Sunday, April 6, 2008

4/6/08

Transit expansion seeks public input
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
By DAVID PENDERED Armchair planners will get a chance today to put their two cents into the debate over creating additional transit in metro
Atlanta. ...
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New transit company drives the service for valley riders
Abbotsford Times - Abbotsford,BC,Canada
A new transit company will be taking over operations for the
Fraser Valley starting today, but the head of the company isn't anticipating any big changes to ...
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INSIDE Ramps up Commitment to Transit Payment System Market
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
“The APTA conference is the perfect opportunity for us to address transit agencies’ evolving payment system requirements as they adopt new technologies to ...
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Community Transit to add 23 double-decker buses to Snohomish ...
Seattle Times - United States
By Mike Lindblom Community Transit plans to buy 23 double-decker buses to carry growing numbers of riders from
Snohomish County to their jobs in Seattle, ...
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Fed transit study dollars will be restored for Milwaukee
Milwaukee Small Business Times - Milwaukee,WI,USA
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) recently had collected the unused funds for the study and left only $540000 in the account. ...
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New York City Council Approves Manhattan Traffic Fee Plan
Bloomberg - USA
The US Department of Transportation has offered the state $354 million in mass transit aid if the plan is approved by April 7. ``It is now completely clear ...
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Lack of transit officers 'unacceptable'
ABC Online - Australia
New South Wales South Coast MP Shelley Hancock says it is unacceptable that no transit officers were rostered on Illawarra rail services on the weekend when ...
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NATIONALS PARK Team, Transit Officials Pleased With Performance
Washington Post - United States
By Daniel LeDuc and Lena H. Sun Thrilled with the Washington Nationals' dramatic victory in Sunday night's home opener at the District's new ballpark, ...
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Snohomish transit agency to buy 23 double decker buses
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
Community Transit of
Snohomish County plans to buy 23 double decker buses for daily commuter runs to Seattle. The transit agency said the double decker ...
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Russia to offer NATO Afghan transit at summit
Reuters - USA
By Oleg Shchedrov MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin will offer NATO transit rights through Russia for supplies to NATO forces in Afghanistan at a ...
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Mass Transit Faces Mass Headaches
By Zach Patton
Crowdedtrain As this
US News story says, "The good news, ridership is up; the bad news, ridership is up." Mass transit systems all over the country are straining under unprecedented growth in ridership over the past decade. ...
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Planet hunters find ten new worlds
By Paul Sutherland(Paul Sutherland)
News of the impressive tally by the observatories in the
Canary Islands and South Africa will be revealed to astronomers meeting in Belfast today. The sky survey project, called SuperWASP - short for Super Wide Angle Search for Planets ...
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Metro Introducing 24-Hour Rail Service On Weekends Starting in May
By Fred Camino
Also, will connecting transit match the increased hours of the Red Line? Unfortunately, I can’t seem to find any mention of this on Metro’s website, but I guess that’s not big surprise. No matter, it’s nice to see Metro finally growing ...
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Daily News Editorial: Last Chance for New Penn
By keenan
With so many major transit projects begging for funds, now is not the moment to allocate a penny of PA revenue to a new Penn Station. Instead, now is the moment for Paterson and Bloomberg to bring hard-nosed realism into negotiations. ...
New Penn Station - The Municipal... - http://newpennstation.org/site

Tuesday Neighbor News
By Kit Hodge(Kit Hodge)
I was in transit. Back to the usual schedule now. Hi-lar-ious: "Report: Nation's Gentrified Neighborhoods Threatened by Aristocratization" [The Onion] Celebrity drama: Jesse McCartney's neighbors hate his late night parties, ...
Neighbors Project - http://neighborsproject.blogspot.com/

