Thursday, July 17, 2008

7/17/08

Bailiff ordered to seize JUTC bus
radiojamaica.com - Jamaica
... the Transport Minister met with scores of drivers at the bus company to voice his concern about the number of buses that were involved in accidents.
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Falcon announces $4.5M for Hwy 97
Williams Lake Tribune - B.C., Canada
... was instrumental in bringing the bus service to the area. Barnett said the four-laning of the highway will likely improve safety and reduce accidents. ...
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New night bus service hopes to reduce road deaths
Famagusta Gazette - Ayia Napa,Famagusta,Cyprus
JUL.08 A new night bus service aimed at serving young people is being launched in Nicosia. If the pilot scheme is successful, Minister of Transport Nikos ...
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Two people die and 12 others injured in an accident at Awutu Berako
Ghana News - Accra,Ghana
Awutu Berako(CR), July 14, GNA - An Akim Oda-Accra bound Mercedes Benz Bus knocked down two pedestrians killing them instantly at Awutu Berako in ...
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Dubai motorists penalised for parking in bus bays
GulfNews - Dubai,United Arab Emirates
Trucks violating traffic laws will be towed off roads to prevent accidents with other vehicles. Up to 450 more speeding radars may also be installed in ...
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Buses with modified chassis forbidden
DailyNewsOnline - Dar es Salaam,United Republic of Tanzania
He said the TBS set a national standard number TZS 598:1999; Automotive Engineering-Bus Body Building-Code of Practice, which every manufacturer or importer ...
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JUTC bus to be seized for court settlement
radiojamaica.com - Jamaica
Just Sunday, Mr. Henry met with scores of drivers at the bus company to voice his concern about the number of buses that were involved in accidents.
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Funny insurance claims
By Mick's Page.(Mick's Page.)
I had been driving for forty years when I fell asleep at the wheel and had an accident. * I left for work this morning at
7am as usual when I collided straight into a bus. The bus was 5 miniutes early. ...
Mick's Page 2. - http://micks-experimental.blogspot.com/

Two Washington Nationals Fans Killed on Open Top Double Decker Bus ...
By FanIQ Blog(FanIQ Blog)
As we pause for the All-Star Break, be sure that you stay safe out there the rest of the season. While freak accidents can happen, we don't need to be hearing more stories like this one. 2nd Victim In Open-Top Bus Accident In DC Dies ...
FanIQ Blog - http://FanIQ.com/blog.php

10 Reasons Why Higher Gas Prices Could Be A Good Thing
By Jason A. Hendricks
Less cars on the road, obviously means less traffic accidents, which , of course, means less injuries due to accidents. In the long run, this could eventually lead to some slight drops in health care insurance premiums and car insurance ...
The Adventurist - http://skinnymoose.com/adventurist

Foothill Transit gets bump in ridership
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
I had breakfast on Monday with Felicia Friesema, the spokeswoman for Foothill Transit. The agency provides bus service throughout the
San Gabriel Valley. ...
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New MAX bus service begins with faster travel; some confusion with ...
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
By Brandon Loomis People load up on Utah Transit Authority's new bus line called MAX, Utah's first bus rapid transit line that connects Magna and West ...
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Lingle signs anti-rail petition
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
Linda Lingle has signed an anti-rail petition to give
Oahu voters the choice of whether or not they want a rail transit system. The governor announced on ...
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AEP SmartGate's Functionality Protects Personal Data in Transit
MarketWatch - USA
HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, UK, Jul 14, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- In response to the tightened Information Assurance (IA) standards of the recently published ...
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Electro Energy to Provide Battery for Fuel Cell Bus Project
MarketWatch - USA
Georgetown University
, under a Grant from the Federal Transit Administration, is developing the next-generation liquid fueled (methanol) fuel cell power ...
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Have you parked your car in favour of public transit?
CTV.ca - Canada
I will never park my car in lieu of public transit. Public transit, over the years and from when I went to school, has gotten worse. ...
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Taking care of your personal safety when travelling transit
News1130 - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
Transit riders are talking about taking care of their own safety, after more attacks near train stations. There was an assault outside the Nanaimo SkyTrain ...
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Old cure for today's transit ills
Staten Island Advance - SILive.com - Staten Island,NY,USA
... with possible segments of the route that extend onto regular streets, could draw even more riders to transit, and could be just as fast as trains, ...
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$200 million for transit in NDP plan
Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada
In a press release,
Layton said his plan to take one cent a litre from the federal gas tax would mean $100 million over four years for transit in the city. ...
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Is Chennai a drug transit point for Beijing Olympics?
IBNLive.com - New Delhi,India
Chennai: After 17 cases of drug seizures in the city in less than a year’s time, authorities fear Chennai could be a transit point for drug smugglers headed ...
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First Edition of MTA New York's Subway Gazette Rolls Off Press
By rss@masstransitmag.com (US States News)
Well, MTA New York City Transit has just the thing - the first edition of the Subway Gazette. The Gazette is a mock newspaper outlining issues of importance within the subway system, printed on a car card and prominently displayed.
MassTransitMag.com: Top Transit News - http://www.masstransitmag.com

