Saturday, June 21, 2008

6-21-08

CTA adds 20 routes to Bus Tracker system
Chicago Tribune - United States
CTA bus riders will be able to get real-time travel information for an additional 20 routes next week, agency officials said Monday. ...
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MAN chief executive sees bus operations posting profits again this ...
Forbes - NY,USA
FRANKFURT (Thomson Financial) - MAN AG. chief executive Hakan Samuelsson said he expects the company's bus unit to post profits again this year, ...
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Funding shuffle to limit bus route cuts
The Tennessean - Nashville,TN,USA
By MICHAEL CASS • Staff Writer • June 17, 2008 Some bus routes would keep running and magnet school students would continue to enjoy city bus service under ...
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Bus line offers free rides on 'Dump the Pump Day'
South Coast Today - New Bedford,MA,USA
By KEVIN P. O'CONNOR NEW BEDFORD — There is relief, at least for a day, from the spiking price of gasoline: Bus rides will be free on Thursday. ...
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Crash with Guard bus didn't kill woman
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier - Waterloo,IA,USA
By CHARLOTTE EBY, Courier Des Moines Bureau DES MOINES -- A New London woman involved in an accident with an Iowa National Guard bus Sunday apparently did ...
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Bus bill comes due, so take 'The Ride'
St. Joseph News-Press - St. Joseph,MO,USA
With luck, a St. Joseph Transit bus – “The Ride” – will be there to help many through this life change. Well, before gas prices began flirting with $4 a ...
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GTA to get it's first hybrid bus
News 14 Carolina - Raleigh,NC,USA
Transit officials hope to have the hybrid bus on the streets as early as next summer.
GREENSBORO -- A federal grant is making it possible for the Greensboro ...
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Officers search bus for suspect in Amber Alert case
Bakersfield Now - Bakersfield,CA,USA
Bakersfield Police officers entered a bus at a downtown Bakersfield station with guns drawn Monday afternoon in search of a suspect in an Amber Alert case ...
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Shootings reported near 4 Metro bus stops
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
Police are investigating four drive-by shootings reportedly occurring near Metro bus stops in
Kansas City this morning. Police are looking for three young ...
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CTA testing new hybrid electric-powered bus
Chicago Tribune - United States
By Jon Hilkevitch | Tribune reporter The CTA on Tuesday began testing a lighter-weight hybrid electric-powered bus that may achieve double the fuel ...
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CTA testing new hybrid electric-powered bus
The Chicago Transit Authority is testing out hybrid buses to see if they are worth the money to implement into the system.
Digg / Tech Industry News / upcoming - http://digg.com/tech_news

Landon Brown Throws Whitney Houston Under the Bus (Photos)
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"HEY! THERE GOES MY BUS!!"
By Eric Mansfield(Eric Mansfield)
Driving isn't usually a problem for me, but I was hoping to take the bus today (see post below) as part of the big "Dump The Pump" week-long community project. I haven't take the bus in year. My fondest memories are picking up the.
Have I Got News For You! - http://ericmansfield.blogspot.com/

Four pellet-gun shootings at KC bus stops
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City police believe the same people are behind pellet-gun shootings at four bus stops during the morning rush.
Kansas City, MO News RSS Feed... - http://www.yourstreet.com/kansas-city-mo

Park and ride news sparks bus cut fears
FEARS were rising today that massive cuts could be made to Ipswich Buses services in the wake of the company losing the contract to run the town's Park and Ride operation.
Evening Star 24 - News - http://www.eveningstar.co.uk