Experts hope there will be fewer accidents in BRT corridor
Delhi Newsline - Delhi,India
New Delhi, April 01 The Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor continues to test patience as experts have now said that its inauguration — slated for the first ...
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Top Local Stories
MyFox Birmingham - Birmingham,AL,USA
A safety audit is underway this week for Adventure Bus Charter and
Tours. That is the bus company involved in last week's field trip accident that injured ...
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UN Seeks to Curb World's Traffic Deaths
U.S. News & World Report - Washington,DC,USA
More than 1 million people are killed worldwide, and more than 50 million are injured in traffic accidents each year. Road deaths are now the number-one ...
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Perilous passage Eugene’s urban core is the city’s worst area for ...
The Register-Guard - Eugene,OR,USA
Jenness had been knocked out of her wheelchair at the downtown
Eugene bus station by a super-sized Yukon Denali SUV. She is a young-looking 57-year-old with ...
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Driver sober when her bus struck walker
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
Leveke-Meyers was put on paid leave after the accident. Bus officials are still determining whether her driving record - nine preventable accidents in seven ...
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Milwaukee Law Firm Launches New Wisconsin Personal Injury Website
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
... many other types of
Wisconsin accidents, including the following: Wisconsin Bus Accidents, Wisconsin Pedestrian Accidents, Wisconsin Bicycle Accidents, ...
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Public Safety: Accidents
Tampabay.com - St. Petersburg,FL,USA
Jackson has been driving a bus for Hillsborough County since 1979 and has no prior accidents, according to school district spokeswoman Linda Cobbe. ...
Crazy - Part 2
By Andrew
The shared experiences including: challenging childhoods, early musical success, near fatal car accidents and voices that cross genres have made Kelli one of Patsy’s biggest fans, as she says,”There was always a sense of safety when I ...
On The Big Black Bus - http://www.kelli.com/blog

Political Correctness, Vulgarity, South Park, etc.
By markii
Your race, gender and nationality are fucking accidents of birth. Being proud of something you got stuck with when mamma squeezed you out is stupid. You have a right to be proud of your own personal accomplishments, and perhaps those of ...
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Tubing - Vang Vieng, Lao Peoples Dem Rep
The swings are brilliant although you have to be careful which ones you go on as during our days tubing we saw at least 3 pretty serious accidents from one particular swing including a broken neck. On day one Dave (see ...
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Council services threatened by free bus travel
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
The scheme will enable 11 million people over 60, and the disabled, to take a bus anywhere in
England after 9.30am on weekdays and all day at weekends and ...
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Diesel price rise to affect bus fares
Dispatch Online - South Africa
THE increase in the price of diesel would significantly add to the cost of commuter bus services, the South African Bus Operators’ Association (Saboa) said ...
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Bus with schoolkids overturns
Times of India - India
KOLKATA: A group of schoolchildren had a narrow escape when the bus they were travelling in overturned on AJC Bose Road near Beckbagan on Tuesday afternoon. ...
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Karnataka bus punctured
Hindu - Chennai,India
The demonstrators punctured the front tyres of the KSRTC bus that came from Kumbakonam and pasted posters carrying slogans that all efforts of the “Kannada ...
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Kids' bus-stop paintings raise awareness of abuse
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - Minneapolis,MN,USA
By KATHRYN NELSON, Star Tribune A handful of young artists sporting coats and winter boots gathered at a Hennepin Avenue bus stop Tuesday to raise awareness ...
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Heroic Teacher Grabs Wheel On Swerving Bus
CBS News - New York,NY,USA
Alabama elementary school math teacher Amy King is being hailed as a hero for grabbing the steering wheel when the school bus driver passed out. ...
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Boy, 6, left alone on school bus for hours
Boston Herald - United States
By AP FOXBORO — A charter school is reviewing its attendance policy after a 6-year-old Foxboro boy was left alone on a school bus for seven hours. ...
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Bus firm fined in public inquiry
BBC News - UK
It follows a public inquiry in November after complaints over First In
Scotland East not running some services, leaving people waiting at bus stops. ...
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Pedestrian in hospital after being struck by school bus
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
A 30-year-old woman is in serious condition but stable condition after she was struck by a school bus at the intersection of
Russell Road and Southvale ...
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Nigeria: 50 Escape As Fire Razes Luxury Bus
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
OVER 50 passengers travelling from
Lagos to the eastern part of the country narrowly escaped death yesterday as the luxury bus they boarded suddenly went up ...
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Aquariums & Buses Like Peas & Carrots
Monterey police are investigating to find out how an empty tourist bus managed to roll away from its parking spot Saturday afternoon and crash into the front wall of the Monterey Bay Aquarium.The 40-foot Coach USA bus rolled downhill on ...
Deep Sea News - http://scienceblogs.com/deepseanews/

State buses to go hi-tech
By praveennair
It will be a great help to people to have a clear picture of the bus they wish to catch and will also help to save their time. Another key factor this new system would have is the information of vehicle breakdown or any untoward ...
News from Kerala - http://news.karmakerala.com

