Tuesday, July 22, 2008

7/22/08

Public invited to open house for transit center
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
The project is a joint venture of
San Jose, Santa Clara and the Valley Transportation Authority to create a 42-acre transit center that serves Caltrain, ...
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In transit
The Times - Johannesburg,Gauteng,South Africa
Airlines are to be banned from attracting customers with low flight costs that hide the true price of the journey, under a regulation agreed in the European ...
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Bombardier still interested in TTC contract
CTV.ca - Canada
TORONTO — Bombardier Inc. says it is still interested in pursuing the $1.25-billion contract to supply Toronto's transit system with new streetcars despite ...
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Verizon, Chicago Transit ink subway deal
United Press International - USA
CHICAGO, July 19 (UPI) -- Chicago Transit Authority officials say they've struck a deal with Verizon Wireless to provide cell phone service in the city's ...
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Transit to cut four routes
Chillicothe Gazette - Chillicothe,OH,USA
By LOREN GENSON • Gazette Staff Writer • July 19, 2008 Chillicothe Transit riders in four Ross County communities may have to find alternative ...
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Police say two teens confess to vandalizing old NJ Transit garage
Warwick Advertiser - USA
Warwick — Two Warwick teens, aged 14 and 15, have admitted involvement in breaking into and vandalizing the old New Jersey Transit garage on Galloway Road. ...
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North Liberty transit will reroute
Iowa City Press Citizen - Iowa City,IA,USA
North Liberty transit will reroute Wednesday, Thursday and Friday as officials prepare for the Register's Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa, or RAGBRAI. ...
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There's lots the city could do on the cheap to improve transit
The Gazette (Montreal) - Quebec,Canada
The Montreal Transit Corp. said this week that without getting a lot more provincial funding it would be unable to do much to improve bus and métro service. ...
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Is Mass Transit Beating Up Auto Driving?
By Ed
But reading news articles gives one the impression that mass transit it kicking butt! Cars are, ya know, so passé. The APTA says Americans public transportation in record numbers the first three months of this year, taking 2.6 billion ...
American Dream News - http://americandreamcoalition.org/adcblog2

Voters may get regional transit, train tax
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - The Bernalillo County Commission took the first steps today in a multi-country effort to put a transit tax on the Nov. 4 election ballot.
Albuquerque, NM News RSS Feed... - http://www.yourstreet.com/albuquerque-nm

Turkmenistan okays transit, Czech soldiers leave for Afghanistan
By Czech Happenings
Prague- The Czech military Airbus A-319 that had to return to
Prague since Turkmen authorities denied it flight over Turkmenistan on Friday left again…
Prague News - http://prague-news.cz

Transit taking pictures of diamond lane abusers
... lane and you're liable to get caught by a hidden camera. Winnipeg Transit is setting up a photo enforcement camera to take photos of cars using the diamond lane during afternoon rush hour on southbound Osborne Street at Mostyn Place.
wfpLIVE Local News - http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local

Transit to cut four routes
Chillicothe Transit riders in four Ross County communities may have to find alternative transportation as the city looks for ways to make the system more profitable - in part as a way to find funds to help make a proposed new transit ...
chillicothegazette.com - Local News - http://chillicothegazette.com/

