Thursday, June 19, 2008

6-19-08

Biker run over by Blueline
Times of India - India
NEW
DELHI: The killer Blueline claimed yet another life when a bus rammed into a motorcyclist at Yamuna Vihar signal in Gokulpuri on Thursday evening. ...
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m bak..
By Knatchbulley Hughzscene(Knatchbulley Hughzscene)
It has become sort of an obsession now. i've gotta know how much the govt spent on what? how many people shop in malls and regular grocery stores? how many people travel by metro, dtc bus, blueline bus and autos on a daily ...
Confusion Confounded - http://ssnab.blogspot.com/

Back from Bhangarh
By Prashant(Prashant)
We took a shaky old blue line bus which took us to lwar, Rajasthan in 5 hours. The tickets were very cheap. 97 Rs to be precise. From Alwar we had to take a jeep to some other place.. the name of which I don't remember. ...
Unravel the enigma... - http://prashant1988.blogspot.com/

State targets school bus pollution
Boston Globe - United States
"MassCleanDiesel will make that ride to school healthier for children on the bus and for those communities along the way," he said. ...
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Three injured as school bus, SEPTA bus collide
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
At least two people were hurt when a SEPTA bus traveling on Rising Sun Avenue in Northeast Philadelphia struck the driver's side of a school bus at the busy ...
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serial rapist strikes again
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
The attack has prompted police to renew their warning for teenage girls in western Sydney to avoid isolated bus stops or travelling alone, especially to and ...
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Armed men snatch 34 Cuban migrants from custody of Mexican ...
International Herald Tribune - France
AP MEXICO CITY: Armed men hijacked a bus carrying 34 detained Cuban migrants in southern
Mexico after forcing immigration agents away at gunpoint, ...
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• OCTA to offer free bus passes
Daily Pilot - Costa Mesa,CA,USA
The bus passes are part of what transportation authority officials are dubbing “Dump the Pump” week. Officials encourage the public to jump on the bus, ...
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Norfolk looks at bus fees
Attleboro Sun Chronicle - Attleboro,MA,USA
BY JENNIFER HOWARD FOR THE SUN CHRONICLE NORFOLK - While local school committee members are reluctant to alter the busing system, bus fees remain on the ...
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Orange Line bus route announced
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
The commuter bus will travel on the agency's existing right-of-way, lining the east side of Canoga Avenue from the Canoga Park station to the Metrolink ...
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21 Percent Of Riders Use Bus To Get To Work
Tampa Tribune - Tampa,FL,USA
By MICHAEL D. BATES BROOKSVILLE - A much-anticipated ridership survey for THE Bus released Thursday shows more people are using Hernando County's mass ...
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Bus ridership in Gilbert sees sharp rise
East Valley Tribune - Mesa,AZ,USA
Gilbert officials are projecting bus ridership on the town's routes will be up 74 percent from fiscal 2008 over fiscal 2007, boosted by the addition of a ...
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Daley: Have bikes share bus lanes
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter Bicycles should be allowed to share bus lanes on
Chicago’s widest streets to minimize sometimes-deadly traffic conflicts ...
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Mini school bus involved in accident on Rt. 18 in East Brunswick
EAST BRUNSWICK Police are on the scene of an accident involving a mini school bus and at least one other vehicle at the intersection of Route 18 and Tices Lane at about 12:50 pm.
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Girl hurt as turkey flies into bus
NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE–A girl was injured Thursday when a wild turkey flew into the side of a school bus full of Toronto students on their way to a performance at the Shaw Festival.
The Spectator News - http://www.thespec.com

Bus crashes into tree
By Press-Register
A Wave Transit bus crashed into a tree on
Dauphin Street today about 12:15 pm The bus was headed westbound when the wreck occurred near Ann Street in Midtown. The bus has significant front-end damage, and paramedics are on the...
Breaking News from the Press-Register... - http://blog.al.com/live/

Driver run over by Port Authority bus; three passengers hurt
PITTSBURGH - A Port Authority of Allegheny County bus driver is being treated after being run over by his own bus while trying to fix a wheelchair lift.
Pennsylvania News Headlines from... - http://www.phillyburbs.com/

