Saturday, November 15, 2008

11/15/08

KBC, Washington transit agency resolve dispute
Reuters - USA
BR: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) and the Washington, DC area's transit agency reached a settlement on Friday on a soured leasing deal that could ...
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Officials to take lead on regional transit plan
Fort Mills Times - Fort Mill,SC,USA
Officials in Jackson, Clay and Platte counties say they will take the lead on a regional mass transit plan in wake of Kansas City's failed light-rail ...
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Shore Transit Cuts Jobs And Routes
WMDT - Salisbury,MD,USA
By KEIRA BENSON -- WMDT 11/14/2008 Two Shore Transit employees are losing their jobs. Friday officials announced they'd be cutting driver positions that ...
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Log Cabin Democrat
Transit system continues to take shape
Log Cabin Democrat - Conway,AR,USA
By JOE LAMB The Conway transit system steering committee met to refine the scope and vision of a proposed city bus system Friday. ...
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Money for transit must be confirmed
Ottawa Citizen - Ontario, Canada
Ottawa's new transit plan is running into serious affordability problems even before it is approved. Sources familiar with the funding situation say the ...
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Mass transit services latest to feel financial hit from state
The Southern - Carbondale,IL,USA
By Mike Riopell, The Southern Springfield Bureau SPRINGFIELD - Add this to the list of problems a tight state budget is causing: Some transit systems ...
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Sound Transit sale-leaseback could suffer in credit crunch
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
Almost half of the vehicles in the Sounder commuter rail fleet of locomotives and rail cars aren’t owned by Sound Transit. And that could end up costing the ...
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California cities wrestle with bailout
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
Reed said San Jose needed federal money to complete funding for the extension of the Bay Area Rapid Transit line, or BART, and to expand the area's clean ...
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LAYOFFS: Lower Shore transit authority cuts 2 driver slots, blames ...
Delmarva Daily Times - MD,USA
By Deborah Gates • Staff Writer • November 14, 2008 SNOW HILL — Shore Transit on Friday laid off two drivers, effective immediately, as the regional ...
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Report: San Jose wants $14B in bailout funds
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
San Jose -- which had a total budget of $3.3 billion for 2008/2009 -- wants the money primarily to help pay for rapid transit extension and expand clean ...
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FTA announces intent to award $813 million University Link light ...
Sound Transit today hailed notification of Congress by the Federal Transit Administration that it plans to enter into a grant agreement with Sound Transit to provide $813 million to build the University Link light rail extension.
Sound Transit Latest News Releases - http://www.soundtransit.org/

Bus driver who choked child may face charges
Houston Chronicle - United States
AP DALLAS — A grand jury will determine whether a former Dallas school bus driver should face criminal charges for choking a mentally disabled child on her ...
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Las Vegas-area bus fares to increase in January
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
AP LAS VEGAS—Riding the bus in and around Las Vegas is about to get more expensive. The Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada approved ...
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Street fight brews over bus-shelter contract
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
The City Council gave tentative approval to select Clear Channel Outdoor last summer to replace, upgrade and maintain furniture at 1300 bus stops in the ...
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Beer-drinking bus driver fired
Edmonton Sun - Alberta, Canada
By SUN MEDIA OTTAWA -- After one of their school bus drivers was caught drinking on the job, Campeau Bus Lines is making some changes to an already strict ...
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A bus ride, a borrowed iPod - and a furious fight for his life
Globe and Mail - Canada
21, 2006, on an Ottawa bus. Wrenchingly for Mr. Oatway's friends and family, who filled the small courtroom, yesterday the witness also agreed with a lawyer ...
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BBC News
Tribute paid to bus accident teen
BBC News - UK
The funeral has taken place of Ciara Park, the 16-year-old girl who died after being knocked down by a bus in Belfast city centre on Tuesday. ...
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Marijuana smell saturates school bus
Star Community Newspapers - Plano,TX,USA
McKinney police inspected McKinney High School students after school officials detected the smell of marijuana on a school bus. By Danny Gallagher, McKinney ...
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Activity Bus And Car Collide In Alamance County, One Dead
WFMY News 2 - Greensboro,NC,USA
Mebane, NC -- Troopers are investigating a fatal crash in Alamance County involving a bus full of cheerleaders. Investigators say the activity bus from Hope ...
