Wednesday, June 11, 2008

6-11-08

Mass transit demand rises, costs soar
Christian Science Monitor - Boston,MA,USA
Across the US, public-transit officials are scrambling to accommodate a record number of people who are leaving their cars at home and hopping the bus or ...
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High gas prices lead to surge in mass transit
The Associated Press -
And while that's usually good news for transit agencies, some are struggling to accommodate new riders at a time when tight budgets are making local and ...
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KC's transit election could be headed for 2009
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
Frankly, I don't see the mayor and his supporters getting a tri-county transit deal -- complete with finance and governance questions nailed down well ...
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Another Chicago Commuter Train Derails, Injuring 1
FOXNews - USA
CHICAGO — Authorities are trying to figure out what caused a four-car Chicago Transit Authority train to derail overnight, leaving one person with minor ...
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How to prevent people from taking mass transit, Part 1
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
I took the subway to Hollywood & Highland last week and then walked the last half-mile to the Hollywood Bowl for the REM show. ...
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Weekend Barrie Transit crash could result in charges
The Barrie Examiner - Barrie,Ontario,Canada
Witnesses say a Nissan 200 SX and a Barrie Transit bus collided at the intersection at Grove Street around 2:20 pm, shutting down both roads, as well as the ...
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Compromise transit plan would move region forward
Milwaukee Small Business Times - Milwaukee,WI,USA
My transit plan splits $91.5 million in federal transit money designated for Milwaukee, investing about half in Bus Rapid Transit to help the county’s ...
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Americans Park Cars, Look to Public Transit
ABC News - USA
That's nearly 85 million more trips than people took on public transit during the same period in 2007. "Certainly, taking public transit is the quickest way ...
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New Bus Riders Encountering Problems with Public Transit
Newsradio 620 - Milwaukee,WI,USA
But riders are quickly finding out that the Milwaukee area public transit system is not what it once was. The Milwaukee County Transit System has eliminated ...
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Suburban transit users spin wheels
The Gazette (Montreal) - Quebec,Canada
That shopping mall is where the Montreal Transit Corp. has its
West Island terminal. "But the 3:21 didn't show up. That's when my problem started. ...
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Google Blogs Alert for: transit news

More People Using Public Transportation Nationwide
Transit operators expect the increase to be greater in the second quarter as gasoline prices soar. A report set for release today by the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) shows trips on public transit January-March rose ...
digtriad.com National and World... - http://www.digtriad.com

Carbon Footprints By City
By The Huffington Post News Editors(webmaster@huffingtonpost.com)
... carbon footprints of metro area residents are 14 percent smaller than the average American's. As the study shows, this mostly has to do with development patterns. (We've comment on patterns such as density and rail transit before.)
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/raw_feed_index.rdf

We (heart) New York
By Bobby and Tamie(Bobby and Tamie)
By the time we made it back to Penn Square, it was close to noon and we bought our New Jersey Transit tickets to head to New Brunswick, NJ., to interview church planters there that afternoon. (We made sure to make sure we were going the ...
The Ross News.com - http://www.therossnews.com/

The Latest Victim Of Our Crappy Dollar: Would-Be Wii Fit Buyers
By Vasanth Sridharan
... has made about 7 million copies of the game, Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter estimates: 3 million were shipped to
Japan, 2 million were shipped to Europe, 500000 were shipped to the US, and another 1.5 million are in transit. ...
- http://vcsandangels.com/blog

Transportation for sustainable cities
>What is working for Ohio’s transportation system and what needs to be fixed? How can the state promote more biking, walking and transit ridership (along with economic growth)...
- http://www.yourstreet.com/akron-oh

