Saturday, March 1, 2008

3/1/08

50 low-floor buses to hit roads by July
Delhi Newsline - Delhi,India
Blueline bus operators along these routes will be given alternate routes till their permits are valid. DTC chairman Ramesh Negi said, “We have a fleet of ...
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Transit in transition
Canoe.ca - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
By KENNETH JACKSON, SUN MEDIA On the same day the provincial government gave the city more than $27 million in public transit funding, Mayor Larry O'Brien ...
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Transit plan is the best one yet
Ottawa Citizen - Ontario, Canada
The new transit plan the city will officially unveil Monday reflects the balanced, common-sense approach that has been so lacking in the city's previous ...
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Transit talk focuses on Foothill Freeway
Fresno Bee (subscription) - Fresno,CA,USA
By 2110, its advocates say, the Metro Rural Loop would be a system of highways and transit lines linking communities from Chowchilla to
Porterville while ...
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Transit fares still to increase by 25 cents
The Barrie Examiner - Barrie,Ontario,Canada
The Ontario government is granting almost $1.1 million to the city to help improve public transit. In addition to
Barrie, Orillia Transit will receive ...
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Mayor opposes art center, library, museum and transit cuts
Sioux City Journal - Sioux City,IA,USA
That flat tax approach also could cause a 30 cent per passenger fare increase on transit buses and the elimination of a bus route. ...
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Transit ideas pulled from past, future
Marin Independent-Journal - San Rafael,CA,USA
Marin transit officials are looking into the SkyTran system, seen in this illustration, which uses magnetically levitating pods that glide along a monorail. ...
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To the future and back for Marin transit ideas
Marin Independent-Journal - San Rafael,CA,USA
... the Metropolitan Transportation Commission - the Bay Area's transportation planning agency - which funnels federal transit dollars to Bay Area counties. ...
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Province tops up Port transit funding
Welland Tribune - Ontario, Canada
Port Colborne will get another $33931 in funding to carry its transit plans further down the road in 2008. Transit funding in the amount of $138333 was ...
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Regional Transit Plan in Final Stages of Editing
WRAL.com - Raleigh,NC,USA
It's part of the 29-member Special Transit Advisory Commission's multibillion-dollar regional transit plan, unveiled Friday. "The whole process would take ...
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• N. Va. Officials Say Transit Authority Was Flawed
Washington Post - United States
By Sandhya Somashekhar RICHMOND, Feb. 29 -- Northern Virginia officials reacted to the state Supreme Court's decision Friday by condemning lawmakers for ...
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GBTA Seeking New Way to Shelter Riders
By rss@masstransitmag.com (John Burgeson,...
The Greater Bridgeport Transit Authority today opens bids for a design modification that officials hope will provide riders with a drier place to wait. The big question for the transit agency is: Will the original architect bid on the ...
- http://www.masstransitmag.com

Middlesex unveils ideas for future transit village
The public this week got its first peek at plans for a new bus or train station in the borough's Lincoln Boulevard redevelopment area.
Home News Tribune - News - http://www.thnt.com

Sound Transit Citizen Oversight Panel Releases 2007 Year-End Report
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Sound Transit Latest News Releases - http://www.soundtransit.org

New Transit Funding for Ottawa (SEE VIDEO)
The city is getting $27 million to help improve public transit in Ottawa.
- http://www.achannel.ca/ottawa/