A Sensible Alternative to Honolulu's Proposed Rail Mass Transit
Hawaii Reporter - Kailua,HI,USA
By Ben Ramelb, 6/17/2008 12:04:03 PM Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann continues to push fixed rail mass transit for West Oahu to the exclusion of considering ...
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Commuters get a few transit deals Thursday on Dump the Pump Day 3 ...
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
The Dallas Area Rapid Transit isn’t offering free rides. Still, a $3 day pass on DART continues to cost less than a gallon of gas. ...
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GE Transportation awarded $96M contract to upgrade Rotterdam's ...
International Herald Tribune - France
AP ERIE, Pennsylvania: GE Transportation has been awarded a $96 million contract to upgrade the signaling and communications equipment of a public transit ...
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Miami-Dade County commissioners reject transit tax
CBS 4 - Miami,FL,USA
MIAMI (AP)
Miami-Dade County commissioners have rejected a plan to raise the local sales tax to help the area's financially troubled transit system. ...
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Not Just for Tourists; Transit Agencies Eye Double-Decker Buses
Wired News - USA
By Alexander Lew June 17, 2008 | 12:36:14 PMCategories: Mass Transit When the San Francisco Muni was testing double-decker buses on some of the city's ...
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Grand Haven council supports study of transit system linking West ...
MLive.com - MI,USA
GRAND HAVEN -- The Grand Haven City Council is on board with a study of a regional transit system that would link Grand Haven,
Muskegon, Grand Rapids and ...
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Putting the "rapid" in 520 transit
Seattle Times - United States
Sound Transit is asking for input on a potential ballot measure for November of this year to fund major transit improvements all over the three-county ...
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Mass transit will come only if region builds it
Indianapolis Star - United States
The need for a regional tax to help fund a nine-county mass transit system has never been more acute and shows no sign of easing. ...
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Kansas needs public transit
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
Mark Parkinson of
Kansas said regarding the future of public transit: “There hasn’t been the numbers of riders to allocate resources to support it. ...
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Ask Phoebe: Transit signs have no alternative but to confuse
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
And Transit
New Zealand's grammarians do (mostly) understand the difference in meaning. I regularly travel from Wiri Station Rd east across Great South Rd ...
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Honolulu Mayor Expects Jobs With Transit Plan
By rss@masstransitmag.com (Laurie Au, Honolulu Star)
The city hopes to attract more local companies to work on its $4 billion mass-transit system by creating smaller contracts, as opposed to larger, $100 million contracts that are typically awarded only to national and international ...
MassTransitMag.com: Top Transit News - http://www.masstransitmag.com

Transit group promotes walking tours
Citizens for Modern Transit (CMT) will host an open registration for its "Ten Toe Express" from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm Wednesday, June 25, as part of the Clean Air Festival in Memorial Park, 41 S. Central Ave. in downtown Clayton.
News from westcountyjournal.stltoday.com - http://westcountyjournal.stltoday.com/

Students Lead Demands in Transit Campaign
By subasic
... and Camosun College Students’ Society, in partnership with other local organizations, are campaigning for fast, accessible, and affordable public transit to and from UVic and Camosun – and in the Greater Victoria area as a whole.
Student Society News - http://camosunstudent.org/b2evolution/blogs/index.php?blog=2

Denver transit agency seeks private funds to help extend services
Fast rising prices of copper, steel and concrete has ballooned the price of building extensions to Denver's light-rail system by billions, and the Regional Transportation District is now seeking more private-public partnership ...
Headwaters News Content - http://www.headwatersnews.org

Public transit encouraging drivers to "Dump the Pump"
High gas prices have you regretting the day you bought your car? Well, some people want you to know that there's another option.
WHP CBS 21: Local News - http://www.whptv.com/news/local/

