Thursday, August 14, 2008

8/14/08

Man arrested in assault on teen girls near bus stop
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
Officers responded and arrested Francisco Hernandez, 39, around 6 pm One victim, a 13-year-old, told police she was on her way to the bus stop southwest of ...
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Morton East, West High Schools get new bus service
Chicago Tribune - United States
By Joseph Ruzich | Special to the Chicago Tribune Almost three months after prosecutors decided not to file criminal charges against a bus driver and an ...
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Franklin Twp. school bus collides with truck
Indianapolis Star - United States
By Bill McCleery A Franklin Township school bus carrying 13 students home from summer school crashed into a pick-up about
noon today, school officials said, ...
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Davis Schools tightening bus gas budget belt
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
Soaring fuel prices have hit the district hard in the budget, so
Davis officials are looking at ways to make the bus system more efficient. ...
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Sanan delays giving the nod to BMTA's bus lease project
Bangkok Post - Thailand
Deputy Prime Minister Sanan Kachornprasart of Chart Thai still has many questions over the Transport Ministry's multi-billion-baht bus lease project and ...
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Chattanooga police cruiser, bus collide
WAAY - Huntsville,AL,USA
(AP) - A police cruiser and a city bus collided but no one appeared to be badly injured. The 10 passengers on the CARTA bus were transported to Erlanger ...
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Kemper Freeman's transit delusions
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
Ten years ago he fought hard against Sound Transit's proposal for expanded rail and bus routes, and argued that we should instead build another 1400 miles ...
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Bus transportation department working for smooth transition
Gulf Breeze News - FL, USA
BY PAM BRANNON Gulf Breeze News news@gulfbreezenews.com Santa Rosa County School District has more substitute 'bench' bus drivers than ever before to start ...
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Bus collides with truck; no serious injuries
Chicago Tribune - United States
AP INDIANAPOLIS - No serious injuries were reported when a bus carrying 13 students home from summer school collided with a pickup truck in
Indianapolis. ...
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Clarksville Committee Approves Bus Fare Increase
Clarksville's city transportation committee approves a bus fare increase.
Nashville, TN News RSS Feed - YourStreet - http://www.yourstreet.com/nashville-tn

Comment on - News: Bus accidents in Peru's Andes leave 20 dead and ...
By jb
Category: Peru Again, and unfortunately, this is not news. It would be news if we could pass through just one week WITHOUT a tradegy like this. It i...[more]
Living in Peru : General comments - http://www.livinginperu.com/

Chattanooga Police Cruiser, Bus Collide
A police cruiser and a city bus collided but no one appeared to be badly injured. The 10 passengers on the CARTA bus were transported to Erlanger Medical Center for treatment of apparent minor injuries after the accident.
WTVF - Local News Headlines - http://www.newschannel5.com/global/category.asp?c=85323

In Maui, bus drivers wear…
>Hawaiian shirts of course! While you can't see a Maui Bus operator in there, that individual was wearing a hawaiian shirt. Kinda cool if you ask me. Which got me thinking - if...
Portland, OR News RSS Feed - YourStreet - http://www.yourstreet.com/portland-or

Campus Bus to cut services for 2008-09
IU’s student transportation fee has not increased enough to maintain transportation services for the 2008-09 school year.
IDS - NEWS WEB SITE - http://www.idsnews.com