Our Time in Vilanculos, Mozambique - Vilanculos, Mozambique
We'll never forget it. Now, onto the bad news. We had our first shitty day of the trip. In order to get back to South Africa, we had to take a very bumpy 11 hour bus from Vilanculos to Maputo (the capital of Mozambique), then grab a ...
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Five sentences - update
By Ewan
I kept on meeting folk, bumping into people and so on to the point that, rather annoyingly, I had to walk straight past the entrance to the show to hunt for the bus to the Microsoft Mobile party. I’ve got two more days of time to go ...
SMS Text News - http://www.smstextnews.com

News of the Anglican World
By Andrew(Andrew)
BabyBlueOnline tells us that Rowan Williams has bought a new bus:. So did you think all this time that Rowan Williams, still the Archbishop of Canterbury, has been trying to hatch a plan to save the Anglican Communion? ...
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Fluvanna Makes Changes To School Bus Policy
WCAV - Charlottesville,VA,USA
After the two recent school bus incidents in Fluvanna the school district has implemented two new policies. Policies a lot of people in the community seem ...
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Bus smash driver took wrong turn
Wimbledon Guardian - Cheam,England,UK
"We would advise drivers to pay more attention to bridge heights and vehicle heights to avoid incidents like this. It is unsafe, it costs us time and money ...
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Bus driver under fire
York Daily Record - York,PA,USA
Because district policy does not allow personnel issues to be discussed in public, Mary Hyson spoke in generalities when recounting incidents in which a bus ...
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Safety comes first with buses
Lewistown Sentinel - Lewistown,PA,USA
We have good bus drivers.”
Shannon said the incidents of motorists not stopping were dangerous, and the close calls can be avoided if everyone knows some ...
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Make it toll-free, nationwide
The Daily Star - Dhaka,Bangladesh
On receiving the call, BNWLA officials rushed to Gabtoili bus terminal and confronted the man. The case is still being investigated. To report incidents ...
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Sadness and censure as violence blights the Scudetto again
Guardian - UK
Bagnaresi is said to have stepped in front of the bus in a bid to stop it, but Spolti did not see him in time. Alerted to what had happened but fearing ...
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Illegal Passing Kills Children
ReadMedia (Press Release) - Albany,NY,USA
NYAPT reminds the public that in May 2004, 7-year old Mallory Eddy was killed in Munnsville, NY, when a passenger car passed her school bus on the right ...
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Daily Crime Incidents for April 02, 2008.
By spdk(spdk)
AP-02-U-6123 drove his vehicle in a rash and negligent manner and dashed against a KSRTC bus bearing Reg. No. KA-19-F-2524 driven by one Vasudeva Moorthy. As a result both vehicle got damaged. No causalities reported. ...
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Bullies in Schools
By fleurorange
I went to the guidance counselor after a few of the throwing things incidents. I was pretty much told to suck it up… oh, and the famous “kids will be kids.” The whispers and comments and outright taunting in class? ...
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Team High Road bans hair gel
By C.F.A.(C.F.A.)
The ban was instituted after several recent incidents caused minor injuries to team members, and due to growing concerns among team management that artificial hair enhancement was not in line with their team values. ...
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Jay Cutler Throws Teammate Under The Bus
By rock
Denver quarterback Jay Cutler had some interesting things to say about wide receiver Brandon Marshall, who has had a string of off-field incidents that have been anything but positive. According to Fox, Cutler had more than a few things ...
ThreeStrikesBerlin Transit Workers Resume Talks, Threaten Strike Tomorrow
Bloomberg - USA
By Patrick Donahue March 31 (Bloomberg) -- Berlin's public transportation workers resumed pay talks with employers today as their union reiterated its ...
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Smaller Toronto Transit Commission Union Agrees To A 48-Hour ...
AHN - USA
Among the measures being considered by Ontario if the TTC workers would strike are to turn bus or transit lanes into car pool planes and to make 14 ...
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Mass Transit, Road Repair Vie for Federal Dollars
CQPolitics.com - Washington,DC,USA
Nations such as China and India are planning to spend between 8 and 9 percent of their gross domestic product on infrastructure upgrades and mass transit. ...
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AxleTech buys Truck Trailer Transit
Crain's Detroit Business - Detroit,MI,USA
By Jonathan Eppley Troy-based automotive supplier AxleTech International announced Friday the acquisition of Detroit-based brake maker Truck Trailer Transit ...
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Fishing for Transit Funds
Wired Blogs - USA
By Alexander Lew March 31, 2008 | 7:00:00 AMCategories: Mass Transit For many American public transportation, the future looks very grim when it comes to ...
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Major transit changes; Free rides today, Tuesday
Standard Freeholder - Cornwall,Ontario,Canada
Cornwall Transit will embark on a new era of public transportation today with the introduction of an enhanced bus service that includes a return to ...
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Transit unions promise 48 hours strike notice
CBC News - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Toronto transit riders won't have to make alternate travel arrangements ahead of a threatened strike on Tuesday morning. Two separate transit unions, ...
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Public transit for rural PEI would cost $2 million to start ...
Daily Gleaner - Fredericton,New Brunswick,Canada
CHARLOTTETOWN - A consultant's report predicts it would cost $2 million to bring public transit to rural Prince Edward Island, and another $2 million each ...
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Residents can comment on proposed transit sales tax
Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
He represents Woodbury, where city leaders have gone on record supporting more mass transit. Bill Pulkrabek, who represents the Oakdale and Lake Elmo areas, ...
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Collingswood transit plans move forward
Cherry Hill Courier Post - Cherry Hill,NJ,USA
By LAVINIA DeCASTRO • Courier-Post Staff • March 31, 2008 COLLINGSWOOD — Collingswood will be the first town to build a Transit Oriented Development around ...
This Week’s Wandering News
By dailytransit
In a recent letter to The Morning News, Rosecrans Baldwin tells readers that Paris is bummin’ him out…and, you know, trying to kill his wife. South Korea is worried about the price of booze — more specifically, soju. ...
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As Albany waver on MTA money, cuts and hikes simmer on the horizon
By Benjamin Kabak
David Patterson may be slashing $60 million in transit funds originally promised to the MTA by former Gov. Eliot Spitzer. With the MTA already looking at a deficit of $200 million next year, this news bodes ill for New Yorkers. ...
Second Ave. Sagas | Blogging... - http://secondavenuesagas.com