'Windy City' transit authority interested in RTA Euclid Corridor ...
By James Ewinger
Chris Stephens/The Plain DealerA view from
Fenn Tower of a completed section of the Euclid Corridor Project. The Chicago Transit Authority officials have announced a similar plan at an estimated cost of $200 million. ...
Cleveland Metro News – The... - http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/

News Links
By Gabriel Lopez-Bernal
These are the issues and articles we’ll be addressing over the next week or two:.
Braman Falls flat on his face in the opening arguments of his lawsuit against the Miami Mega Plan (Miami Herald); Midtown Miami falls way short of its ...
Transit Miami - http://www.transitmiami.com

in the news
By TL(TL)
Maybe you've heard that we M*tro Tr*nsit drivers have rejected the first final offer from the company. And when I say "we," I only include myself in solidarity, because I didn't vote. Our union president spoke to the class of new ...
The Transit Librarian - http://transitlibrarian.com/

Man mowed down by Blueline
Thaindian.com - Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand
New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) An unidentified man was crushed to death by a Blueline bus near Shastri Bhavan in the capital Monday evening. The bus was plying ...
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MY DAD - Memoirs
By Seema
We usually ended up taking a Red line bus or a Blue line bus. We board these private buses and say “Staff” and lo and behold the commute was free. This magic word was widely used by all college students to travel free and if the bus ...
Apostrophic Metis - http://manasinakkare.wordpress.com

Take a Hike!
By inklets
Apart from the constant threat of being run over by speeding vehicles, drunk drivers, people driving in wrong lanes or jumping red lights and homicidal drivers (eg: Blueline buses in Delhi), your lungs are getting an excessive dose of ...
- http://inklets.wordpress.com

With or Without You
By Indrani
Agastya was sitting on a steel bench at Platform Number 4 of the CP station, which lies along the Blue line of the
Delhi Metro. It is the best thing that has ever happened to Delhi, he thought. He looked at the numerous people that ...
The Viewspaper - http://theviewspaper.net

Life abroad...
By danielshoe(danielshoe)
I arrived in
Delhi at like 8 pm in the evening and the first thing that struck me was the heat. Oh, the summer heat of Asia. After Delhi, nothing will ever be "too hot" for me again. Literally, every time we walked out, ...
Wanderlust - http://danielshoe.blogspot.com/

200 drunk partygoers attack Coast bus
Sunshine Coast Daily - Queensland,Australia
He said Saturday’s incident was the “worst in a long time”. For the most part incidents of attacks on buses had been reduced since the introduction of late ...
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Blocking of roads, incidents unacceptable - minister
Times of Malta - Valletta,Malta
Transport Minister Austin Gatt said he could not understand why the bus, taxi and mini-van drivers decided to strike yesterday when the government's ...
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Traders vent anger on road
Times of India - India
NEW DELHI: Traders from Madangir in south Delhi blocked traffic on the main Shiekh Sarai crossing on the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor on Monday morning, ...
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Readers' letters: Don't shut down our vital local post offices ...
Peterborough Today - Peterborough,England,UK
I suggest that the bus passes display an "eye" logo rather than clock for blind/partially sighted people. The incidents have been embarrassing and demeaning ...
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Bus Stations/ Bus Security/ Bus Related Incidents : Myanmar
Incident ID 9964 : To view full incident details click on the link above.
Global Incident Map - http://www.globalincidentmap.com