Driver cited in bus crash with injuries
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
The driver of an Arrow Stage Lines tour bus apparently lost control of the vehicle while steering around a curve, causing the bus to overturn and catch fire ...
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On the bus: Dean registers Democrats in Shreveport
Daily Comet - Thibodaux,LA,USA
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean took his voter registration drive to Shreveport on Saturday as dozens of people greeted his bus on its ...
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14 killed in Nepal bus accident
The Associated Press -
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Police say a bus veered off a mountain road and plunged into a river in central Nepal, killing 14 passengers and leaving several more ...
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Bus hits pothole, plunges into Nepal river
CNN International - USA
KATHMANDU, Nepal (CNN) -- At least 15 passengers were killed Friday when a bus hit a pothole on a highway in Nepal and plunged into a river west of ...
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Nepal police: 14 killed in bus accident
CNN International - USA
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- Police say a bus veered off a mountain road and plunged in a river in central Nepal killing 14 passengers while several more are ...
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Two killed in Ohio bus accident
WTTE - Columbus,OH,USA
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A sport-utility vehicle has crashed into a public bus in Columbus and two men have died. Columbus police say Jacinto Inostros drove ...
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Bus hub moving to new location
Gazette Online - Solon,IA,USA
The transit hub, where people can transfer from buses, has been operating at Fourth Avenue and 12th Street SE since flooding damaged the city bus depot at ...
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Woman Shot Multiple Times At Gwinnett Bus Stop
WSBtv.com - Atlanta,GA,USA
Gwinnett County police said a woman was shot multiple times at a bus stop near the Gwinnett Place Mall Friday night. Authorities said the victim, ...
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3 injured after driver slams into GVT bus
KJCT8.com - Grand Junction,CO,USA
BY ROBERT GARRISON GRAND JUNCTION (KJCT) -- Three people were transported to St Mary's Hospital after a minivan rear ends a GVT bus that had stopped to pick ...
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Group stuffing 'bus' with school supplies
Several local groups have teamed up to host a "stuff the bus" school supplies drive to provide backpacks, notebooks, binders and other items for needy students in Tucson Unified School District .
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Ancient finds at a British bus station dig
Stone Age pits containing tools and pottery have been uncovered during work on a new bus station in Warwickshire (England). Digs for the bus station in Warwick started in early...
Stone Pages Archaeo News - http://www.stonepages.com/news/

Goodies on bus service
Passengers travelling on First bus services from Glasgow to Largs have been offered free raffle tickets.
Teletext Central Scotland News - http://www.teletext.co.uk/regionalnews/central-scotland/default.aspx

Two killed in Ohio bus accident
Associated Press - July 19, 2008 9:25 AM ET COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A sport-utility vehicle has crashed into a public bus in Columbus and two men have died.
Columbus, OH News RSS Feed - YourStreet - http://www.yourstreet.com/columbus-oh

Plans For Bus Station And Hotel Sites
By Giles
Suffolk Coastal District Council has received planning applications for a number of developments in Felixstowe, including a new Lidl supermarket at the old bus station site, new houses and flats in the grounds of the Ordnance Hotel ...
Felixstowe TV : News - http://www.felixstowetv.co.uk/

Nine Indian soldiers killed, 16 hurt in Kashmir attack
AFP -
SRINAGAR, India (AFP) — Nine Indian soldiers were killed and 16 others injured Saturday when their bus was hit by an improvised explosive device in the ...
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Clondalkin bus services to resume evening trips
Irish Times - Dublin,Ireland
Evening services were diverted after an increasing number of incidents in which rocks were thrown at buses resulting in broken windows, National Bus and ...
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Upstate school bus driver pleads guilty to sex abuse charges
Fox44 News - Colchester,Vermont,USA
The charges stem from incidents in 2007 involving three boys between 12 and 14 years old. Authorities say Conrad met 1 of the boys while working on his bus ...
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Man stabbed at bus stop
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
Though the incidents are unrelated, this is the second bus-stop attack this month on East Grant. On July 7, two teenage girls were injured — one critically ...
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Khloe Kardashian Survived Life Behind Bars
Blogger News Network - USA
TMZ reports incidents that occurred to Khloe while she spent her brutal time behind bars. The whole ordeal began with her ride to jail on the bus. ...
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Bus Stations/ Bus Security/ Bus Related Incidents : India
By Global Security News
Bus Stations/ Bus Security/ Bus Related Incidents :
India 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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Bus Stations/ Bus Security/ Bus Related Incidents : India
Incident ID 10040 : To view full incident details click on the link above.
Global Incident Map - http://www.globalincidentmap.com

12:45 PM, US-70 W, Automatic Congestion, Congestion, Boiling St
Traffic is traveling at 25 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 19, 2008.
By spdk(spdk)
The motive seems to be dispute over timing of the bus routes. Others: Nil Spl. And local laws: Nil. Unnatural Death Report: 01. A case of Unnatural Death Report has been registered in Mangalore Rural Police Station. ...
spdk - http://spdk.blogspot.com/

Close Encounters Of The Worst Kind
By Mary Witzl(Mary Witzl)
I still find it amazing that those two incidents occurred during my first two months in
Japan. In all the years after that, I never saw anything to match the yakuza in the post office or the violent drunk on the bus. ...
ResidentAlien - http://witzl.blogspot.com/

RAILROAD.NET • View topic - School Bus incidents in Dover, NH have ...
An incident this grossly negligent doesn't deserve a suspension or a warning. One can only hope he doesn't get picked up by another bus service. ...