Lagos Dep Gov Impounds 6 Buses, Okada
By Administrator
She said commercial vehicle operators were expected to make use of the service lane on the Ikorodu Expressway with the introduction of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system. During the monitoring exercise, the deputy governor expressed ...
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Streetcar Weekend News Blast Roundup
By Walker
In addition, many of the comments of the folks who voted “no” still support the idea, or would prefer to see other forms of rail transit first. 1000 Friends of Central Ohio announced their support of the plan. ...
The Walker Evans Effect - http://walker.columbusunderground.com/

Canal Barge and 3 employee's convicted of spilling benzene into ...
By Ray(Ray)
Prosecutors also said that the defendants concealed the leak, patched it and passed the barge to the other barge company for transit on the river without letting the company now about the leak...." Entire Article Here.
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The school bus tragedy
Pioneer Press - St. Paul,MN,USA
I watched our local newspaper reporter, herself from
Cottonwood, reporting from the accident scene. I learned how the school bus driver got the children out ...
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Walk This Way
By Miguel F. Aznar(Miguel F. Aznar)
The absence of accidents suggested that Chinese drivers were not getting by on luck alone. I’ve seen p lenty of accidents in
California , where we follow our rules…mostly. The absence of accidents revealed the invisible technology of ...
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Consortium and Super Nice bus driver smoke in the bus during the ...
By cher linn(cher linn)
For risk number 1 and 2, they can happen to bus driver too, when they're searching for lighter or equivalent, or when they accidently drop the ciggerates and bend down to pick it up, it can cause road accident, too. ...
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Montreal to Boston bus overturns, sending 8 to hospital with minor ...
The Canadian Press - HIGHGATE, Vt.
HIGHGATE,
Vt. ― Eight people are recovering from minor injuries after a tour bus travelling from Montreal to Boston crashed on an interstate in Vermont. ...
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Man dies after bus collision
The Press Association -
A pedestrian died after a collision with a double-decker bus, police have said. The 33-year-old Asian man, who has not been named, died after the collision ...
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End of line for Six Rupee Bus?
Daily Times - Lahore,Pakistan
By Rana Kashif LAHORE: The Defence Housing Authority Shuttle Service (DHASS), known among commuters as the Six Rupee Bus due its low fare, may not remain ...
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1bn bus pass scheme 'stalling'
The Press Association -
Ten years after committing to integrated bus ticketing, the Government has "achieved too little of practical value", the report said.
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Bus campaign contributions: The connections
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
Here is a little update from the bus tax campaign post from a little earlier today. Interviews and a better examination of the somewhat abbreviated campaign ...
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Bus overturns near Korangi river
Daily Times - Lahore,Pakistan
KARACHI: Two people were killed and eight were injured Sunday night when a speeding truck hit a passenger bus in Korangi. The bus No. ...
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US tour bus overturns, 19 Korean passengers injured
Xinhua - China
WASHINGTON, March 31 (Xinhua) -- A tour bus crashed on a highway in the US state of Vermont on Monday morning, leaving at least 19 Korean passengers injured ...
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Greyhound announces discount NY-to-Phila. bus service
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
Just days after a competitor launched discount Philadelphia-to-New York bus service, Greyhound said Monday that it will offer low-cost bus service between ...
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Child, Teacher Still In Hospital After Friday's Charter Bus Crash
NBC13.com - Birmingham,AL,USA
By NBC 13 Staff Doctors at Children's Hospital say a child injured in Friday's charter bus crash on I-59 is now in fair condition. ...
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Tears and Talk of War's Cost as McCain Bus Rolls Through Mississippi
Washington Post - United States
John McCain needed another reminder of the tragedy of the
Iraq war he supports, he got it as he rode in his Straight Talk bus here. For almost 20 minutes, ...
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Now THIS is pressing news...
By Jay(Jay)
The New York Times reports here about an ongoing legal battle involving a machine that critics say could: "...produce, among other horrors, a tiny black hole, which, they say, could eat the Earth. Or it could spit out something called a ...
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Bay bus diversion continues
By brianmmwdorcas
citytv News has confirmed that the intersection will remain closed at least until this afternoon. The TTC is diverting buses on the 6 Bay route. Southbound buses operate on their regular routecitytv News has confirmed that the ...
Brianmmwdorcas's Weblog - http://brianmmwdorcas.wordpress.com

The Great Depression
By admin
No walk-mans, no bus, no police to stop someone from taking advantage of your plight. But by golly, they stopped that nasty Global Trade! . . . . Now let’s look at the “Great Depression of 2008″. There up front is our walk-man guy… and ...
- http://www.therudenews.com

Engineering Education "Today in History" Apple Computer formed.
By Alice Agogino
He had to sell his Volkswagen bus to help keep the company afloat. Steve Wozniak designed the Apple II personal computer that was released on
April 16, 1977, featuring a central processing unit (CPU), keyboard, floppy disk drive, ...
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THE FINTAG NEWSLETTER @ 01 April 2008
By Finbar Taggit
The rest of the news makes you want to jump in front of a bus. But as the successful know, there is always opportunity in the failure of others. [Editor: What did I say about those pills?]. Anyway, today we are going to ease you into ...
FiNTAG - Daily Hedge Fund News,... - http://fintag.com