A fare solution: Bus riding
Faced with skyrocketing gas prices, more North Coast commuters climb aboard public transit. CityBus ridership rose steadily from January through April, up from last year's numbers.
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Power outage, fire snarls Washington DC rush hour
Reuters - USA
... power outage and subway fire left
Washington dark and snarled traffic during the morning rush hour on Friday, power and transit officials said. ...
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Talks resume in Philadelphia transit police contract dispute
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader - Wilkes Barre,PA,USA
SEPTA and the Fraternal Order of Transit Police have resumed contract talks and Philadelphia transit police remain on the job, although there's still no ...
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SEPTA transit officers talks to resume this morning
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
By Robert Moran SEPTA and the transit police union are expected to resume talks this morning to avoid a threatened strike by officers. ...
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Can Mass Transit Rescue America?
ABC News - USA
But there is no such mass transit option for many people. Such systems only make sense in dense urban areas and, even then, they are often heavily ...
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Transit worker stole $375000
Calgary Herald - AB, Canada
A former
Calgary Transit worker has admitted stealing more than $375000 from the city over seven years by palming coins off a conveyor belt, stashing the ...
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Now that's what we call Calgary Transit
Calgary Herald - AB, Canada
They line up at a side window of a retired Calgary Transit bus, place their orders, then loiter in the parking lot waiting for their number to be shouted ...
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Mass transit gets its due in film and TV
Calgary Herald - AB, Canada
Modest, clumsy vehicles of public service, buses don't get no respect from the public at large -- which company made the last bus you rode on? ...
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$267 million boost for Edmonton transit
Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada
EDMONTON -- Edmonton Transit is proposing to spend $267 million on new buses, a garage and other equipment to improve service and boost ridership by almost ...
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Transit tickets the latest victim in counterfeit war
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
While transit tickets – now likely to be phased out by the end of September – may be the most recent targets for counterfeiters, fraud experts say that in ...
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Moving forward on public transit
London Free Press - Canada
We lag Kitchener-Waterloo, to name just one nearby example, in presenting a comprehensive transportation master plan that targets public transit and is ...
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NY MTA's Bleak Financial Picture
By rss@masstransitmag.com (By James T. Madore,...
MTA officials warned yesterday that the operator of the Long Island Rail Road, New York City subways and other mass transit was in danger of "going over the cliff" without an infusion of cash from here and Washington to offset a growing ...
MassTransitMag.com: Top Transit News - http://www.masstransitmag.com

Transit Dreams
Ottawa Mayor Larry O'Brien hosts Eastern Ontario Mayors and Reeves to discuss regional transit possibilities.
A-Channel News Ottawa - http://www.achannel.ca/ottawa/

Transit Authority looks at difficulties gas prices create for city ...
UTICA - The New York Mass Transit Authority held a seminar at Utica's Radisson Hotel Friday, and can you guess the main topic of the day? Yep - gas prices.
WKTV - News - Local - http://www.wktv.com/news/local

Snags for Strait Transit Co-op
Will start service in late July.
1015thehawk.com News - http://www.1015thehawk.com/news

Winnipeg Transit Summer Schedule in effect June 15, 2008
WINNIPEG - June 13, 2008 - Effective Sunday, June 15, 2008, the following transit routes will be operating on a Summer Schedule.
Winnipeg.ca News Releases - http://winnipeg.ca/cao/corporate_communications.stm

AC Transit | News
AC Transit was a sponsor of the project. Children from eight participating elementary schools used AC Transit service to get to and from the event. ...

