Friday, July 11, 2008

7/11/08

Bus Service Not Keeping Up, Study Says
New York Times - United States
Average weekday ridership of New York City public buses operated by New York City Transit, a unit of the transportation authority, rose to 2.45 million in ...
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Vandalized Sound Transit rail car to move to Tukwila Station
Seattle Times - United States
Sound Transit has decided to move its recently vandalized train to the confines of Tukwila Station after the rail car was spray-painted over the Fourth of ...
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Transit Problem Unsolved
Mount Vernon Gazette - VA,USA
holds many of his town halls in accessible, transit-friendly areas like Arlington and Alexandria but the congressman decided to host his latest public ...
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Alberta spending $4 billion to reduce emissions with public ...
The Canadian Press - CALGARY
CALGARYAlberta has announced it will spend $4 billion over the next decade on green projects, including public transit and storage of carbon dioxide ...
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Alberta to spend $4B on transit and environment initiatives
Calgary Herald - AB, Canada
Transit money will be dedicated to energy-saving local, regional and inter-city public transit projects and programs.
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Transit authority to be turned into a development agency
Business Daily Africa - Nairobi,Kenya
July 9, 2008: Mombasa based Transit Transport Coordination Authority (TTCA) is set to transform into a development agency for the Northern Corridor. ...
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Spray-paint vandalism spurs Sound Transit to review security
Seattle Times - United States
Sound Transit will review its security plans since vandals spray-painted a new train in Tukwila over the Fourth of July weekend. ...
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Transit Television Network Announces Founder Marc Plogstedt as ...
FOXBusiness - USA
ORLANDO, Fla., July 7, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ ----Transit Television Network today announced that Marc Plogstedt was named as the President succeeding ...
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Transit glitch
The Gazette (Montreal) - Quebec,Canada
... tripcards equipped with magnetic stripes were adopted with great fanfare last April as part of a $169-million project by the Montreal Transit Corp. ...
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Russia transit payments possible -Finland ministry
Reuters - USA
HELSINKI, July 8 (Reuters) - Finland may be able to retaliate against increased Russian wood export tariffs by making Russian transit traffic pay for using ...
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Study Continues On High Speed Rail In Raleigh and NC
By Leo
This makes most sense because of the planned multimodal transit center to be built in the warehouse district. The project timeline was updated last month with an estimate to have passenger service running some time between 2015 and 2020 ...
The Raleigh Connoisseur - http://dtraleigh.com

Honolulu Mayor and Hawaii Governor Trade Barbs Over Rail
By rss@masstransitmag.com (Richard Borreca,...
Mayor Mufi Hannemann implied yesterday that he believes he is viewed unfairly whenever he assails critics, such as rail transit opponents, because of his racial background as a Samoan leader and his height of 6 feet 7 inches.
MassTransitMag.com: Top Transit News - http://www.masstransitmag.com

Networking Breakfast Set for Transit Center Contractors
Groundbreaking for the 29 million dollar Knoxville Station Transit Center took place June 9th and the primary contractor for the transit center, Johnson and Galyon, is wasting no time in alerting interested contractors of bidding ...
- http://www.cityofknoxville.org

Ilwaco port getting started on new public transit bus stop
PORT OF ILWACO - The Port of Ilwaco broke out brand-new shovels last week to break ground for a paving project at the Pacific Transit System bus stop at the port, during US Rep. Brian Baird's visit to the Peninsula.
- http://www.chinookobserver.com

Transit Advocates Call For More Funding {audio}
... provide enough money to maintain the current transit system. Listen: WGN's Rob Hart Reports (http://caster.wgnradio.com/news/080708transitfundingrha.mp3) Get the latest news at the top and bottom of every hour on News/Talk 720, WGN.
WGN Radio News Feed - http://wgnradio.com