Woman sues Hernando schools, says son was attacked on bus
Tampabay.com - St. Petersburg,FL,USA
... documents related to the attack or previous incidents. Burnett is particularly interested in a copy of a videotape from the bus' surveillance camera. ...
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Did you see night-time gang attack on 576 bus?
Halifax Evening Courier - UK
And a 554 bus and an access bus were also attacked in
Pellon Lane, Pellon, in copycat incidents. Anyone with any information on the Boothtown assault is ...
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No to mandatory tests
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
By coincidence, a TTC bus driver was charged with impaired driving around the time that news broke about Almeida's condition. And these two incidents are ...
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Dog bite dispute elicits emotional response
Woodbridge Sentinel - NJ, USA
She was concerned over the safety of the children, since a local bus stop was across the street from the house that the dog lived [in]. ...
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Torch security heavy in China's Xinjiang
CNN International - USA
... deadly bus bombings in 1992 in the provincial capital,
Urumqi. Officials blamed such incidents on Uighur groups who seek an independent Muslim state. ...
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Bus Stations/ Bus Security/ Bus Related Incidents : Iraq
By Global Security News
Bus Stations/ Bus Security/ Bus Related Incidents :
Iraq more info GlobalIncidentMap.com provides details of this incident . To view full incident details you will need to click on the above link.
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One Missed Bus
By Kavin
I would like to share a few incidents. Incident 1: I had missed the college bus and on that day, I wanted to go to the college fast. So I decided to take a bus, which goes frequently to my college. It all started well as I got a seat ...
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Opinion: Motorists need schooling on bus rules
By commmonz(commmonz)
LTNZ research shows that while school bus-related incidents occur in equal numbers on high speed and lower speed roads, fatalities on high speed roads are much higher. 75% of school bus-related fatalities ...
Community Media of New Zealand - http://commmonz.blogspot.com/

Daily Crime Incidents for June 17, 2008.
By spdk(spdk)
On
03/06/2008 at 1830 hrs on Azizuddin road at Mangalore one driver of bus bearing Reg. No. KA-19-4949 drove his vehicle in a rash and negligent manner and applied break suddenly due which one Ramani (48) R/o Ananda Nagara Mangalore a ...
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2-day Crash Course in Attitude, Egotism, & Arrogance
By Amol Redij(Amol Redij)
There are many incidents that I can list down here. Not even once I was successfully able to negotiate and travel in auto at the rate I wanted to. I finally used to travel at whatever rate they commanded, after waiting for long hoping ...
Facts 'n' Fiction - http://amolsviews.blogspot.com/

Zambia: Re-Examine Buses, RTSA Orders NPS
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The directive follows the fatal NPS bus accident in which 27 passengers died on the spot, while 55 were injured along the
Great East Road in Nyimba. ...
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De-Caring the Idea of Cars as Safety Devices
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
About 115 people die each day in car accidents in the
US. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, there are about 43000 people ...
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Road accidents claim 10 lives
Newindpress - Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India
... a TNSTC bus at Bommikuttamedu in Puduchatram, near Namakkal, on Tuesday. THANJAVUR/NAMAKKAL: Road accidents claimed 10 lives in the state on Tuesday. ...
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Muni train was likely speeding before weekend crash
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
As is routine after serious Muni accidents, the operators of both trains were tested for drugs and alcohol and pulled from driving duties until the ...
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Three killed in separate accidents in Delhi
Thaindian.com - Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand
... June 17 (IANS) Three people were killed in separate accidents in
Delhi, the police said Tuesday. A 45-year-old woman was run over by a chartered bus in ...
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Paul Peete: McCain's Nuclear Solution a Threat To Us All
By Paul Peete(webmaster@huffingtonpost.com)
That, however, would entail shipping dangerous nuclear waste on trains and on our highways, with the nightmare scenarios of terrorist attacks or catastrophic accidents looming large.
France is often held up as a shining example with the ...
Off The Bus on HuffingtonPost.com - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/feeds/verticals/off-the-bus/index.xml

Deadly Week for Chicagoland Bicyclists
By Levin & Perconti
Sadly the accident became a fatal bike accident when the bicyclist passed away yesterday evening. Another
Chicago bicyclist injured this week was hurt by a CTA bus accident. News reports have announced that a wrongful death suit has ...
Illinois Injury Lawyer Blog - http://www.illinoisinjurylawyerblog.com/

JR bus fire
By cootieof03(cootieof03)
I thought about the people in the earthquake in
China and about how every day, people lose their lives to fires, car accidents, and many other things. I thought, I'm not unluckly...I'm very lucky!! Only lucky people survive bus fires ...
Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar in Japan! - http://cootieof03.livejournal.com/