Truck hits Plain Local school bus
Canton Repository (subscription) - Canton,OH,USA
Word of the accident quickly spread, as parents rushed to the scene to claim their loved ones from school officials. Another bus picked up three other ...
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Bus crash kills 22 in northern China
CBC.ca - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Two people were injured and are receiving medical treatment after the accident in
Shanxi province early Tuesday morning. Road accidents are common in China ...
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22 die as bus collides with truck in northern China
Jerusalem Post - Israel
The bus reportedly hit a truck in
Shanxi province. Two people were injured and were receiving medical treatment after the accident. ...
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New Zealand pensioners safe after driving on wrong side of highway
Times Online - UK
A series of tour bus accidents recently has cast a pall over New Zealand's reputation for road safety even though the total has fallen from 729 road deaths ...
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Panish, Shea & Boyle Files Suit in Mojave Desert Bus Disaster Case
Earthtimes (press release) - London,UK
In the last 5 years, at least four other tour bus accidents have occurred in the
California desert, injuring approximately 170 people. ...
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Trapped head 'rare accident'
Auckland stuff.co.nz - Auckland,New Zealand
NZ Bus, which now owns Stagecoach, says rear door accidents do happen but are rare given Auckland buses carry about 140000 passengers each day. ...
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China road collision kills 22
Reuters - USA
Road
accidents claimed 81649 lives nationwide last year in a population of 1.3 billion, 7806 fewer than in 2006. (Reporting by Chris Buckley; ...
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China road collision kills 22
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
Beijing - Twenty-two people died in a traffic collision in northern China on Tuesday when a bus and truck slammed into each other, state media reported. ...
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Google Blogs Alert for: bus accidents

A busload of problems in Niagara Falls
By Caitlin
According to what I know (I’ve been covering the Falls school district for less than a year), the school district hasn’t experienced any sort of accidents or major disasters as it relates to the buses. Certainly, let’s hope it stays ...
Niagara School Days - http://niagaraschooldays.wordpress.com

Births, deaths and accidents!
By Amanda Sutton(Amanda Sutton)
I hopped on a bus to Natandola beach and we stepped off into the village, and were swept into houses for morning tea, a church service, a walk and paddle along the beach before a huge lovo lunch. Then singing, dancing and lots of powder ...
Amanda in Fiji - http://amandainfiji.blogspot.com/

Another SA Roadlink bus crash
Durban: 43 injured as coach crashes on N3; firm dogged by accidents. At least 43 people were injured in the early hours of yesterday morning when yet another SA Roadlink bus overturned on the N3 highway en route to Durban from ...
www.Witness.co.za Feed - http://www.witness.co.za

Tripped Out
By Kimberly
1. I understand that kids are going to kick the bus seat in front of them. But the parents? 2. People that call everyone’s attention to traffic accidents. We all hope no one is dead. Why yell it out loud? ...
Petroville - http://www.petroville.com

Driving here is a dangerous undertaking
By lbasalla
Anyways, I have heard of a number of car accidents and death resulting from them lately. And on the way to Zomba, I witnessed the aftermath of such an accident. A young woman was hit by a bus and was dead in the middle of the road. ...
A Traveler's Tales from Malawi - http://basalla.wordpress.com

Counting Lights
By sohailhashmi
There are around 3000 Blue line buses that ply on the streets of
Delhi, and aside from terrorising the general populace off the streets, sending around 150 citizens of Delhi to meet their respective makers they are also known to ...
Kafila - http://kafila.org

Bus with 41 on board overturns on Ind. interstate
The Associated Press -
CROWN POINT, Ind. (AP) — A Greyhound bus flipped onto its side on a northwestern Indiana interstate, causing only minor injuries for six of the ...
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Inglewood woman injured in desert bus crash sues bus company
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
AP LOS ANGELES—A woman who was injured when a tour bus crashed and killed one person in the
Mojave Desert last month has filed suit against the bus operator ...
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Bus-riding goat gets 1-way trip to shelter
Seattle Times - United States
By AP PORTLAND — Authorities in
Portland are trying to figure out how a goat came to be on the bus. The vehicle was on a layover Monday night in southeast ...
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TTC bus driver charged with impaired driving
National Post - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
By Matthew Coutts, National Post A TTC bus operator was charged with impaired driving yesterday after a passenger on his route became concerned about the ...
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8 killed, 30 injured as bus falls into gorge
Hindu - Chennai,India
Udhagamandalam (PTI): At least eight persons, including a one-year old baby and two women, were killed and more than 30 injured when a state government bus ...
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Novel scheme for bus passengers
BBC News - UK
Bus passengers have been invited to "park-and-read" through an initiative to encourage people to use libraries. Each bus on the
Norwich Airport ...
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Walking School Bus News – Go For Gold!
By rod
The Walking School Bus was washed out this week, but the forecast for next week is looking good and we hope everyone will be extra keen to jump on the bus and make up some valuable minutes in their Premier’s School Sport Challenge quest ...
Orange Grove - http://www.orangegrove.org.au

Goat Reunited With Owner After Boarding Bus - News Story - KPTV ...
Goat Reunited With Owner After Boarding Bus - News Story - KPTV Portland: Classic Portland situation.
Pseudolectual - http://dalasverdugo.com/