CIRTA to hold mass transit forums in Hendricks County
Mass transit experts suggest that it might be time for suburban Central Indiana residents to hop on board. The Central Indiana Regional Transportation Authority plans to hold presentations at 7 pm March 5 at the Avon Town Hall and at 7 ...
Hendricks County Fl
Bluffton bus crash prompts new signs, safety efforts
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
By ARIEL HART The families of those who died in the bus crash one year ago on I-75 and Northside Drive can take comfort in at least one thing. ...
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More police patrol bus, train station after rise in incidents
Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com - Kalamazoo,MI,USA
Stepped-up police presence at the
West Kalamazoo Avenue bus and train station began Monday and will continue for an undisclosed period, Kalamazoo Department ...
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Bluffton bus crash prompts new signs, safety efforts
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
By ARIEL HART The families of those who died in the bus crash one year ago on I-75 and
Northside Drive can take comfort in at least one thing. ...
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Bus Driver Hiring Policy Unchanged
WJLA - Washington,DC,USA
Prince George's County school officials say they don't plan to change their hiring policy for bus drivers following an accident in Riverdale this week. ...
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Teen bus stunt film removed from web
ic Wales - United Kingdom
FOOTAGE of two teenagers clinging to the back of a bus hurtling through the
South Wales Valleys was today removed from the internet. ...
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45 passengers killed on bus plunge horror
Scotsman - United Kingdom
Guatemala: An overcrowded bus plunged off a road and rolled into a gully yesterday, killing 45 people, authorities said. The bus was carrying some 65 ...
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At least 45 dead in Guatemalan bus accident
AFP -
GUATEMALA CITY (AFP) — At least 45 people were killed when a passenger bus heading from Guatemala to El Salvador overturned in nighttime conditions, ...
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Teen 'bus surfers' removed from web
The Press Association -
Two teenage boys were filmed risking their lives by clinging on to the back of a moving bus for three miles. The stunt, known as bus surfing, was filmed by ...
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Teen at Center of School Bus Brawl Goes 'On the Record'
FOXNews - USA
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, HOST: We have news for your tonight about that unbelievable school bus scuffle—the all female school bus brawl caught on tape on ...
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Girl crossing road is hit by bus
BBC News - UK
A 13-year-old girl from
Manchester is being treated for serious head injuries after a being hit by a bus. The teenager, from Baguley, was walking across the ...
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Bus crash kills 57 in Guatemala
CNN International - USA
(CNN) -- A double decker bus careened off a major highway and crashed into a ditch near
Guatemala City Friday night, killing at least 57 people and injuring ...
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At least 45 dead in Guatemalan bus accident
At least 45 people were killed when a passenger bus heading from Guatemala to El Salvador overturned in nighttime conditions, officials and media reports said.
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Clean up toilets at bus station
By Lara Page
The men’s toilets at
Shrewsbury bus station are being used by people to take or deal drugs. The consumption of alcohol is also evident from the empty bottles of sherry and cans I have seen in the cubicles.
Shropshire Star » News: - http://www.shropshirestar.com

Guatemala Bus Plunge Kills 45
Rescue workers look for victim's bodies at the site of a bus crash in Santa Rosa, east of Guatemala City, Friday, Feb. 29, 2008. Forty two people were reported dead and twenty five injured, authorities said.(AP Photo/Jose Luis Pos) ...
- http://news.myspace.com/local

Guatemala Bus Plunge Kills 45
An overcrowded bus plunged off a highway and rolled into a gully on Friday, killing 45 people and injuring 20 more, authorities said.
International News for MyFox Kansas City - http://www.myfoxkc.com/myfox

Leap day wedding comes with extra twist: a bus garage locale
CHARLESTON — The bride and groom stood in front of signs urging school bus safety instead of at a church altar. Many of their guests wore bright yellow work vests instead of dresses or suits.
News from www.jg-tc.com - http://www.jg-tc.com/

Teenage 'bus surfers' removed from web
ic Wales - United Kingdom
A spokeswoman for Veolia Transport Cymru said: “We have had no incidents before on our services, but there are examples around the country, for example in ...
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Politicians to tackle road safety
BBC News - UK
By Jim Fitzpatrick The death of Nicola Murray this week in that terrible Cabragh school bus crash, is one of those tragic incidents that all-too-often ...
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South LA neighborhood on edge after shooting
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
One of the boys pointed out the splatter of dried blood that stained the sidewalk next to the bus stop at Central and Vernon avenues. ...
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Training program helps Diboll ISD meet state standards for bus safety
Lufkin Daily News - Lufkin,TX,USA
With help from a new school bus safety and evacuation training program developed by Texas-based Vertical Alliance Group,
Diboll Independent School District ...

Past on-the-road incidents surround van driver
By Carolyn Hileman - The Voice
19 Lakeview School bus crash was apparently involved in a driving-without-a-license incident in which a man was cited in
Kandiyohi County in January, the West Central Tribune reported Wednesday. The Kandiyohi County incident would be at ...
American Conservative Daily - http://www.americanconservativedaily.com

School to boost security at doors
By Don Grigas, dgrigas@mysuburbanlife.com
“We’ve done a lot over the last 22 months to create a safe environment for students and staff, to make sure we don’t become another number related to school (shooting) incidents,” said Brown. “Since January 2006, there have been 16 ...
Romeoville Reporter Homepage RSS - http://www.mysuburbanlife.