nsit workers to vote on offer
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA
If Metro Transit strikes I'm willing to bet the majority of that increase will go back to being single-occupant cars. Metro Transit bus drivers, ...
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Transit trouble: Saving city buses
WACH - Columbia,SC,USA
By Brian McConchie Saving public transit remains a hot button issue in
Richland County. Midlands transportation took a hit last week when Richland County ...
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Google Maps Adds Mass Transit Support For S60 And Windows Mobile ...
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
Not too long ago, Google added transit directions to is Maps for
Mobile product. Initially, it supported just BlackBerry smartphones. ...
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Baltimore-Area Officials Plan $340M in Transit Work
Washington Post - United States
AP BALTIMORE (AP) -- Baltimore-area officials have decided to spend about $340 million over 20 years on mass transit projects. The action by the
Baltimore ...
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Ramping up, July 30: bridge safety and Portland mass transit
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
They even have a gondola as part of their transit package and the number of people cycling around town is impressive. In recent years, several
Los Angeles ...
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Contract vote set for Metro Transit workers
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA
By TIM HARLOW, Star Tribune Metro Transit bus drivers, light-rail operators, mechanics and office workers will meet Sunday to discuss and begin voting on a ...
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Birmingham-Jefferson County Transit Authority Discusses Operating ...
CBS42 - Birmingham,AL,USA
The Birmingham-Jefferson County Transit Authority held a special called meeting Tuesday to try and save some bus services. They met with Mayor Larry ...
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Metro Transit workers to vote on contract offer
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA
Details of the offer are not being released, but Michelle Sommers, president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005, says it addresses major issues. ...
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Female transit driver sexually assaulted at the wheel
TheChronicleHerald.ca - Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada
Amalgamated Transit Union Local 508 president, Dan MacDonald said he was talking to the woman around
2:30 am Wednesday. He said she probably won’t be back ...
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Sioux City Transit Welcoming Opinions on Route Changes
KPTH - Correctionville,IA,USA
Sioux City Transit is giving people in our hometowns a chance to speak out on the potential bus route changes. Consultants set up maps showing the changes ...
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All Aboard the Big Shiny Bus
By rss@masstransitmag.com (Joy Powell, staff)
Dakota County officials and commuters got a peek at what a bus of the future could look like.
MassTransitMag.com: Top Transit News - http://www.masstransitmag.com

Time for Transit Agencies to Eat their own Dogfood
By Cosmo Catalano
While I’ve loved seeing the waves of commuters switching over to mass transit to escape the pinch of higher gas prices, as well as the ever-more obvious impacts of a large carbon footprint, consensus around the country seems to be that ...
MATTER - Clean Technology, Green... - http://www.matternetwork.com/

Sound Transit places measure on November ballot
By news@tacomaweekly.com(Tacoma Weekly)
On July 24 the Sound Transit Board unanimously approved placing a 15-year mass transit package on the November ballot. The plan rapidly increases express bus and commuter rail service and creates a 53-mile regional light rail system and ...
Tacoma Weekly - http://tacomaweekly.com

NJ Transit Project In Jeopardy During Weak Economy
By falmanac(falmanac)
For the past 100 years,
New Jersey Transit and Amtrak have used one tunnel, under the Hudson River, to run trains into and out of New York. Transportation officials hope a new tunnel project, scheduled to start next year, ...
National Railroad News - http://railroadnews.blogspot.com/

Bicyclist, 76, struck by school bus
Long Beach Herald - Long Beach,NY,USA
"Accidents happen in Long Beach, but they happen much too often." He said the placement of the stop signs is confusing and the city council has neglected to ...
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36 Nepalese pilgrims die in Indian bus crash
AFP -
Accidents are frequent in impoverished Uttarakhand, where the mountain roads are treacherous, with many hairpin bends.
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Five dead, 23 injured in two bus accidents in Kazakhstan
RIA Novosti - Moscow,Russia
ASTANA, July 31 (RIA Novosti) - Five people have been killed and 23 injured in two major bus accidents in Kazakhstan, the republic's interior ministry said ...
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One killed, two injured in Chennai airport accidents
Thaindian.com - Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand
K. Shiva, 33, died on the spot when he came under a Paramount Airways bus a little before
noon, the police said. He was employed with Kingfisher Airlines. ...
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Death toll in highway crash rises to 14 in Colombia
Xinhua - China
Highway
accidents are common in Colombia as a result of risky road conditions, pronounced gradients and many cliffs in the zone due to the mountainous ...
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2 killed, dozens injured in separate road accidents
Kantipur Online - Kathmandu,Nepal
TANAHUN, July 31 - At least four people were killed in separate road accidents in Tanahun, Kaski and Sunsari district on Thursday. A passenger bus (Na 3 Kha ...
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Bus accidents in Peru's Andes leave 20 dead and 50 injured
Living in Peru - Lima,Peru
There were only supposed to e 34 people aboard the bus. It has also been reported that police have almost completely discarded that the accident was caused ...
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Communism = Atheism ?
By Hardik Ruparel
Bus accidents is the major slice of deaths in Kerala, and despite knowing everything, the government refuses to act and punish the drivers responsible. And Lots More… Anyway the highlight of this post of mine is the Kerala Text Book ...
A Day Without Chocolate - http://adaywithoutchocolate.com/

