Wednesday, March 12, 2008

3/11/08

3/11/08

raffic, Transit Advisories
Washington Post - United States
Here are some issues you may have to deal with on the roads and rails during the rest of this week. On Wednesday, from
7 am to 2 pm, ramp 43A southbound to ...
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Blue Ribbon Panel Cedes Leadership to Transit Not Traffic Coalition
Beyond Chron - San Francisco,CA,USA
This is a disappointing outcome for transit riders and activists. The panel did examine a number of options, but was cautious about endorsing the kind of ...
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NYC Transit Extends Grace Period For MetroCards
NY1 - NY,USA
After saying that it would only promise to honor cards swiped before March 11th, New York City Transit is now saying the grace period runs through to the ...
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Shedding light on Cape Transit's payroll
Southeast Missourian - Cape Girardeau,MO,USA
At the most recent
Cape Girardeau Transit Authority meeting, board members finalized pay for newly appointed executive director Tom Mogelnicki. ...
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Toronto Gets 11000 New Transit Cameras
Toronto Daily News - Toronto,ON,Canada
The $21 million dollar camera expansion in the transit system is an effort to give the transit authority new abilities to safeguard the transit riders. ...
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London Transit calls funding 'Godsend'
The Western Gazette - Ontario,Canada
The wheels on the bus will keep going ’round and ’round thanks to a chunk of unconditional funding for the London Transit Commission. ...
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TTC has a `million' reasons to reach a deal, workers say
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
Toronto Transit Commission workers fill city council chambers March 10 to hear Bob Kinnear, president of the Amalgamated Transit Workers Union. ...
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Transit system topic of open houses
Rapid City Journal - Rapid City,SD,USA
By Journal staff
Tuesday, March 11, 2008 The public is invited to comment on Rapid City’s transit system during a pair of open houses set for next week, ...
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Transit Community Updates
KGMB9 - Honolulu,HI,USA
Honolulu's mayor took his mass transit mission to West Oahu Monday night, the planned starting point for the light-rail system. About sixty people showed up ...
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Sound Transit ridership rose 12.5% in 2007
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
By LEVI PULKKINEN Seattle-area commuters turned to mass transit in record numbers in 2007, boosting local ridership well above the national average, ...
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Public transit ridership reaches highest level in 50 years
By sgoff
Public transit ridership reaches highest level in 50 years.
Sacramento Business Journal.
Regional Gateway News - http://www.regionalgateway.org/news/wordpress

Public Transit--Poor Stepchild to Highways and Roads
By PMF
See the MaryPIRG report here: www.marypirg.org/news-releases/transit-not-traffic-news2/transit-not-traffic-news/local-leaders-cite-new-report-as-boosting-marc-expansion-red-line The Capital appears to be coming to understand that ...
Free State Politics - Front Page - http://www.freestatepolitics.us

Public Transit...The Poor Stepchild to Highways
By PAUL FOER(PAUL FOER)
www.marypirg.org/news-releases/transit-not-traffic-news2/transit-not-traffic-news/local-leaders-cite-new-report-as-boosting-marc-expansion-red-line The Capital appears to be coming to understand that transit is indeed vastly underfunded ...
Annapolis Capital Punishment - http://annapoliscapitalpunishment.blogspot.com/

Mass transit ridership
By thoughtfulconservative
From the Regional news in Saturday’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,. Although Milwaukee County Transit System ridership fell 9% last year, three suburban transit systems posted gains, as did Amtrak’s Milwaukee-to-Chicago Hiawatha line, ...
Musings of a Thoughtful Conservative - http://thoughtfulconservative.wordpress.com

Gamer’s Corner: Live Mass Transit Dreams with Bus Driver
By Seyth Miersma
Bus Driver-1. Bus Driver-3. Bus Driver-6. + Meridian 4. If you’ve got an idea for Question of the Day, a funny photo for Caption It, or just want to share a news tip, let us know at windingroadtips@gmail.com.
Winding Road - http://news.windingroad.com

Bus line to offer Boston to NYC for a buck
Boston Herald - United States
By Frank Quaratiello Bus fare from
Boston to New York City could cost as little as a dollar next month as a new service called BoltBus gets rolling. ...
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Jack London Square collision delays Amtrak service
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
Such incidents are common on the Embarcadero, which serves as both street and railroad as it passes
Jack London Square. The fastest speed trains can travel ...
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Commuters take to Sprinter
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
Many of the Breeze bus system's existing routes were changed, either in terms of the path they follow through the community or in the frequency of service ...
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Global Incident Map
By ken
What’s interesting to note is that while the whole world is indeed affected by acts of terrorism which get displayed on the map (there was even a recent incident in Prince George, BC, in which a drunken man hijacked a bus with five ...
Ubi re vera - http://www.ubirevera.com