Merced School Bus Accident
ABC30.com - Fresno,CA,USA
Traffic was backed up for miles after a school bus drove off an embankment on southbound Highway 99 near
Franklin Road. The Highway Patrol says the driver ...
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Booze-bus fleet just got bigger
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
"We all pay for road accidents, whether it's through our ACC levies or the personal cost of a family member or friend being hurt or killed," says ACC injury ...
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2 killed, 20 hurt in accidents
GreaterKashmir.com (press release) - Srinagar,Jammu and Kashmir,India
According to local news agency CNS one person was killed and 18 others wounded when a bus (JK02-6379) they were traveling in from Nasbatgarh to Ram Nagar ...
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Overloaded trucks prone to fatal accidents
Times of India - India
A total of 587 Bluelines were prosecuted for allowing footboard travel, dangerous driving, not stopping at designated bus stops and overtaking from the ...
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Graffiti daubed on new bus shelter
Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph - Kettering,England,UK
There have been seven accidents in three years along Bridge Street and lorries have been seen mounting the pavement outside the post office to get past ...
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Bus Accidents and Your Rights
By default@goarticles.com (Jim Jones)
Most people might not think that a bus accident would be any more complicated than a regular automobile accident. However, if there has been an accident on a public bus line, they are more than likel...
GoArticles Category - http://www.goarticles.com

Blueline kills elderly man in south Delhi
By India eNews
An elderly man was Thursday mowed down by a speeding Blueline bus after being hit from behind in south
Delhi, the police said.
India eNews - http://www.indiaenews.com/

Your Gateway to Delhi
By Mayank Austen Soofi(Mayank Austen Soofi)
Sheila Dikshit’s Blueline Blues Here's why Delhi Chief Minister would rather walk than board a city bus; by Mayank Austen Soofi City Chronicle - The Mall-Made Mess The leafy Nelson Mandela Marg is being sacrificed to Shining India; ...
The Delhi Walla - http://thedelhiwalla.blogspot.com/

Blue Sky, Big Bazaar ,aLL stores in india
By O(O)
Rithala Metro Station, Rohini Delhi - 110 085 Phone : 011 - 2757 4182 Blue Sky :: Delhi Address : Crossriver Mall 1st Flr Kakardooma Court Shahadra, Delhi Phone : NA Blue Sky :: Saket Mall :: With Pantaloons ...
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Flaherty's train catches his officials off guard
Globe and Mail - Canada
And they point out it does not appear on Ontario's multibillion-dollar list of priority public-transit projects across the Toronto region that are already ...
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BC Transit has a new boss
Times Colonist - Victoria,British Columbia,Canada
"He will be responsible for transit provincewide," said Ron Drolet, BC Transit spokesman. The Crown corporation deals with transit in 58 communities in the ...
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Transit Experts Credibility Questioned
KGMB9 - Honolulu,HI,USA
The debate over
Oahu's proposed mass transit system is getting personal. Thursday some Honolulu City Council members attacked the credibility of the experts ...
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Mass transit fares rising this weekend
Times Herald-Record - Middletown,NY,USA
By Judy Rife New York — Mass transit fares and bridge and tunnel tolls will rise throughout the metropolitan region this weekend. ...
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Mass transit is still cheaper means to get to city
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
That brings the total cost of a one-way morning commute via mass transit, absent coffee and a doughnut, to $7.64. The same scenario between
Glen Cove and ...
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Students will be allowed to vote for Pullman Transit fee increase
The Daily Evergreen - Pullman,WA,USA
The ASWSU Senate passed a referendum Wednesday night that will allow students to vote for a
Pullman Transit fee increase. The referendum presents a $15 ...
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$50 million in store for city's transit and transportation systems ...
Prince George Citizen - Prince George,British Columbia,Canada
Prince George will cash in on the provincial government's ambitious public transit plan to the tune of $50 million over the next few years, according Prince ...
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Your say: NZ 'a transit lounge'
Stuff.co.nz - New Zealand
Stuff readers share their views on United Future leader Peter Dunne's comments that New Zealand is being used as a giant transit lounge by immigrants who ...
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First Transit Drivers in Atlanta Vote Unanimously to Join the ...
SunHerald.com - Biloxi,MS,USA
By International Brotherhood of Teamsters Nearly 200 First Transit bus operators who provide transportation for university, Coca-Cola and other workers in ...
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Councilmember Cachola Refuses to Answer Questions About Proposed ...
Hawaii Reporter - Kailua,HI,USA
During the question and answer session of the meeting several residents expressed their concerns about the mass transit system. The first question was from ...
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Feds Get on Board for 2 Houston Metro Light Rail Projects
By rss@masstransitmag.com (Rad Sallee and...
The Federal Transit Administration is committed to helping the Metropolitan Transit Authority qualify for funding of two light rail lines by the end of the year, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison said Tuesday.
MassTransitMag.com: Top Transit News - http://www.masstransitmag.com