Nigeria in a week of land feud and deadly road accidents
Religious Intelligence Ltd - England,UK
“The 18-seater bus was conveying pupils from Agbor town to Benin city in neighbouring Edo state for an inter-school debate on Friday July 4 when it crashed ...
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How we can prevent bus stop deaths
Las Vegas Sun - Las Vegas,NV,USA
Of the 2003 accidents, only 25 reportedly involved bus shelters. Similar numbers for 2006 were not available. But if the same percentage of crashes ...
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Buses crush man near college
Times of India - India
The accident happened just a day after the West Bengal Police issued a circular to the OCs of all police stations across the state to treat fatal accidents ...
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Four men killed in overnight road accidents
Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom
Two men, believed to be in their 40s, were killed in collision involving two cars and a bus on the Belfast-Larne road in Co Antrim at around 5.30pm ...
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Feds: Signage among factors in fatal team bus crash
CNN - USA
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Inadequate signage and traffic control devices on a
Georgia interstate contributed to a 2007 bus crash that killed seven people, ...
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A bus and two cars were involved in the crash
BBC News - UK
"It's an extremely dangerous part of that road, we've had a number of fairly near accidents there," he said. "This just makes it all the more important to ...
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Lee Bus Investigation entering month 20 in NTSB investigation
WAFF - Huntsville,AL,USA
"You have one of the serious accidents in the history of America, where you have four children killed in a bus wreck, accident and right at 30 injured, ...
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Series of accidents slow Highway 99 traffic
Bakersfield Californian (subscription) - Bakersfield,CA,USA
Earlier in the day, a school bus was hit by another vehicle in a parking lot at
1515 Feliz Drive, east of Cottonwood Road and south of Brundage Lane. ...
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Families of bus crash victims push for changes
WTHR - Indianapolis,IN,USA
"Accidents will occur, HOV lanes can be corrected," said John Betts, whose son was killed in the crash. "My son cannot be brought back. ...
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Faulty Signs Blamed for Deadly Bus Crash
Christian Broadcasting Network - Virginia Beach,VA,USA
Nine other accidents have occurred at the site within the last 10 years. They all involved out-of-state drivers. Investigators say the bus driver thought he ...
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NTSB Study on March 2007 Bus Accident Released Today
By Sandy Grinnell, Staff Contributor
The National Highway Traffic Safety Board (NTSB) has completed its investigation of the March 2, 2007 bus accident on I-95 in Atlanta, GA that killed 7 people, including the bus driver, and seriously injured seven of the passengers. ...
Injuryboard Regional Blogs - http://www.injuryboard.com/regional-blogs/

Public Transit
By Greg McElhatton
When I drive to or from work, barring accidents on the road my transit time is in the 15-20 minute range. With the bus, it’sa solid hour if the bus is on time. But I do like the chance it gives me to read while going to work; ...
Greg McElhatton - http://www.gregmce.com/

Two dead in bus car crash
By Praveen
The eye-witness of this tragic crash described it as a horrific accident; those Indian origin men who lost their lives were reported to be in their early 40s and were in the same car. The passengers in the bus and the person driving the ...
News.Scotland.Org - http://news.scotland.org.uk/

Sen. Sherrod Brown renews call for bus safety legislation
WASHINGTON, DC - With today's release of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigation of the bus accident involving Bluffton University baseball players, United States Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) renewed his call for ...
www.crescent-news.com's Homepage... - http://www.crescent-news.com/news

Safety board: signs factor in Atlanta bus crash
By JimsterP
NTSB Chairman Mark Rosenker called it "an accident that didn’t have to happen." "Had the appropriate investigation been done at the state level we might not be here today," he said. Investigators also said the 65-year-old bus driver ...
Channel Huntsville - http://www.channelhuntsville.com