The State | 07/19/2008 | Day camp employee is fired after bus incident
Jul 19, 2008 ... Four people have been fired or disciplined after a 7-year-old Columbia girl was left on a Richland 2 bus for two hours at the end of Boys ...

olice in India say 17 killed in bus accident
The Associated Press -
It was not immediately clear what caused the truck to veer into the path of the bus, causing the accident near Etah, a town some 185 miles southwest of ...
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TABOA discredits AKIBOA on night travel
IPPmedia - Dar es Salaam,United Republic of Tanzania
By Darius Mukiza Recent remarks by bus operators of Arusha and Kilimanjaro that buses should not travel at night do not disturb Tanzania Bus Owners ...
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14 killed in Nepal bus accident
Forbes - NY,USA
By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA 07.19.08,
12:36 AM ET A bus veered off a mountain road and plunged into a river Saturday in central Nepal killing 14 passengers and ...
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Doom unfolds at Lucky Charhaee ramp
Daily Times - Lahore,Pakistan
DSP Faisal Noor said that about 30 small accidents had taken place at that spot, but he did not have an exact figure.
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A bloody bus ride into eternity
The News - International - Pakistan
He said a motorcyclist had met an accident on the main road; hence, the driver changed direction of the coaster. In the meantime, a bus coming from
Quetta, ...
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14 killed in Nepal bus accident
The Associated Press -
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A bus veered off a mountain road and plunged into a river Saturday in central Nepal killing 14 passengers and leaving many missing. ...
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Police in India say 17 killed in bus accident
It was not immediately clear what caused the truck to veer into the path of the bus, causing the accident near Etah, a town some 185 miles southwest of Lucknow, the state capital. Deadly road accidents _ common occurrences in India _ ...
World | AP | Huffington Post Wires - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/

Automobile versus pedestrian accidents analysis by fixed ...
OBJECTIVE: Using computer simulation to analyze the effects of speed, type of automobile and impacted position on crash-course and injuries of pedestrians in automobile vs. pedestrian accidents. METHODS: Automobiles (bus, minibus, ...
Safetylit: Transportation Issues - http://www.safetylit.org/

Police in India say 17 killed in bus accident
It was not immediately clear what caused the truck to veer into the path of the bus, causing the accident near Etah, a town some 185 miles southwest of Lucknow, the state capital. Deadly road accidents - common occurrences in India ...
TheState.com: World - Wire - http://TheState.com/372/index.rss

Automobile versus pedestrian accidents analysis by fixed ...
OBJECTIVE: Using computer simulation to analyze the effects of speed, type of automobile and impacted position on crash-course and injuries of pedestrians in automobile vs. pedestrian accidents. METHODS: Automobiles (bus, minibus, ...
SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - http://www.safetylit.org/

Automobile versus pedestrian accidents analysis by fixed ...
OBJECTIVE: Using computer simulation to analyze the effects of speed, type of automobile and impacted position on crash-course and injuries of pedestrians in automobile vs. pedestrian accidents. METHODS: Automobiles (bus, minibus, ...
Safetylit: Pedestrians and Bicycles - http://www.safetylit.org/

oman crushed to death by Blueline bus
Thaindian.com - Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) A 21-year-old woman was crushed to death by a Blueline bus in Patel Nagar area of the capital, the police said Sunday. ...
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Neuschwanstein Castle
By geomon
we headed back to the station and the bus was packed with americans and chineese tourists,and it reminded me of a blue-line bus. the train trip back home had us seated next to some american students who were on their way to Prague.we ...
BLOG-Job - http://geomon.wordpress.com

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