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Burkina bus crash kills 41
Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg,South Africa
OUAGADOUGOU, Nov 15 (Reuters) - At least 41 people were killed and many others seriously injured when a bus collided with a truck 200 km (125 miles) west of ...
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Video shows Dallas bus driver choking student
KVUE - Austin,TX,USA
By SHELLY SLATER DALLAS - A camera captured images of a mentally challenged-bipolar student being choked by a school bus driver in Dallas. On a normal day, ...
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Bus project’s costs soar
By GR Staff
GUADALAJARA - It’s no news that public works deadlines are rarely met in Mexico.
Guadalajara Reporter: Latest News - http://guadalajarareporter.com/
Student's mom accused of punching pregnant school bus driver
By Marty Powell
A Houston area mother has been charged with assault after allegedly punching a pregnant school bus driver Thursday morning. Submitted by Marty Powell to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment.
Care2 News Network - Newly Submitted - http://www.care2.com/news/submitted
Bus to the future
Staff Writer Sixty parents, administrators and community members took a long look at the future Friday.
News from www.thereporteronline.com - http://www.thereporteronline.com/
Argentina bus hijack fans charged
By god
Nearly 70 fans of an Argentine football club are charged after hijacking two buses to get to their team's game, say police. 24 Vote(s)
Blogmyway News / Published News - http://blogmyway.org/papadodo/

Soccer-Argentine fans hijack public buses to go to match
Reuters.uk - UK
Police official Carlos Durante said that in two separate incidents in Buenos Aires on Thursday night, Chacarita Juniors supporters forced passengers to get ...
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1 killed, 15 hurt in another bus-related accident
GMA news.tv - Quezon City,Metro Manila,Philippines
It was the latest in a series of bus-related incidents dating back to Oct. 21, when a speeding bus rammed a sedan along Epifanio delos Santos Avenue in ...
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Narrow escape for students in bus collison
Times of India - India
Luckily, there were only three students in the bus when the mishap took place. The injured passengers were admitted to Kharar civil hospital and the ...
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BB and rock damage vehicles in unrelated Anderson incidents
Anderson Independent Mail - Anderson,SC,USA
Police said a fourth grade student at Southwood Middle School is suspected of firing a weapon at a 34-year-old bus driver, according to the incident report. ...
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Op-Ed Contributor Have You Driven a Bus or a Train Lately?
New York Times - United States
... and bus systems that would improve our travel options, reduce global warming, conserve energy, minimize accidents and generally improve the way we live. ...
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AFP
At least 66 killed in Burkina Faso road accident
AFP
... when a bus and a truck collided and caught fire in Burkina Faso in one of West Africa's worst road accidents, the country's transport minister said. ...
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3 men killed in accidents
Times of India - India
In the third accident, a 26-year-old man was killed after he fell down from a moving bus near Natraj Fun Cinema at Moti Nagar of west district at around ...
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Road accident in Burkina Faso kills more than 60
The Associated Press
Compaore said the driver of the bus was alive, and had reported more than 80 passengers inside the vehicle when the accident occurred. ...
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Report: 34 killed in road accident in Burkina Faso
The Associated Press
Road accidents are common across West Africa, particularly toward the end of the rainy season when already degraded roads are washed out and potholes fill ...
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Nigeria: 218 Die, 612 Injured in One Route in Yobe
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
In most cases, the accidents were attributed to human factor including bad roads, over loading and over speeding and a cursory analysis shows that many of ...
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Malawi: Road accidents on the increase
By Moderator(Moderator)
... if people are not careful on the roads of Malawi. Malawi is one of the countries in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) that registers a high rate of road accidents, mainly attributable to mini bus drivers.
Stories on Malawi - http://storiesonmalawi.blogspot.com/

Multiple-bus accident leaves witnesses shocked
GulfNews - Dubai,United Arab Emirates
The accident occurred when the driver of the RTA bus - one of the vehicles involved in the crash - had slammed on the brakes too hard to avoid colliding ...
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Trolley collision injures 7, delays Green Line
Boston Globe - United States
Five minutes later he told us that, due to "traffic," there were shuttle buses upstairs to Government Center. Never once did he say there was an accident up ...
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Risky rides across Tanzanian on a bus
DailyNewsOnline - Dar es Salaam,United Republic of Tanzania
Manufacturers of buses knew full well that there would be accidents and built the early automobiles with emergency doors. They continue to do so until ...