Violence, thefts could halt western county bus service
Baltimore Sun - United States
Sgt. John Gilmer, a county police spokesman, said officers are going to step up patrols at the bus stops. He stressed that drivers must report incidents ...
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From the Wire
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
Mauricia Grant filed her suit Tuesday, alleging 23 specific incidents of sexual harassment and 34 specific incidents of racial and gender discrimination ...
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NH&MP reunites three children with parents
The News - International - Pakistan
In another incident, the driver of bus No. LGL-9266 told the Motorway Police near Khanqah Dogran that a young girl has boarded in the bus from Pindi ...
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3:29 AM, I-95 N, Automatic Congestion, Congestion, US 70 BUS
Traffic is traveling at 3 MPH at: I-95 N; MM 97; US 70 BUS.
NCDOT Traffic Incidents for the... - http://apps.dot.state.nc.us/tims/

running empty
By bleuemoon
... tonight i walked home in fear in the dark (and from potential crazy people attacking me. no really, there have been incidents reported) from the bus stop; i am angry that i’m afraid of getting physically sick when i self-medicate ...
bleuemoon - http://bleuemoon.wordpress.com

Interesting Incidents during the Sar Pass Trek - Part 3
By Chirag(Chirag)
Just correlate the 3 incidents mentioned above. Get a hint? Hemanth and other folks who told this story got the hint. Incident 7: Atop a bus One of things in Himachal not to be missed is sitting on top a bus. Yes! not inside but on the ...
something about nothing - http://chiragjog.blogspot.com/

membebeL
By Ching-y(Ching-y)
Parents nowadays overly pamper their kids. They just have to send their kids to skol when there are bus services all over. I know that there are many unfortunate incidents like people got kidnapped blablabla. Parents just have to keep ...
Ohm-Hochschule Nurnberg~ - http://meyouanaiesecer.blogspot.com/