I Get High With a Little Help...
By vbonalesmd(vbonalesmd)
During the school year, we get called for mostly school bus accidents where there are a large number of patients that don't necessarily have to go to the hospital, but who all need medical clearance before being released. ...
I don't have ADHD... oh, look,... - http://journals.aol.com/vbonalesmd/emresident/

An accident with a hospital bus
By .: CherryTeresa :.(.: CherryTeresa :.)
I'm not really that pissed because I know that there are people who have been in much worse accidents than this. The main thing that I am dissatisfied about is that my mom has to deal with this and that the bus driver could have put a ...
CherryTeresa - my life. my opinions.... - http://cherry-teresa.livejournal.com/

Do You Need an Injury Lawyer?
By Patti(CrystalY)
Automobile Accidents; Bus Accidents; Truck Accidents; Motorcycle Accidents; Slip and Fall (premises liability) Accidents; Medical Malpractice Injuries; Birth Injuries; Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Cases; Defective Products ...
Glick Law Firm, PA - http://www.theglicklawfirm.com/blog.html

Bus accidents in Peru's Andes leave 20 dead and 50 injured
Ruiz The exact reason why a bus driver lost control of his vehicle late Tuesday evening and drove off a cliff in Peru's south-central Andes, landing 100 meters (328 feet) b...[more]
Living in Peru : News - http://www.livinginperu.com/

Blueline bus drivers face the music, 578 fined
Thaindian.com - Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand
New Delhi, July 31 (IANS) Over 500 private Blueline bus drivers have been fined for playing loud music while driving, the police said Thursday. ...
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Bitten by the Green bug...
By anianand(anianand)
I now prefer to travel in the
Delhi blue line buses (horrible and pathetic although) rather than going in for a bike and burning the precious oil. Even I’ve decided to change my bulb in the bathroom to replace it with a CFL. ...
idream3d - http://idream3d.blogspot.com/

The Hindu : New Delhi News : Motorcyclist run over by Blueline bus
NEW DELHI: A 22-year-old motorcyclist was run over by a Blueline bus at Badarpur here on Wednesday. The accident took place around noon when the bus plying ...

Violent incidents that have occurred on Greyhound buses in Canada
The Canadian Press - TORONTO
Man killed and beheaded on board a Greyhound bus near Portage La Prairie, Man. Police arrest a suspect. -
Dec. 24, 2007. A 27-year-old man is stabbed after ...
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Is pressure starting to get to Cubs fans?
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
Details on both incidents are sketchy, although I think it's safe to say that one answer to the question of what got into these particular Cubs fans could ...
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Beijing intensifies bus safety in wake of Yunnan explosion
Xinhua - China
A group calling itself the Turkistan Islamic Party claimed responsibility on Saturday for the explosions as well as several other incidents. ...
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Greyhound and Transport Canada in safety talks
London Free Press - Canada
Last night saw the worst incident on a Greyhound bus since the spokeswoman started with the company six months ago. An as-yet-unidentified man stabbed and ...
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Cunning ploy to catch Leeds bus vandals
Yorkshire Evening Post - Leeds,England,UK
... in the Belle Isle/Middleton ward and in one week in June four incidents were reported in which bus windows were broken, but luckily no one was injured. ...
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China deploys 25000 security personnel
Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia
Authorities have revealed few details of the incidents, but have denied claims by an Uighur separatist group that it was responsible. ...
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Hillclimb traffic incidents drop
Billings Gazette - MT, USA
Hillclimb organizers have developed a shuttle bus program and changed some rules at the venue to help reduce the number of alcohol-related incidents. ...
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Patience suggested after school bus goofs
News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
Wake school officials stress that both incidents occurred during the first two weeks of the year-round school calendar, a time when bus routes are still ...
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Incidents
By Karen(Karen)
I catch the bus every morning from
Bloomsbury to Shoreditch, either the 55 that goes along Old Street or the 242 that goes directly through the Square Mile, London’s business and financial hub. I far prefer the buses to the Tube ...
La Vida - http://sunset-glow.livejournal.com/