arine Dies After Alabama Bus Crash
The Associated Press -
(AP) — A Marine who was among more than 20 people injured when a bus overturned at an Army base died Monday, shortly after a reckless driving charge was ...
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Bus crash blocks westbound lanes blocked on Bay Bridge
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
The bus involved was reportedly from San Francisco Municipal Railway. An ambulance and highway patrol were arriving to the scene at about
4:45 pm, ...
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‘Egypt’s dumping duty on truck, bus tyres to have little impact’
Hindu Business Line - Chennai,India
The incidence of anti-dumping is likely to be at nearly 40-45 per cent of the existing landing price of Indian truck-bus tyres.
India also sources cross-ply ...
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Megaworld to link projects via bus system
Inquirer.net - Philippines
CityLink will provide the public initially with five "class A" buses, and will add five more within the year, providing bus routes that transport workers ...
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Ala. Bus Wreck Injures 3 Marines
The Associated Press -
(AP) — A charter bus carrying members of a Marine Reserve anti-terrorism group overturned at an Army base, injuring 23 people. ...
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New bus passengers passed by
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
On the first day that motorists grappled with the long-awaited constriction of Epping Road to one general traffic lane and one dedicated bus lane, ...
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New: School bus in hit-and-run
Northwest Herald - Crystal Lake,IL,USA
By NORTHWEST HERALD CRYSTAL LAKE — A school bus for districts 47 and 155 was rear-ended in a hit-and-run accident Monday. The sole passenger, a 13-year-old ...
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School bus in crash with van
Irish Times - Ireland
A school was at the centre of a bus crash for the second time in a fortnight in
Northern Ireland today. Pupils were on their way to St Ciaran's High School ...
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Road too rough for school bus, Toppenish student stays home
Seattle Times - United States
A disabled Toppenish High School student has missed six weeks of class this year because the school bus can't safely travel the rugged dirt road to the ...
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Here comes the bus
Boston Globe - United States
The market for lower-cost bus travel in the Northeast Corridor has heated up in recent years with the arrival of Fung Wah, Lucky Star, and the newest ...
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The news: Jodha Akbar, Bus Permit etc
By silkboard
In the middle of all the news in papers, here are 2 smallish items that seemed the most significant over last month. One of them said that Supreme Court has prevented UP state government from stopping screening of Jodha-Akbar in that ...
/India/Bangalore/things - http://silkboard.wordpress.com

News: Bucknell Fan Bus Information for Wednesday's Patriot League ...
The Bison Club will be sponsoring a fan bus to Wednesday's Patriot League women's basketball championship game at Holy Cross. The bus will leave from in front of the Kenneth Langone Athletics and Recreation Center (KLARC) at 10 am Cost ...
CSTV - Basketball - http://www.cstv.com

More bus drivers Chinese
By jtsmyth8
Bus operators are turning to
China for drivers as more Singaporeans here shun the job, complaining of irregular hours and low pay. This is the first time SBS Transit and SMRT are looking beyond Singapore and Malaysia in their effort to ...
Singapore News - http://singaporenews.wordpress.com

OVERCLOCKING BASIC TRAINING!
By djdangerous
Other Components: Overclocking usually causes the PCI bus to run out of spec (faster than normal), therefore, you’ll need to buy, beg, or borrow good components that will run OK when overclocked. CD-ROM drives, sound cards, modems, ...
ROAW NEWS - http://roawtech.wordpress.com

Bus accident in Ellington
WTNH - New Haven,CT,USA
Ellington (WTNH) _ At least one child has been injured in a bus crash on Route 83 in Ellington. The accident happened around
12:30 pm near Middle Butcher ...
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Bomb Hits Iraqi Bus; at Least 16 Killed
The Associated Press -
10, when eight soldiers died in two road accidents and two Marines were killed fighting insurgents in Anbar province. The attack in
Baghdad showed the ...
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Medical student is killed by bus
Augusta Chronicle (subscription) - Augusta,GA,USA
The bus was occupied during the accident. Steve Cassell, assistant director of transportation planning, said his department recently installed new crossing ...
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Teacher hurt but bus seatbelts avert tragedy
Scotland Courier - Dundee,Scotland,UK
According to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, minibus drivers are required by law to ensure children under the age of 14 wear seatbelts.
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NEW UPDATE: No major injuries reported in two school bus accidents ...
Blackshear Times - GA, USA
... said 19 children were on board the bus, but no one was said to have been injured. The Georgia State Patrol is in charge of investigating both accidents.
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Wet Weather Leads To Hundreds of Accidents
WOAI - San Antonio,TX,USA
A school bus full of kids from the San Antonio Independent School District found out how the slick roads can quickly lead to a wreck after a driver pulled ...
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Back and Forth, Back and Forth
By puffin1
When year-round daylight time was tried in 1973, one reason it was repealed was because of an increased number of school bus accidents in the morning. Further, a study of traffic accidents throughout
Canada in 1991 and 1992 by Stanley ...
Puffs & Pops - http://puffin1.wordpress.com

MAJOR DISASTER BY MID 2008?: Increase In Motor Vehicle Accidents ...
By Valerie Pippi
She was pleading to have someone be at a bus stop in Ft. Collins, Co. Obviously, she had dialed the wrong number; she was calling “James”. As soon as the message was over, the cell phone heated up quickly and again died on me. ...
Streams of consciousness - http://mayavision2012.wordpress.com

Light sentence received in crosswalk death accident sends ...
By Bernard Law Group
The 29 year old victim was walking to catch a bus in November 2006 when he was hit at the crosswalk at
47th Ave SW in West Seattle. The driver, Schwartz, 37, who lives near the intersection, was talking on his cell phone while driving. ...
Seattle Injury Blog - http://www.seattleinjuryblog.com/

Surviving Argentina - Mendoza, Argentina
On Sunday, we had a bus back at 1:30 pm. We had bought tickets on El RĂ¡pido, only to learn that the day before they'd had two accidents (one involving a train in which 18 people died, the other one forcing all the riders to hitchhike ...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates - http://www.travelpod.com

Rafting Weekend!!!
By admin
We set out from Thamel bright and early on Saturday morning and took a bus down to our starting point - only took three hours so it wasn’t too bad a trip - did see quite a few bus accidents on the way down which is always going to make ...
My Gap Year - http://sophiewilson.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 ...

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