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Police investigate road accident
ZNBC - Zambia
The Police Service is still investigating the cause of the accident involving an NPS bus in which 29 people died on June 14th this year along the Great East ...
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Daily Guide
10 Killed. In accident
Daily Guide - Accra,Ghana
One Oduro, a teacher by profession, who witnessed the horrific incident, told DAILY GUIDE that the accident occurred at exactly 8:40 am when the Benz Bus ...
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DC transit, bank reach deal on AIG-tied funds
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington transit system reached an agreement Friday with a Belgian bank seeking $43 million from a financing deal gone bad after the ...
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Federal Govt. Asked To Back Transit System Lease-Back Loans As AIG ...
AHN - USA
New York, NY (AHN) - Some of the nation's public transit systems are at risk of defaulting on more than $2 billion in bank loans backed by troubled ...
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DC transit, bank reach deal on AIG-tied funds
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington's transit system has reached a deal with a Belgian bank trying to collect $43 million from an arrangement gone bad because of ...
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Clinton refuses to address Obama cabinet talk
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
In Albany to address a public transit industry conference, Clinton walked without a word past a gathering of about a dozen reporters who shouted questions ...
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AsiaOne
Fuel, power costs eat into SBS Transit's profit
AsiaOne - Singapore
By Elizabeth Wilmot BUS and rail operator SBS Transit suffered a 17 per cent slump in third-quarter net profit to $8.3 million as higher expenses such as ...
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President takes part in Baku Energy Summit
UNIAN News Agency - Kiev,Ukraine
Speaking about Euro-Asian oil transit route President Yushchenko said that Ukraine is fully dedicated to implementation of the project. ...
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Clinton talks transit a day after Obama meeting
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
Hillary Rodham Clinton is in Albany to address a public transit industry conference. The senator, who was re-elected to a second term in 2006, ...
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NJ Transit offers direct updates on bus, train delays
Press of Atlantic City - Atlantic City,NJ,USA
Really Simple Syndication, or RSS, allows for direct feeds from NJ Transit's Web site to media and personal Web pages. Subscribers get information on ...
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Shore Transit awaits word on layoffs
Bethany Beach Wave - Bethany Beach,DE,USA
By Deborah Gates • Staff Writer • November 14, 2008 SALISBURY -- Officials at the Lower Shore's financially pinched public transit system are expected to ...
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Top News: AIG's Woes put Public Transit in Trouble With Banks
By rss@masstransitmag.com (From Emily Anderson CNN)
The ongoing financial crisis could put public transit systems nationwide at risk of defaulting on more than $2 billion in loans backed by troubled insurer American International Group, an industry advocacy group said Thursday.
MassTransitMag.com: Top Transit News - http://www.masstransitmag.com/
Transit on Track: Metro Reaches Deal With Belgian Bank
Metro and KBC Group agree to a settlement to end a long-term leasing deal.
NBC Washington - Local News - http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/
-year-old boy left on school bus in Baxter
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA
The boy was found unharmed in the bus at the Cass County home of the bus driver, who has been fired. Associated Press BAXTER, MINN. ...
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Stolen tour bus recovered in Michigan
Chicago Tribune - United States
AP ALBION, Ind. - Police have found a 45-foot tour bus stolen from a northern Indiana garage in a Detroit suburb and have arrested a man they believe was ...
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Pace budget will raise bus fares effective Jan. 1
Chicago Tribune - United States
Suburban bus riders will see higher fares starting Jan. 1, but they can still transfer onto Chicago Transit Authority buses and trains using a new seven-day ...
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Metro hosts Wilshire bus lane meetings beginning tonight
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
A quartet of public meetings begin tonight to discuss the proposed Wilshire bus lane project. The idea is to dedicate the right-hand lane to buses on ...
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Anguish of rush hour bus tragedy girl's family
Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom
By Matthew McCreary A teenage girl who was killed in a tragic bus accident was last night described as a “wonderful and much-loved daughter”. ...
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Council OKs $238M budget -- and bus fare increase
The Capital Times - Madison,WI,USA
The council eventually voted 12-8 in favor of the mayor's plan for Metro, with one amendment that would move funds from the free bus ride program on Clean ...