Doing some reading here
By Peter Westergaard(Peter Westergaard)
A friend and I were discussing gun ownership (the conversation had come from the recent horrifying
Manitoba bus incident, which turned to the not-so-recent church assault in the US, and on to an armed public). ...
Peter Westergaard - http://courtly.livejournal.com/

3:57 AM, I-95 N, Automatic Congestion, Congestion, US 70 BUS
Traffic is traveling at 29 MPH at: I-95 N; MM 97; US 70 BUS.
NCDOT Traffic Incidents for the... - http://apps.dot.state.nc.us/tims/

The facts on Barnstable School Committee's trip to the US Supreme ...
By displacedkanaka
This Court is apparently invited to view the harassment that occurred on the school bus and the subsequent incidents and interactions together for Title IX purposes. This Court rejects that invitation without reaching whether, ...
COG... - http://www.capecog.com/capecog/

How much attention should startups pay to customer support?
By Ashish Sinha
The CEO returned home and sent an mail to the customer apologizing for the experience, promising to put in place systems to prevent such incidents from occurring in future, and hoping that the customer would give the company a second ...
pluGGd.in to Indian Startups - http://www.pluggd.in

rooper: Franco in driver's seat at bus crash scene
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA
By PAM LOUWAGIE, Star Tribune WILLMAR -- A state trooper testified Thursday that when he arrived at the scene of the
Cottonwood bus crash, Olga Franco was ...
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A Prairie bus ride's descent into terror
National Post - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Canwest News ServiceRCMP investigate a stabbing on board a east bound Grey Hound bus . The stabbing occurred on the bus 18 km west of
Portage la Prairie Wed ...
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Miracle Landing for Passengers Thrown From Double Decker Bus After ...
FOXNews - USA
Several people have been injured after an open-top double decker bus carrying vacationing travelers, including children, overturned near Poole harbour, ...
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Washington bus tour promotes child health program
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
AP SEATTLE -- The Department of Social and Health Services has started a statewide bus tour to enroll more children in the medical assistance program for ...
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SI Attempts to Get People Off the Boat and on a Bus
New York Times - United States
“There’sa tour bus that just opened three weeks ago,” he told one couple from
England. A man in a red vest picked up on Mr. Yuen’s cue and rushed to hand ...
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Federal rules could end Notre Dame bus service
Chicago Tribune - United States
For years, buses from South Bend's public bus system -- Transpo -- have shuttled fans to campus from parking lots, South Shore Railroad stops, ...
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Tearful Testimony Begins In Bus Crash Trial
WCCO - Minneapolis,MN,USA
(WCCO) ― Testimony was heard from several people on Thursday in the trial of the woman accused of causing a deadly school bus crash. ...
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India bus crash 'claims 34 lives'
BBC News - UK
At least 34 Nepalese pilgrims have been killed in a bus crash near the town of Chamoli in the northern Indian state of Uttaranchal, officials say. ...
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Canada bus passenger stabs, decapitates seat mate
The Associated Press -
PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, Manitoba (AP) — A traveler aboard a Greyhound bus repeatedly stabbed and then decapitated his seat mate, pausing during the savage ...
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International bus news
By Amy(Amy)
Things are not so good in
Canada.
The Mighty 6 - http://mightysix.blogspot.com/

Man Decapited ‘Beheaded’ Aboard Greyhound Bus - Canada
By national
A man aboard a Canada Greyhound bus was decapitated after being repeatedly stabbed by another passenger. Police said Thursday they didn’t know what prompted a passenger on a Greyhound bus heading to Winnipeg to viciously attack the man ...
Homeland Security National Terror... - http://www.nationalterroralert.com

UK & World News: Porsche driver held over bus crash
A Porsche driver has been arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving after crashing head-on with an open-top bus which toppled on to its side throwing passengers from the vehicle.
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk - Home - News - http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/

Sleeping man beheaded on Greyhound bus
A passenger sleeping on a Greyhound bus was killed and decapitated by his seatmate on Wednesday night as the vehicle rolled across the Canadian prairies, witnesses said.
Mixx: News - http://www.mixx.com

Witnesses: Canada bus passenger beheads seat mate

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