12:30 PM, US-70 W, Automatic Congestion, Congestion, Boiling St
Traffic is traveling at 27 MPH at: US 70 BUS W; MM 94.4; Boiling St.
NCDOT Traffic Incidents for the... - http://apps.dot.state.nc.us/tims/

It's been too long...
By Kate(Kate)
Aside from that I'll start this blog post by sharing my two recent incidents of intense homesickness… Get the sad stuff out of the way :>) The first was this past Saturday when I went down to Mefoup. It ended up being a late day and Leo ...
Cameroonian Kate - http://camerooniankate.blogspot.com/

emocratic National Committee: Dean to Lead National Voter ...
MarketWatch - USA
The cross country bus tour, "Register for Change," will build on the overwhelming enthusiasm and voter turnout seen during the primaries as Democrats ...
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Bus Suspends Service After Rider Fatalities
Washington Post - United States
AP A sightseeing bus is suspending its shuttle service to Washington Nationals games following the deaths of two riders. The two men were riding on the ...
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MAX bus a hit with some, a bust with others
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
By Brandon Loomis To much fanfare, the Utah Transit Authority starts up MAX,
Utah's first bus rapid transit line, which connects Magna and West Valley City ...
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Three children, one adult struck by bus in west suburbs
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
Three children and one adult were hospitalized Monday night after they were struck by a reported Pace bus in west suburban Oak Park. ...
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Bus-Tech's Mainframe VTL Available through Hitachi Data Systems
MarketWatch - USA
The addition of the Bus-Tech MDL solution increases
Hitachi's ability to address the problem of storing mainframe tape data on disk. ...
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Maryland to Convert Bus Fleet to Hybrids
Washington Post - United States
AP BALTIMORE -- Gov. Martin O'Malley wants
Maryland's entire fleet of transit buses to be diesel-electric hybrids. O'Malley announced Tuesday that he has ...
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C-SPAN's election bus pulling into Austin
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
C-SPAN's "Road to the White House" tour bus is set to stop in
Austin Wednesday. The tour bus, a 45-foot mobile production studio, travels to political ...
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School bus tips over on highway
Santa Rosa Press Democrat - Santa Rosa,CA,USA
A school bus carrying nine students overturned Monday afternoon on Highway 101 near Asti, skidding on its side for 200 feet before coming to rest in the ...
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Teen hit by car "didn't know which way to go," bus driver testifies
Dayton Daily News - Dayton,OH,USA
By Lou Grieco DAYTON — As the Mercedes-Benz flew toward him, Julian Hill made futile attempts to get to safety, his school bus driver testified Tuesday. ...
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Collins Bus Partners w/ Seat Company
KWCH - Wichita,KS,USA
Collins Bus is teaming up with a seat manufacturer out of
Ohio to build seats for it's buses. CE White Company will build an assembly plant on K-96 near ...
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Bus strike over
The bus drivers and their employers announced late Tuesday night that they had each signed off on a new agreement, ending the bus strike.
The Local - Sweden's news in English - http://www.thelocal.se/

Bus crash under investigation
Only 9 students on board when the CHP says the driver overcorrected and tipped the bus onto its side, sending it sliding across Highway 101.
news | SR | http://www.pressdemocrat.com - http://www.pressdemocrat.com

Bus Driver Charged in Deadly Accident; Teen Fights to Make Stretch ...
By WSPA(WSPA)
Lakeview Baptist Church bus driver Phillip Farmer was charged Tuesday in the Pickens County wreck that resulted in his own injury and the death of an 11-year-old rider. Now, one of the children at the church is fighting to make that ...
Local News for WSPA - http://www.wspa.com/spa/news/local/