Atlantans voice opinions on area's regional transit plan
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
Westry was among about 50 people who attended a public meeting Tuesday on recommendations of the Transit Planning Board. Planners are seeking comment on ...
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Govt to meet transit cops
Illawara Mercury - Illawarra,Australia
Concerns about the number of transit police patrolling the line, passengers' fears and the possibility of setting up a transit officer base in
Wollongong ...
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County votes on transit tax will produce new generation of mobility
MinnPost.com - Minneapolis,MN,USA
"Today is a very big day," Peter McLaughlin said after guiding the Hennepin County Board's approval of a new transit tax that promises, essentially, ...
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TEMECULA: Transit company looks to move more tourists
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
By NICOLE SACK - Staff Writer | Wednesday, April 2, 2008 1:39 AM PDT ∞ Kenneth Larkin, president of Transit Van Shuttle will begin offering regular shuttle ...
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County raises sales tax for transit
Stillwater Gazette - Stillwater,MN,USA
Opponents argued that the deal makes little sense for Washington County, which they said doesn't have the population density to make mass transit feasible ...
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Estonia sees transit future despite Russia oil cuts
Guardian - UK
"The negative is that the transit sector is slowing down, this certainly will impact economic growth," Parts told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday, ...
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Young workers in Halifax region are "greenest" commuters: new ...
The Canadian Press - OTTAWA
Workers under the age of 25 in the Halifax region use public transit 19.9 per cent of the time, while a further 19.9 per cent walk and 1.3 per cent use a ...
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County will increase sales tax for transit, board decides
South Washington County Bulletin - Cottage Grove,MN,USA
Washington County will join a metropolitan-wide transit joint powers board, after a 3-2 vote taken after five hours of public comment and board debate ...
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Former head of transit worker's group arrested
MiamiHerald.com - Miami,FL,USA
A golf junkie with bad credit is accused of plundering more than $100000 from a group of Miami-Dade Transit workers. BY LARRY LEBOWITZ The longtime ...
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It’s Up to You, Mr. Silver
New York Times - United States
The revenues ― which are projected to be nearly $500 million annually ― would go toward improving mass transit. While Gov. David Paterson and Senate ...
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Big Win for Transit at the County Level!
By Katie
Big news for transit at the county level! Yesterday, three more counties voted in favor of supporting a quarter cent sales tax to implement new transitways. Hennepin, Dakota, and Washington now join
Anoka and Ramsey counties in voting ...
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Recongestion Tax
By Neighborhood Retail Alliance(Neighborhood Retail Alliance)
What is the News saying? Wisdom at the city council? Stop the presses! Seriously, this is the paper that hands out knucklehead awards to council members. As for the "biggest boost" for mass transit, the News should show more
Missouri ...
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Occupational Health News Roundup
By Liz Borkowski
To prohibit the import or export of any asbestos or asbestos containing product provided that the importation is purely for transit through the country. Any person transporting asbestos or asbestos containing material through the ...
The Pump Handle - http://thepumphandle.wordpress.com

Anti-immigration party seeks rights for ‘native Italians’
By Gilles Castonguay
Italy is not only a major transit point for thousands arriving by boat from around the world, but also a place offering hope of a better life for eastern Europeans including Albanians and Romanians. The most vivid images are usually ...