al m on More Violence on MAX
~~~>Even jolly old England and the land down under have much worse incidents than anything in the USA. And as far as the USA is concerned, Portland is one of the safest friendliest cities in America. Go ride a bus in San Fran or Chicago ...
Portland Transport Comments - http://portlandtransport.com/

Commuting - Delhi’s Dream Bus
By Mayank Austen Soofi(Mayank Austen Soofi)
If you drive with eyes wide open, you must have noticed that more and more fancy-looking low-floor CNG buses are plying on Delhi’s roads. A few years more and Blueline buses may become history. Perhaps. The
Delhi Walla prepares a wish ...
The Delhi Walla - http://thedelhiwalla.blogspot.com/

15 die as bus plunges into gorge in India
Economic Times - Gurgaon,Haryana,India
Driving accidents are common in
India where bad roads, overloaded ill-maintained vehicles and rash driving often create a deadly combination. ...
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Bus plunge kills 16 in India
Monsters and Critics.com - USA
The state-run bus was on its way to
Rampur town from a nearby village when it fell into a 50-metre gorge, PTI news agency reported. The accident occurred ...
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Thirty-one killed in two Indian accidents
Reuters - USA
In the northern state of Himachal Pradesh, at least 16 people were killed when the bus they were traveling in plunged into a gorge on Sunday, RM Sharma, ...
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Air hostess killed, seven injured in road accidents
The Statesman - Kolkata,India
Meanwhile, four people including two children were injured after a minibus hit a government bus on
CIT Road near Entally this morning, according to police. ...
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Komenda accident: Another victim passes on
Modern Ghana - Ghana
By myjoyonline - myjoyonline.com Another death has been recorded from Thursday’s fatal accident involving an STC bus and a tipper truck at the Komenda ...
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Disaster: Busload of passengers feared dead
Joy Online - Accra,Ghana
Accounts by a police official monitored on Joy FM said the accident occurred at about
3am and while several of the bodies aboard the STC bus with ...
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Ghana: Controversial voters' register, road crashes attract media ...
Afrique en ligne - Angers,France
... the managing director of the Sta te Transport Company, the most reliable passenger bus company, whose bus was inv o lved in one of the accidents, ...
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What Should the Price of Gasoline Be to Cover the Real Costs?
By Werner(Werner)
How much space, agricultural land and cost are taken up to store our cars in garages, park our cars, move the cars around effectively, repair our cars, insure our cars, pay for accidents, pay for police to stop accidents, ...
SHAGYA BLOG - http://shagya-blog.blogspot.com/

ORIGINAL Calif. VW Bus 21 window deluxe -
If you are looking to restore an original 21 window bus that has a solid body and has not been in any accidents, this is the 21 window bus you have been looking for. A good welder/body repair expert can hide any accidents, ...
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Day 5 - Thursday, June 12th
By laserwolf
The most interesting bit of conversation started when we talked about the accident that happened yesterday involving the shattered chemical safety hood. There seemed to be a lot of accidents lately since about two weeks ago there was a ...
MIT Blog! - http://laserwolf.wordpress.com

Truck Driver Gets 7 Years for 7 Child Deaths
By Eddie Farah
This was one of the most horrible truck accidents this area can remember. On
January 25th, 2006, a tractor-trailer driver reportedly fell asleep behind the wheel and drove his trailer into a car full of Lake Butler children waiting in a ...
Jacksonville Personal Injury Lawyer - http://jacksonville.injuryboard.com/

Whoosh =] so long readi nvr update seh .. srY ! K now i updating ...
By Magi Cians(Magi Cians)
Alright gort a fews accidents sia .. Dun wan to elaborate further but G likes to fool around .. TiQ slippers broke cuz G's bike stopped right in front of her and Bam! Lols, tat was exaggerating xD Then we ate at macs and Me and G go ...
MaGi Cians - http://the-get-backer.blogspot.com/

Doubly Blessed
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
Mother and I traveled by Greyhound Bus from
Oregon; my hair, naturally straight, was twisted with rag curls and combed out just before arrival. ...
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Mexico: detained migrants vanish in Chiapas bus attack
World War 4 Report - Brooklyn,NY,USA
Mexican authorities are searching for 37 undocumented migrants from Cuba and Central America taken from a government bus at gunpoint by ski-masked men with ...
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Nepal bus station blast kills two
The Press Association -
A bomb hidden in a bag at a busy bus station in southern
Nepal has exploded, killing two people and wounding 12 others. The station in Chandranigahapur town ...
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16 die in a bus accident in Himachal Pradesh
Economic Times - Gurgaon,Haryana,India
SHIMLA: At least 16 people were killed and six others were injured in a bus accident near
Rampur, around 135 Km away from Shimla on Sunday morning. ...
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The Bus Stops Here
Daytona Beach News-Journal - Daytona Beach,FL,USA
At the height of rush hour and with gasoline prices now above $4 a gallon, you might think the bus would be jammed with other commuters trying to cheat the ...
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Bus System Expansion Planned For Central Areas
Tampa Tribune - Tampa,FL,USA
County officials hope to change that in the next few years by expanding Pasco County Public Transportation - the county-sponsored bus system - into the ...
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Trolley bus debate heats up
Edmonton Sun - Alberta, Canada
Such is the case in the Great Trolley Bus Debate. Last week, I wrote a column criticizing city council for dragging its feet on not killing off our trolley ...
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Bus falls into gorge in Shimla, 16 dead
Times of India - India
SHIMLA: Sixteen people were killed and five others injured when the bus they were travelling in skidded off the road and fell into a 250 metre-deep gorge ...