Woman waiting at bus stop hit by car
Hamilton- A woman has been sent to hospital in critical condition after a car slammed into a bus shelter around 6:30 am this morning.
The Spectator News - http://www.thespec.com

Gunbus - The Two Wheeled “Bus
By News Reporter
It’s not a bus, it’sa bike, but what a bike! Even if you are extremely extravagant, you can buy it have the ride of your life, perfectly legal. Gunbus 410 looks like an exagerated sculpture, made by a maniac motorcyclist. ...
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Madigan's plan would generate $1.8 billion for road, mass transit ...
Chicago Tribune - United States
... a "little capital plan" Tuesday that would generate $1.8 billion for road and mass transit projects in Illinois in an effort to capture federal funds. ...
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MARTA gains traction in Gwinnett
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
Still, some seized on the MARTA questions as a bellwether for opinions on suburban transit four decades after Gwinnett voters declined to help fund the ...
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Bicycles Added To Razorback Transit System
KHBS/KHOG 40/29 - Fort Smith,AR,USA
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- Students at the University of Arkansas have been depending on Razorback Transit for years, but now a new addition to the transit ...
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MD Public Transit Is Going Green
WMDT - Salisbury,MD,USA
By KEIRA BENSON -- WMDT
7/15/2008 Public Transit buses in Maryland are going hybrid. Tuesday Governor Martin O'Malley announced that the Maryland Transit ...
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School Board agrees to try chief’s transit plan
Houma Courier - Houma,Louisiana,USA
After considering a number of plans -- including one to privatize school-bus transit -- the board tasked Richard with "reorganizing" the department. ...
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NYC Transit Fears Anti-Groping Campaign Will Increase Groping
Jossip - New York,NY,USA
New York City Transit will not implement an ad campaign to fight subway groping that it already began working on after a study found some 10 percent of ...
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A one journey pass to include all modes of public transit on one ...
The Almanac Online - Menlo Park,CA,USA
Better transit to SFO and SJC airports from the
Peninsula would really help. Maps at Bart stations telling you where you are appearing when you come above ...
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Market Report -- In Play (F)
MSN Money - USA
Co also announces Ford Transit commercial vehicle sales hit first-half record of 99400 vehicles in the Euro 19 market. Briefing.com is the leading Internet ...
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Indo-Bangla meet: Talks on transit and water issues
The Daily Star - Dhaka,Bangladesh
THE Indian high commissioner's observation that transit rights through
Bangladesh is essentially an economic issue, not political, is, prima facie, correct. ...
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Proposed Federal Transit Rules Upset Districts
Education Week News - Bethesda,MD,USA
By Christina A. Samuels The Federal Transit Administration wants public transit agencies to get out of the business of creating routes designed exclusively ...
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Top News: Pricey Gas: Fewer Cops, More Potholes
By rss@masstransitmag.com (By Steve Hargreaves,...
In what seems to be a perverse reaction to high gas prices, some cities are cutting back on public transit - at a time when their citizens need it most. Due to skyrocketing fuel costs local governments are being forced to trim all sorts ...
MassTransitMag.com: Top Transit News - http://www.masstransitmag.com

Solutions to Soaring Fuel Costs - Mass Transit
And while a lot of steam continues to pump into alternative fuels like hydrogen and ethanol, many are just looking at alternative ways of getting around. KSEE 24's Justin Willis chose to save some money by taking mass transit.
KSEE 24 - Local News - http://www.ksee24.com/news/local

Springfield public transit gets $1.47 million boost
Public transportation in Springfield just got a $1.47 million boost in federal funds from the Department of Transportation, US Sen. Kit Bond announced today.
News-Leader.com - Top Stories - http://www.news-leader.com

School Board agrees to try chief's transit plan
HOUMA -- After months of hostile meetings between the Terrebonne Parish School Board and its bus drivers, both have agree to support a plan the superintendent says may resolve ongoing conflicts in the transit department.
news | HC | http://www.houmatoday.com - http://www.houmatoday.com

Proposed Federal Transit Rules Upset Districts
FTA wants agencies to get out of the business of creating routes designed exclusively to take students to and from school.
Education Week American Education... - http://www.edweek.org/

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