Global News Blog - http://blogs.reuters.com/global

Ten New Extrasolar Planets Located
By Mike Monahan
This is also known as the “transit method”. The ten recent planets discovered with SuperWASP are about 160 to 2650 times bigger than Earth. Also, keep in mind next year the Kepler mission will launch using the same method. ...
Science News - http://science-news.org

Who should be held responsible for school bus accidents
Times of India - India
The DPS bus accident that killed one child and critically injured several others, might come as a shocker, but it's a common sight to see school bus and ...
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School bus driver or speed fiends?
Times of India - India
AHMEDABAD: The DPS bus accident that killed one child and critically injured several others might come as a shocker to many parents but the common refrain ...
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Muni Bus Strikes Pedestrian. Again.
SFist - San Francisco,CA,USA
Also, the unidentified driver of the bus was given a drug-and-alcohol test, routine after these kind of accidents, according to Muni spokesman Judson True. ...
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Two hurt in freak accident
Gulf Times - Doha,Qatar
The biggest accident in the area was in November 2006, when six Asian labourers of a construction firm were killed as the bus carrying them collided with a ...
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Better, safe... IIT designs state-of-the-art prototype bus
Lucknow Newsline - Lucknow,India
On the issue of safety, he said around 30 per cent road accidents occur due to driver’s drowsiness, therefore, the anti-drowsing safety device would keep ...
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Mom hit by school bus in critical condition
Ventura County Star - Camarillo,CA,USA
By Adam Foxman (Contact) The California Highway Patrol on Tuesday released details about a school bus accident that injured a pedestrian and her 2-year-old ...
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Parents demand 'safer' bus service
Sussex Express - Lewes,England,UK
Mrs Muxworthy said: 'How they can draw this conclusion on such a dangerous route with numerous accidents and even a road death in recent years is beyond me. ...
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Report on Raynham accident expected today
Enterprise News - Brockton,MA,USA
The girl had left a school bus that had stopped at Britton and Anawan streets and she had walked a short distance along
Britton Street before attempting to ...
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Botswana: Fewer Accidents This Easter
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
One more incident involving an over-speeding bus was recorded, bringing the figure to 34 cases for this year. Though last year there was not truck charged ...
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Cambodian tourist bus crash kills 11, injures another 11
Earthtimes - London,UK
"Eleven tourists died instantly and only three people in the accident escaped injury," he said. "The tourist bus driver was killed and the driver of the ...
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Carretera Transoceanica
By Lunatic Express(Lunatic Express)
From Cusco, Peru, my plan had always been to travel by bus to
La Paz, Bolivia, there to ride the world’s most dangerous road and then a train to the Brazilian border known as the Train of Death. Both sounded pretty tempting. ...
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today I was scheduled to stay late at work so I had the morning ...
By gwadzilla(gwadzilla)
there are countless near accidents as cars ignore the left turn arrows and go straight these drivers certainly making these same moves each day one day they will be shocked and wonder why they caused an accident ...
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Chinatown 1
By Mark
Perhaps the fact that thousands of people die each year in traffic accidents. Or that the cost of petrol is marginally higher than taking the bus. Perhaps they just feel that driving hundreds of kilometres on a bike is uncomfortable. ...
Mark and the Giant Durian - http://durianraksasa.wordpress.com