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CROSSTOWN BUS ON A SNAIL TRAIL
New York Post - New York,NY,USA
By TOM NAMAKO, Transit Reporter At an average 3.7 miles per hour, it's the M96 crosstown bus. That pace was slow enough to take home the Straphanger ...
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Council OKs capital budget; bus fares, road projects are hot topics
The Capital Times - Madison,WI,USA
Other speakers in favor of an operating budget to keep Madison Metro fares at current levels included Laurie Wermter, a member of the Madison Area Bus ...
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Marion County: Another driver sought in school bus crash
Police are looking for the driver of a small, red pickup truck with no front bumper who investigators said may have been contributed to a Wednesday afternoon school bus accident in Marion County.
TimesFreePress.com Breaking news - http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/breakingnews/
No injuries in Starke County school bus accident
STARKE COUNTY — A rough start to the school day for students on a bus in Starke County.
WSBT - News - Local News - http://www.wsbt.com/news/local
> Boston commuter bus facility to open
The Union Leader - Manchester,NH,USA
The bus facility is one of a number of efforts by the Department of Transportation to deal with the construction project, including an incident management ...
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School Bus Driver Arrested For Allegedly Exposing Himself
WFtv.com - Orlando,FL,USA
"We've had similar incidents like this happen," said Clark. "That's why from time to time we conduct surveillance and undercover operations out there. ...
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Sex offender caught after attacks on city buses
This is Nottingham - Nottingham,England,UK
On one occasion he leant forward and kissed the neck of a woman sitting in front of him on a bus. In other incidents he groped and grabbed women before ...
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Daily Crime Incidents for November 13, 2008.
By spdk(spdk)
On 12/11/2008 at 1530 hrs near Bus stand at Lalbagh Mangalore one Sukhdev (25) R/o Baikampady Mangalore passenger of the bus bearing Reg. No.KA-19-A-2112 while getting down from the bus, the driver of bus moved the bus in a negligent ...
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School bus crash in Hardee County
Hardee County Fire Rescue received a call at 2:07pm to respond to a motor vehicle crash involving a van and school bus at the intersection of Highway 17 South and State Road 66 in Zolfo Springs.
School Safety News - Last 25 Incidents - http://www.schoolsafetynews.com/
Bus Driver Chokes Mentally Challenged-Bipolar Student
By freedomrebel
Documents show dozens of incidents where special education bus drivers were forced to take off without backup. That didn’t help Pitts’ case. She was terminated, but appealed the decision. The board decided to reinstate Pitts in April. ...
TheZoo - http://tpzoo.wordpress.com/
Bicyclist run over, driver attacked in separate bus incidents - Topix
Bicyclist run over, driver attacked in separate bus incidents. Metro Transit buses were involved in two very different incidents on Thursday, Oct. ...
THOMPSON DEMANDS DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION ADDRESS SCHOOL BUS INCIDENTS
Oct 29, 2008 ... EDUCATION ADDRESS SCHOOL BUS INCIDENTS. In the wake of yet another incident involving a child left on a school bus, New York City ...
Family left devastated by girl’s death in bus accident
Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom
By Matthew McCreary A teenage girl who was killed in a tragic bus accident was last night described as a “wonderful and much-loved daughter”. ...
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Despite BRT, commuters suffer and smile in public buses
The Punch - Lagos,Nigeria
Overloading has its consequences; a common one involving the urban mass buses is the loss of control by drivers, resulting in accidents. ...
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Cop among 3 killed in serial accident
Times of India - India
Around 8 pm, a KSRTC bus, plying between Shidlaghatta and Bangalore, jumped the lane and ploughed through the mob gathered around the body. ...
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Bus shortage: Commuters take hit
The Statesman - Kolkata,India
Owing to the bad condition of the roads, most of the bus owners refuse to drive at night to avoid accidents. “Earlier in 2005, similar problems had cropped ...
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Look Both Ways Before You Cross. Then Look Again. And Again Warns ...
MarketWatch - USA
"As a personal injury lawyer in New York who has handled dozens of cases involving pedestrian-vehicle accidents, I see situations like Matthew Long's all ...
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Accident victim's mum launches road safety campaign
Bradford Telegraph Argus - Bradford,England,UK
... vehicle which is a primary causation for most accidents involving child pedestrians and then just stepped out straight in front of an oncoming bus. ...