Captain Under Investigation After Accident
Washington Post - United States
Taborn said Metro police are required to report all incidents involving pedestrians. The accident took place June 11, shortly after
2:10 pm, in the bus bay ...
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School Bus Cameras
KLFY - Lafayette,LA,USA
Nationwide incidents like a recent violent school bus fight in
Arizona have been caught all on tape and have left no unanswered questions. ...
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One man cut, another bit by dog during argument on near west side
Bloomington Pantagraph - IL, USA
Police were also looking into possible connections between Monday night’s case and two other knife-related incidents within that two-block area in the last ...
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D-day for 'bus wars' bosses
Manchester Online - Manchester,UK
Other incidents VOSA were concerned about ranged from driving the wrong way down a one-way street, to a lost Polish driver ripping the roof off a ...
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Will Chip Ganassi, Roger Penske Or HMS Succeed?
SportingNews.com - USA
We identified the Competition Director as Ganassi has titled as the line above the engineering with their test team and program managers information bus bar ...
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Durban businesses hit by Cosatu protest
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
Bus terminals were also empty. Metro police spokesperson Superintendent John Tyala said no blockades or incidents of intimidation had been reported. ...
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Greely's 'icon of daycare' gets probation
Ottawa Citizen - Ontario, Canada
Police and the Children's Aid Society only learned about the assaults after the victim in the second incident told a school bus driver, who told the child ...
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Bus Stations/ Bus Security/ Bus Related Incidents : Afghanistan
By Global Security News
Bus Stations/ Bus Security/ Bus Related Incidents :
Afghanistan more info GlobalIncidentMap.com provides details of this incident . To view full incident details you will need to click on the above link.
Close Protection Forum and Surveillan... - http://www.closeprotectionworld.co.uk

If Monster is weird, what about them?
By roy chee(roy chee)
While this evening on my way back from Bugis, I boarded a double deck bus where I sat all the way at the rear of the upper deck. The bus passengers were all well behaved with minimum noise. There wasn’t any selfish passenger around who ...
小恐龙 Little Monster Roy - http://royinmoonride.livejournal.com/

1:03 PM, US-70 W, Automatic Congestion, Congestion, Boiling St
Traffic is traveling at 26 MPH at: US 70 BUS W; MM 94.4; Boiling St.
NCDOT Traffic Incidents for the... - http://apps.dot.state.nc.us/tims/

Daily Crime Incidents for July 09, 2008.
By spdk(spdk)
On
07/07/2008 at 2115 hrs on Deralakatte - Asaigoli road at Konaje Mangalore one Yahyya driver of bus bearing Reg. No. KA-19-A-8907 drove his vehicle in a rash and negligent manner and dashed against a Honda Activa scooter bearing Reg. ...
spdk - http://spdk.blogspot.com/

Church Leaders Call For Fair Treatment of Relief Workers
By admin
Catherine Quehl-Engel reported incidents of workers traveling on a bus for 14 hours without food, tetanus shots, bedding or towels for showering. The workers received $15 a day for food and expenses and less than minimum wage ...
UM NeXus - http://www.umnexus.org/

Rybak opposes bus fare increase
A proposal to raise fares on Metro Transit buses and trains is under fire from Minneapolis Mayor RT Rybak. Rybak told Metropolitan Council officials at a public hearing today the hike will hurt transit ridership.
News & Features from Minnesota... - http://minnesota.publicradio.org/?refid=0

Your Green Life: "The Bike and Bus Boom"
You can drive, walk, bus, or bike...there are many options to get from here to there. But choosing the bus or man power may save you a lot of money...to say nothing of helping the environment. Avoiding the pump is a fast growing trend ...
Northland's NewsCenter Local News - http://www.northlandsnewscenter.com/news/local

Naked man arrested after hijacking Las Vegas bus
By The Associated Press
Posted:
10:17 AM- LAS VEGAS - Maybe he lost his shirt at a casino. Police in Las Vegas say they arrested a naked man who stole a beer and then hijacked a bus several miles northeast of the Strip.
Breaking News - http://www.sltrib.com

Birmingham bus smokers fined
Nearly two dozen smokers were prosecuted in Birmingham this week after being caught lighting up on buses.
Birmingham Post - News - West... - http://www.birminghampost.net/news/west-midlands-news/