School Bus v. Car Accident
Central Illinois Proud - Bloomington,IL,USA
WMBD/WYZZ -
PEORIA - Two children are back in class after they were hurt in a school bus accident Wednesday morning. The Peoria Police Department says the ...
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Juve Bus Killed Bagnaresi
Goal.com - Switzerland
The bus struck the 27-year-old at around 12:30 PM at the Crocetta North service station outside Turin, just hours before the match between Juventus and ...
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Residents face delay in receiving new style bus passes
Eastbourne Today - Eastbourne,England,UK
Seaford residents face a delay in receiving their 'new style' national pass for this year's bus concessionary scheme. It was hoped that the passes, ...
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One killed, 13 injured in school bus mishap
Hindu - Chennai,India
Ahmedabad (PTI): A 12-year-old boy was killed and 13 were injured in an accident on wednesday when a school bus overturned after colliding with a truck near ...
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Free bus travel for the over-60s
Times Online - UK
At Leeds bus station, we are yelled at by a man with a megaphone who insists that we stay behind automatic doors. Above each one a scary sign says “DANGER ...
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Pensioners left without free bus travel pass
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
By David Millward, Transport Editor Hundreds of thousands of pensioners have been left waiting for passes giving them the right to free bus travel anywhere ...
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Bus-stop horror
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
... control of her 2007 Toyota Corolla in the Lincoln Fields Shopping Centre parking lot and smashed into an OC-Transpo bus shelter on Wednesday morning. ...
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Teen discovers he was shot while on CTA bus
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
A 17-year-old discovered he was shot while on a reported CTA bus Monday night on the South Side, police said. The teen was walking to a bus stop near South ...
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Why bus fares need to fall for all
Guardian - UK
The best thing about the free bus pass for over 60s is that it could create a brand new lobby group for buses. Let's hope the greys get organised, ...
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All aboard: Foreclosure bus tours in the Inland Empire
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
News item: Foreclosure bus tours, already a media favorite in other parts of the country, are coming to the
Inland Empire. ...
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News | Sasha & Digweed’s Tour Bus
By terry.church@beatport.com(terry.church@beatport.com)
Parked on the street near The Estate club in Boston is the 48ft tour bus that will be our home for the next three weeks. Prevost is the company that Sasha & Digweed are renting the tour bus from, and this is the bus' maiden voyage ...
Beatportal.com - Main Feed - http://www.beatportal.com

Bus Service Changes in East Oxfordshire
By nicnewman
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South Oxfordshire from 26th March 2006 affecting routes X4/N4, 31/X31/N31, 32 and 34. Route X4 As part of a package of bus service changes Stagecoach in Oxfordshire is saying a fond farewell to its X4 service between Abingdon and [. ...
Oxfordprospect.co.uk - Oxford News - http://oxfordprospect.wordpress.com

Christian News - Thousands 'Rally for Sally' -- Bus Loads Show ...
Contact: Natalie Bell, Concerned Women for America, 202-488-7000, ext. 126 WASHINGTON, April 2 /Christian Newswire/ -- Upwards of 2000 people gathered today for the rally at the Oklahoma State Capitol in support of Rep. ...
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Life is still a beach
By sidin
So there I am sitting in the bus when wave after wave of mongol cellphone networks attack me with welcome messages. Each time my phone emits a pleasant delivery tone: “Ramba Ho Ho Ho Ho” from Armaan. In mild panic, I switched my phone ...
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See England free
By dom(dom)
Two women in their 60s are to embark on a 700-mile journey across
England using free bus passes to get them around. Manju Ghosh, 60, from Bolton, Greater Manchester, and her friend, 66-year-old Christine Jackson, from Sheffield, ...


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