air, saves money
By sgoff
Transit spares air, saves money. SF Chronicle.
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Proposition 1B benefits Sacramento RT $7 Million Dollars
By Jon Q. RT Driver(Jon Q. RT Driver)
"In addition to giving our economy a shot of adrenaline these projects will help reduce traffic and protect the environment," Schwarzenegger said, in a news release. Regional Transit will benefit from $7 million for a variety of ...
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Karsog farmers unleash brand power; launch Northharvest
By HimVani
“I lost Rs 30000 to middlemen last year as they refused to pay saying that my stock of vegetables went bad in transit,” said Khemraj of the same village. Like him, other farmers too complained of losing about 20 to 30 percent of their ...
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Repair roads, expand transit
By Rizzo(Rizzo)
Once and for all plan at securing a stable funding source for local transit and roadway maintenance. It all starts with a road to ruin.
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Rail Plan Being Sought by Governor Strickland
By Jamie(Jamie)
Incredible news regarding our governor and real, positive change for
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