Ban on Vipanya: Another punch on the head
By simbadeo
... by qualified drivers with valid licenses as part of efforts to reduce road accidents caused by reckless drivers. Mr Sekirasa further said that although the need to hike bus fares is prompted by skyrocketing global fuel prices, ...
simbadeo2000 - http://simbadeo.wordpress.com

On board with the bus
GoErie.com - Erie,PA,USA
Circumstances forced
Erie resident Rosalind Barnett, 43, of Erie, to start riding the bus. Her car broke down a few months ago. She became a patron of the ...
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Bus ridership up on County Connection
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
By Denis Cuff Ridership has surged on the County Connection bus system over the past two months as high gas prices push more people to look for cheaper ...
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Council blocks bus station move
The Daily Advertiser - Lafayette,LA,USA
Greyhound's plans to move its
Lafayette bus station to Moss Street hit a major snag Tuesday night. By a 6-3 vote, the City-Parish Council repealed a 2007 ...
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Motorcyclist killed in crash with bus
Pensacola News Journal - Pensacol,FL,USA
A Pensacola man was killed Tuesday morning when the motorcycle he was riding slammed into a day care school bus on
Creighton Road. Anthony W. Rutherford, 25 ...
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Proposed Votran funding cuts jeopardize bus to Orlando
Daytona Beach News-Journal - Daytona Beach,FL,USA
By BOB KOSLOW DELTONA -- Commuters to Orlando are riding the express bus in record numbers, but Volusia County officials are looking to drop out of the ...
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Modified Cedar Rapids bus service begins today
Gazette Online - Solon,IA,USA
CEDAR RAPIDS - Five Seasons Transportation will begin operating a modified city bus schedule at
6 am today. Rides will be free. No bus passes are needed to ...
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State adds bus to park-and-ride route as ridership spikes
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
The New Mexico Transportation Department is adding an extra bus to the park-and-ride fleet between
Albuquerque and Santa Fe to meet growing demand. ...
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Santa Rosa school bus drivers puzzled
Gulf Breeze News - FL, USA
BY PAM BRANNON Gulf Breeze News news@gulfbreezenews.com With the new three-tier bus scheduling for next school year, switching buses is not the only ...
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As gas prices rise, so does bus ridership
Wagoner Tribune - wagoner,OK,USA
Recently, city councilors voted to accept a one-year agreement with MTTA to continue to provide bus service and curb-to-curb handicapped transit service to ...
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Green Triangle Companies Connect Locally to Broaden Awareness of ...
dBusinessNews Triangle (press release) - Raleigh,NC,USA
On Thursday, June 19 th
Dartmouth’s Big Green Bus will make a visit to both companies to close the loop and mobilize broader awareness of climate change and ...
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2000 safety warnings issued by Bus Eireann school bus inspectors ...
37 school transport contracts terminated over safety concerns.
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Beaverton bus depot opponents lose again in court
By David Anderson, The Oregonian
Opponents of a
Beaverton School District bus depot expansion have lost another legal battle. The Oregon Court of Appeals today upheld a ruling by the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals that said the city of Beaverton acted properly in...
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New stops added to Kaua'i bus routes
MOLOA'A — Kaua'i County officials are adding two new on-call bus stops to regular routes on the north shore and westside, effective July 1.
Honolulu Advertiser - Breaking news - http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com

Teenager dies in school bus crash
A TEENAGER has died after his car was involved in a collision with a school bus.
Evening Star 24 - News - http://www.eveningstar.co.uk

Public vigilance averts disaster, hand grenade found inside a bus
By sinhale
Courtesy:SL Defence web A major disaster was averted this evening(June 18), when a timely detection of an improvised hand grenade was made by a passenger on a public transportation bus plying from Awissawella to Colombo, route no: 122 ...
Sinhale Hot News - http://sinhale.wordpress.com

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