Transit Authority director says new city money for transit less ...
By Birmingham News staff
The Birmingham-Jefferson County Transit Authority director said he learned this week that the city of Birmingham is providing $9 million a year in new money for transit improvements, not the $17 million he had thought....
Breaking News from The Birmingham... - http://blog.al.com/spotnews/

Miami News & Commentary
By Gabriel J. Lopez-Bernal(Gabriel J. Lopez-Bernal)
Miami-Dade County Commissioners gathered in
Washington DC this week to meet with Federal Transit Administrator James Simpson to discuss the fate of the upcoming N/S and E/W metrorail extensions. The N/S extension was recently downgraded ...
Transit Miami - http://www.transitmiami.com/

Sinn Féin delegation visit Dutch capital to explore rapid transit ...
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney was part of a cross-party delegation of the Assembly's Regional Development Committee that travelled to Holland last week on a study visit exploring public transportation and in particular rapid transit.
Sinn Fein Newsroom - http://www.sinnfein.ie/news/

British Columbia remains optimistic that federal government ...
British Columbia is confident there will be more funding coming from the federal government to support the province’s $14 billion transit plans.
News - Daily Commercial News - http://www.dcnonl.com

Promising leads' seen in bus stop shooting
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Some witnesses told police the gunman had been on a bus and argued with someone after getting off. But others said he was already in the crowd. ...
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Driver released after Tyrone bus crash
RTE.ie - Ireland
Seven other pupils were injured when a truck crashed into the rear of a school bus on the A4 road between Dungannon and Ballygawley. ...
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Heroin Found in Boots of Bus Passenger
The Associated Press -
Customs agents at a
Laredo port of entry found nearly two pounds of heroin hidden in the soles of boots in the luggage of a commercial bus passenger. ...
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Blunkett ends school bus tour
The Press Association -
Former Home Secretary David Blunkett has made his final stop on a fact-finding tour to consider the introduction of a US-style school bus programme in the ...
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Metro approves bus service to National Harbor
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
Metro officials have approved a plan that will add bus service to and from the $2 billion
National Harbor development, which is slated to open in April. ...
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Dan ordered to freeze plans to stop Shabbat bus lines
Jerusalem Post - Israel
COM STAFF The Transportation Ministry on Thursday ordered the Dan bus company to freeze its plan to stop operating nine bus lines on Shabbat afternoons, ...
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Funeral for bus crash victim Nichola
Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom
Nicola, a pupil at St Ciaran's High in Ballygawley, was killed on Wednesday on the notorious A4 when a lorry ploughed into a school bus carrying her and 14 ...
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Police: Gang member arrested in bus stop shooting
CNN - USA
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- A 24-year-old gang member was arrested Thursday in connection with a shooting at a
Los Angeles bus stop in which eight ...
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East Valley briefs
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
GILBERT - The Higley Unified School District bus driver involved in a highly publicized Feb. 15 incident has been reassigned to work in the district bus ...
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Bus crash claims nine lives
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
Blantyre - Nine people, one of them a Tanzanian, were killed and 36 others injured after the bus in which they were travelling overturned in northern Malawi ...
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Best practice for bus drivers
THE chairman of South Somerset District Council, Cllr Ian Martin, has presented drivers from Yeovil-based South West Coaches with certificates after they gained professional qualifications in best practice' for bus driving.
This is The West Country | Somerset News - http://www.thisisthewestcountry.co.uk

One Person Seriously Injured in a Bus Crash
One woman seriously injured in a school bus crash in Stockbridge Thursday afternoon.
WKBW - News - Local & Regional - http://www.wtvh.com/news/local

Woman struck by bus
A woman in Albany is hit by a CDTA bus and is taken to Albany Medical Center with cuts and bruises.
Capital News 9 Top Stories - http://capitalnews9.com

Arrest made in LA street bus stop shootings
A suspect is in custody in Los Angeles, a day after eight people were wounded by gunfire at a bus stop.
KCBY - News - National & World News - http://www.kcby.com/news/national