Magellan Aerospace Delivers CASSIOPE Small Satellite bus to MDA
By nancy
Magellan Aerospace announced today successful formal delivery acceptance of the CASSIOPE small satellite bus by Macdonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) of
Vancouver. CASSIOPE is a multi-purpose mission.
Aviation.ca - Your Number One... - http://www.aviation.ca

Cops: Naked Man Stole Beer, Hijacked Bus
FOXNews - USA
LAS VEGAS — A naked man was arrested after stealing a beer and hijacking a transit bus several miles northeast of the Las Vegas Strip, police said. ...
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NJ Transit '09 budget includes no fare increases
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
NJ Transit says it's making cuts in marketing and advertising. A $1.3 billion capital spending plan also was approved Wednesday. It has money to modernize ...
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In Montreal: Transit trials
The Gazette (Montreal) - Quebec,Canada
MONTREAL - In April, the Montreal Transit Corp. introduced magnetic tripcards valid for six trips on the bus or métro. After glitches in its new system ...
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Ask Phoebe: Transit unfazed by heavy bridge buses
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
Photo / Brett Phibbs Transit
New Zealand plans to stop trucks over 13 tonnes using the Harbour Bridge clip-ons, and in fact there is already a truck ban in ...
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Transit cameras constantly on patrol
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
Waitemata Police communications manager Kevin Loughlin said the cameras were operated by Transit, which worked closely with the police in traffic management ...
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NJ Transit Offers New E-mail Alert Service
Cape May County Herald - NJ, United States
By Herald Staff NEWARK — NJ Transit bus customers can now receive up-to-the-minute travel information for their specific trip through the My Transit alert ...
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Jacobs' Joint Venture Team Selected for Sound Transit University ...
Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... has been selected to receive a construction management services contract from Sound Transit to extend light rail service to connect the region's three ...
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Naked Man Arrested After Hijacking Bus
KGTV, 10News.com - San Diego,CA,USA
LAS VEGAS -- A naked man was arrested after stealing a beer and hijacking a transit bus several miles northeast of the Las Vegas Strip, police said. ...
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Google Transit for Metro?
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
First, the news: Google Transit and Metro are still in talks to bring the popular online service to
Los Angeles County. Google Transit is a web-based ...
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Cubic Wins $45+ Million Contract Award From Miami-Dade Transit ...
CNNMoney.com - USA
Cubic's recent smart card system launches for the Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corporation (PATH) in New York-New Jersey and the Port Authority Transit ...
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Santa Fe County to Leave Transit District
By rss@masstransitmag.com (Kiera Hay, staff writer)
Following months of deliberation, and against the wishes of some state and elected officials, the Santa Fe County Commission on Monday voted to pull out of the North Central Regional Transit District.
MassTransitMag.com: Top Transit News - http://www.masstransitmag.com

Sound Transit, BNSF completing massive track and signal project
This month, Sound Transit and the BNSF Railway Company will reach the milestone of substantial completion on a project to improve 40 miles of track between Seattle and Tacoma, which will allow Sound Transit to begin running two ...
Sound Transit Latest News Releases - http://www.soundtransit.org

NJ Transit '09 budget includes no fare increases
NEWARK, NJ - Good new for commuters. NJ Transit's new budget contains no fare increases.
New Jersey News Headlines from... - http://www.phillyburbs.com/

Google Transit for Metro?
First, the news: Google Transit and Metro are still in talks to bring the popular online service to Los Angeles County. Google Transit is a web-based service that allows users...
El Monte, CA News RSS Feed - YourStreet - http://www.yourstreet.com/el-monte-ca

No fare increases for NJ Transit riders
By falmanac(falmanac)
NEWARK - New Jersey Transit today approved a spending plan Wednesday for the new fiscal year that includes $1.7 billion for operating costs, $1.3 billion for construction and does not raise rates to ride public buses and trains. ...
National Railroad News - http://railroadnews.blogspot.com/

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