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Intensified drive vs. colorum vehicles, PUVs set next week
Philippine Star - Manila,Philippines
Torredes mentioned of 1164 traffic-related accidents that took place in various places of the region from September 23 to October 23 and that most of these ...
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Five killed in Jammu and Kashmir road accident
Thaindian.com - Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand
The bus was coming from Thathri to Pul Doda in the mountainous Doda district when it met with the accident at Karara rolling down into a 300 feet deep gorge ...
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Teen Struck By Bus Dies
4ni.co.uk - UK
"This is a dreadful tragedy in the heart of our city and we need to make sure there are no more accidents like this," he said. "It is an exceptionally busy ...
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Joanna Jesh driver in deadly EDSA accident walks free
ABS CBN News - Philippines
The bus driver involved in a freak accident on Epifanio delos Santos Avenue (EDSA) that killed eye doctor Francisco Sarabia walked out of jail Wednesday ...
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ProPublica
How Transit Agencies Got Caught in AIG’s Collapse
ProPublica - New York,NY,USA
But, even with the bailout, AIG's slow-motion collapse has threatened to take with it many of the nation's transit agencies. Banks and financial firms could ...
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PQ promises $3.5B for public transit
The Gazette (Montreal) - Quebec,Canada
A Parti Québécois government would spend $3.5 billion over ten years on public transit in Greater Montreal, PQ leader Pauline Marois said Wednesday. ...
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Urban Mapping Launches Mass Transit Proximity API
MarketWatch - USA
With Urban Mapping's URBANWARE(TM) Mass Transit Proximity API, developers and publishers can enhance the value of local content by adding transit-related ...
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Metro Officials Seek Protection From Bank Action
Washington Post - United States
The hearing, before US District Judge Rosemary Collyer, is being watched by transit agencies and other public entities across the country. ...
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SBS Transit profit falls 17%
Straits Times - Singapore
By Elizabeth Wilmot BUS and rail operator SBS Transit on Wednesday posted a 17 per cent slump in third quarter net profit to $8.3 million, ...
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Cambie merchants sue transit builder
Canada.com - Don Mills,Ontario,Canada
Three Cambie Village merchants have filed a lawsuit against builders of the Canada Line, claiming the rapid-transit project cost them hundreds of thousands ...
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Compute the commute to save
Chicago Tribune - United States
By setting aside part of their pre-tax earnings, commuters can help cover transit or van-pooling costs. The wrinkle is that fewer than 2000 Chicago-area ...
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Arizona Republic
Arizona lacking money for new roads and mass-transit projects
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... fast-growing Arizona once again without a way to pay for what officials call "critical" transportation projects such as new roads and mass transit. ...
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South metro angry over transit plans
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA
"All this money into the transit blob, yet we can't improve roads outside the beltway because there's no money left." Both counties are pointing out that ...
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Tulsa Transit eyes price increase for bus riders
Tulsa World - Tulsa,OK,USA
By BRIAN BARBER World Staff Writer Tulsa Transit is considering across-the-board bus fare hikes to help pay for increased operating expenses. ...
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Woman crushed by school bus
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
A woman crossing at an intersection in northeast Toronto yesterday morning was struck, crushed then dragged beneath a small school bus. ...
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Bus collides with tow truck, injuring three
Shreveport Times - Shreveport,LA,USA
By Loresha Wilson • ljwilson@gannett.com • November 12, 2008 2:00 am A SporTran bus carrying one passenger collided with a tow truck Tuesday, ...
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Woman killed by school bus
A woman knocked down by a school bus yesterday regularly crossed the Scarborough intersection where she died, Toronto Police Sgt. Tim Burrows said.
Toronto Sun - News - http://www.torontosun.com/news/

RCMP rule out charges in fatal Bathurst bus crash
By CBC | Top Stories News
The New Brunswick RCMP have ruled out any charges in the tragic Bathurst bus crash that killed seven high school basketball players and one elementary teacher.
Woman.ca - http://woman.ca/

Utah Bus Drivers Should Hang Up and Driver
By Ron Kramer
I suggested that a ban should be a “no brainer” and that the Board doesn’t need to wait until there is a bus accident or serious personal injury before acting decisively to prohibit bus drivers talking on phones or texting while driving ...
Utah Law Talk - http://www.utahlawtalk.com/

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