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Bomb rips through Nepalese bus stop
Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia
AT LEAST two people were killed and more than a dozen others injured after a powerful explosion ripped through a bus stop in
Nepal's restive southern plains ...
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Bus station in Tacoma’s old Elks temple makes sense
TheNewsTribune.com - Tacoma,WA,USA
To get hyped up over the latest idea to restore Tacoma’s old Elks Temple downtown – by converting the ground floor into a grand bus station – we first have ...
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Bus Plunges into Gorge in India, Killing 15
Officials say Sunday the bus traveling in northern state of Himachal Pradesh had at least 21 people on board when accident occurred.
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Blast kills 2, wounds 12 at bus station in Nepal
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- A bomb hidden in a bag at a busy bus station in southern Nepal exploded, killing two people and wounding 12 others, officials said Sunday. The station in Chandranigahapur town was crowded with passengers and other ...
wfpLIVE Breaking News - http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews

MI5 file on 126 bus service from Birmingham to Wolverhampton!
By Roshan Doug
... and there be a brightly coloured file with more or less everything I need to know about our intelligence services priorities. Simple. And who knows, next time it might be on the 126 bus service from
Birmingham to Wolverhampton. ...
Birmingham Post - News Blog - http://blogs.birminghampost.net/news/

Man assaulted at bus stop
Police are hunting for a man who attacked his victim while he stood at a bus stop in Aberdeen.
Teletext Northern Scotland News - http://www.teletext.co.uk/regionalnews/northern-scotland/default.aspx

Violence, thefts could halt western county bus service
String of thefts, fights reported; driver attacked > The operators of a vital bus route through western Anne Arundel County are considering shutting it down after a string of...
Baltimore, MD News RSS Feed - YourStreet - http://www.yourstreet.com/baltimore-md

t last, Perdue gets aboard on transit need
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
By Maria Saporta | Sunday, June 15, 2008, 05:09 PM After six years of inaction on transit, Gov. Sonny Perdue surprised the state when he pledged his full ...
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For mass transit, mass investment
Christian Science Monitor - Boston,MA,USA
But it's also straining providers of mass transit – a signal for needed change. In
Washington DC, the Metro subway and bus system is so stretched at peak ...
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Transit Impersonator Arrested Again after Entering Restricted ...
Enews 2.0 - London,England,UK
The man was wearing navy blue clothes similar to a transit uniform, gloves bearing the NYC Transit logo, a hardhat and a knapsack and documents related to ...
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Transit facility with Bangladesh should improve: Aiyar
Hindu - Chennai,India
Guwahati (PTI): Union Panchayati Raj Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar, on Sunday stressed the need for improving transit facilities with neighbouring Bangladesh ...
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Miami Dade Commission Could Increase Transit Fares
CBS 4 - Miami,FL,USA
MIAMI DADE (CBS4) ― Miami Dade's financial troubled transit system will be the subject of debate when commissioners meet this week to discuss their options. ...
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A Transit Worker Impersonator Arrested Today By New York Police
eFluxMedia - USA
In a statement issued by the
New York Transit Authority, its officials thanked the authorities for their prompt intervention, saying that: "It is not ...
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Transit real key to saving fuel
Baltimore Sun - United States
While The Sun's suggestion that we reduce the maximum speed limit certainly makes sense ("Economize at 65," editorial, June 10), there are more powerful ...
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Regional tax needed to fix mass transit
Indianapolis Star - United States
The business community's behind an even-more-fundamental mass-transit change: remaking IndyGo. "We face funding issues, but it's something we have to fix," ...
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With $4 gasoline, commuters seek savings on public transit
Milford Daily News - MA, USA
By Aaron Wasserman, Daily News staff Record fuel prices have become a double-edged sword for public transit systems, here and nationally, ...
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Transit Police in Philadelphia End a Brief Strike
New York Times - United States
By AP PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Striking transit police officers returned to work Saturday morning, ending a brief walkout that was prompted mainly by a salary ...
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NJ Transit train kills woman who wandered onto tracks
A New Jersey Transit train struck and killed a woman who had wondered onto the tracks in Monmouth County early this morning, said Joe Dee, an NJ Transit spokesman. Train No....
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MAX assault fuels worries of transit safety
What can We do?? asks the liberal politicians and the feeders at the public trough. Here are some suggestions, If you pay You ride.If you don’t pay You don’t ride. The Presence of Fare checkers and turn stiles would make this a reality. ...
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Transit Police in Philadelphia End a Brief Strike
By Alian(Alian)
Striking transit police officers returned to work Saturday morning, ending a brief walkout that was prompted mainly by a salary disagreement.
DRT News - http://drt0.blogspot.com/

NJ Transit looks to put parking at site of failed Edison transit ...
By News Feeds
New Jersey Transit is finally moving forward with its plan to build 400 to 600 parking spaces at the train station, after holding off for several years for an ambitious transit village proposal by private ... More...
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ABC News: Mass Transit Demand Rises, Costs Soar
Fuel Prices and Smaller Government Subsidies Are Squeezing Transit Budgets ... send the editors of ABC News a separate email with the information you have. ...

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