Angry parents want monitors on buses
The Tennessean - Nashville,TN,USA
Prompted by recent school bus incidents in Metro Nashville, the school district added 10 monitors to its special education buses. At least two parents filed ...
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Third boy accuses bus driver of abuse
Glens Falls Post-Star - Glens Falls,NY,USA
The two incidents are believed to have occurred in the parking lot outside Conrad's
Jefferson Street residence at 10:30 pm on Oct. 7 and inside his ...
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Unit 5 to honor woman killed in bus accident
Bloomington Pantagraph - IL, USA
Pete Weber, general manager of the Bloomington-Normal Public Transit System, said transit system officials do not comment on such incidents and he referred ...
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School bus driver faces two more forcible touching charges
Glens Falls Post-Star - Glens Falls,NY,USA
The two incidents are believed to have occurred in the parking lot outside Conrad’s
Jefferson Street residence at 10:30 pm on Oct 7 and inside his apartment ...
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Seven Russians injured in Thai road accident in hospitals
ITAR-TASS - Moscow,Russia
“Unfortunately, the bus park of
Turkey, Egypt and Thailand is to blame for most incidents with tourists in these resort countries,” he said. ...
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02/28/08, I-95 N, Automatic Congestion, Congestion, US 70 BUS
Traffic is traveling at 30 MPH at: I-95 N; MM 97; US 70 BUS.
NCDOT Traffic Incidents for the... - http://apps.dot.state.nc.us/tims/

DAILY INCIDENTS FOR THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2008
By Media Relations
Victim told officers that the incident took place at a bus stop in the area of
1300 River Street. Officers, accompanied by the victim, returned to the scene of the crime. Once on scene, the victim quickly spotted the suspects who ...
- http://www.bpdnews.com/

Streetcar Answers
By daimajin(daimajin)
EM The two incidents with cars involved illegal traffic movements by the motor vehicles--running a red light, and making a right turn from the left travel lane. They do not seem to result from cars lacking awareness of the streetcars. ...
Seattle Transit Blog - http://seatrans.blogspot.com/

S.C. school-bus incidents | Driving a busload of stress - Topix
S.C. school-bus incidents | Driving a busload of stress. Posted by The State Yesterday | Bookmark and Share. “It takes a lot to drive a bus -- not just the ...

ool Bus Driver Blamed For Accident
WJZ - Baltimore,MD,USA
Police have released new information about the driver of a
Prince George's County School bus that flipped over. The accident happened in Riverdale and sent ...
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Please, let Nicola be the last to die
Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom
Nicola, a pupil at St Ciaran's High in Ballygawley, was killed yesterday on the notorious A4 in Tyrone when a lorry ploughed into the school bus carrying ...
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Blueline kills elderly man in south Delhi
Sify - Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India
New Delhi: An elderly man was on Thursday mowed down by a speeding Blueline bus after being hit from behind in south Delhi, the police said. The accident ...
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Viewpoint: Bus tragedy needs investigation
Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom
The accident requires a full and thorough inquiry, the results of which should be publicly aired. The bus involved was modern, appeared to be in good ...
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Woman dies after being hit by Unit 5 bus
Bloomington Pantagraph - IL, USA
To think of such horror that must have been involved with this horiffic accident. Everyone should be praying for the bus driver and the missery she is in. ...
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major train accidents since 1995
Hindustan Times - India
May 14, 1996: 35 people killed as the bus carrying them collided with the Ernakulam-Kayamkulam train at an unmanned level-crossing near Alappuzha in Kerala. ...
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Speaking of bus accidents...
By Big Daddy(Big Daddy)
While waiting for the bus last night, this bus, the 1, struck this guys SUV. He was pissed. Didn't get to see him get in a kerfuffle with the bus driver because I had to go. And then this is on the news: Two hurt when RTD bus crashes ...
- http://bonjourpeewee.blogspot.com/

Daily Crime Incidents for February 28, 2008
By spdk(spdk)
A case of
Non Fatal Road accident as been registered in Sullia Police Station. On 27/02/2008 at 2215 hrs at Parivarakana Sullia Town one driver of bus bearing Reg. No. KL-15-6534 drove his vehicle in a rash and negligent manner and ...
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Icy conditions blamed for fatal van crash In separate accident ...
Continued snowfall on Tuesday and early Wednesday caused local schools to open two hours late on Wednesday and set the stage for a number of motor vehicle accidents, including a fatal one in North Towanda Township early Wednesday ...
Daily and Sunday ReviewNews:News:Loca... - http://www.thedailyreview.com/site/index.cfm?brd=2276&dept_id=465049

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