Canton students in second school bus crash in five weeks
By Maggi Martin
Canton school children who were involved in a fatal crash just five weeks ago were in a second crash on Tuesday that sent five students to the hospital. The same
Glenwood Middle School bus was driving the same route when...
Cleveland Metro News – The... - http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/

RTA launches own bus service for employees
DUBAI - The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has announced the launch of a bus service for its employees, called Awselni.
Khaleej Times : UAE News - http://www.khaleejtimes.com/

Bus Driver Pulls Out of the Depot
Meridian4 and SCS Software are excited to announce that Bus Driver is now available for sale in retail stores and for digital download.

ity transit committee looks at improving bus routes
Canada.com - Don Mills,Ontario,Canada
OTTAWA - OC Transpo's plan to improve performance on some inner-city bus routes goes before elected officials on city council's transit committee Wednesday ...
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Iran to mediate on gas transit fee
Business Standard - Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
PTI / Islamabad June 04, 2008, 13:09 IST Iran will mediate between India and Pakistan to end a deadlock on the issue of transit fees to be paid by New Delhi ...
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SUFFOLK COUNTY: Levy seeks more funding for buses
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
BY STEVE RITEA | steve.ritea@newsday.com Claiming Suffolk has not received its fair share of funding for public transit, Executive Steve Levy is asking the ...
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Keeler: Levy's on right track to improve transit
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
In his quest to get the state to give Suffolk more mass-transit funds, County Executive Steve Levy is stuck in a chicken-and-egg dilemma: He needs more ...
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Public transit the best bet
The Gazette (Montreal) - Quebec,Canada
Public transit is the best way to get to Circuit Gilles Villeneuve for the Grand Prix of Canada. Spectators are not permitted to drive their cars to the ...
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Transit safety first
Ottawa Citizen - Ontario, Canada
Although a report of an attack on a woman near the Bayview Transitway and O-Train station turned out to be a hoax, city transit planners should pay ...
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Gaylord Resort Asks for More Transit Service
Washington Post - United States
Hubbard said the county's five-year transit plan calls for an additional Metro route to
National Harbor and two county bus routes in the Oxon Hill area. ...
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New steering committee finds problems with regional transit concept
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
By JEFFREY SPIVAK The path to a regional light-rail and transit election is getting longer and perhaps bumpier by the week. ...
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Transit Funding On Hold Until Suit Is Settled
Washington Post - United States
By Anita Kumar RICHMOND, June 3 -- Gov. Timothy M. Kaine's staff has postponed borrowing millions of dollars for statewide road and transportation projects ...
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Another CTA derailment raises concerns about system's safety
Chicago Tribune - United States
By DON BABWIN | AP Writer CHICAGO - A Chicago Transit Authority train derailed as it rumbled along early Tuesday. Like the train that derailed less than a ...
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Washington County, Waukesha See Most Growth in Passenger Numbers ...
By rss@masstransitmag.com (Erin Richards and...
With the price of filling up the gas tank for a daily commute looking decidedly unappealing these days, commuter bus ridership between
Milwaukee and outlying counties has surged by double-digit percentages on some routes.
MassTransitMag.com: Top Transit News - http://www.masstransitmag.com

Three Creeks planning council to examine Highway 99, transit
Vancouver, WA - Clark County’s Three Creeks Advisory Council will meet June 12 from 10 am to noon. The meeting will be open to the public, at the of.... More.
Clark County News - http://www.clark.wa.gov/news/news.asp

No more free public transit on smoggy days in Bay Area
By Oedipus
It takes 2 hours and 33 minutes to take public transportation from Los Gatos to Morgan Hill, where I live and work, respectively. 2 hours and 33 minutes. To public transportation I say: FU. Fire up my V12 Mercedes that gets 9mpg, ...
MercuryNews.com Forums - Comments... - http://forums.mercurynews.com/taxonomy/term/673/0

Good news for transit & Cedar Shoals Rd
By brent(brent)
Some good news for a change... The commission voted last night to slightly increase the property tax. Some of the revenue generated will be used to increase transit service to the eastside and
Atlanta Hwy ($190K). ...
BikeAthens Blog - http://bikeathens.blogspot.com/

Americans park cars to ride public transit
By Caveman
... light rail and bus travel soars in face of high gas prices. Will public transit be able to keep up? If you've recently decided to start commuting to work on public transportation, instead of driving, you've probably already noticed...
Cave News - http://caveviews.blogs.com/cave_news/

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