Wednesday, December 17, 2008

12/17/08

NY Transit Agency Approves Budget With 23 Percent Fare Boost
Bloomberg - USA
“This is a double-whammy of paying more and getting less,” said Albert, a non-voting board member who heads the New York City Transit Riders Council. ...
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NY transit authority to backstop equipment leases
Reuters - USA
The mass transit agency could have replaced the insurers but that was too difficult in the current market. "The one indication of interest the MTA received ...
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Regional transit board gives $3 million to Norfolk's light rail
The Virginian-Pilot - Norfolk,VA,USA
The money had been reserved for a Newport News transit project that studies showed would not meet federal funding guidelines. Norfolk Mayor Paul Fraim said ...
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Ulster transit goes green with hybrid bus
Mid-Hudson News - Newburgh,NY,USA
KINGSTON – Going green may take some time, but the Ulster County Area Transit finally unveiled its new hybrid bus Wednesday after a three-year wait. ...
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City of Burbank to Premier World's First Plug-In Fuel Cell Transit Bus
MarketWatch - USA
Other agencies involved in this pioneering project include California Air Resource Board (CARB), California Energy Commission and the Federal Transit ...
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Miami-Dade Transit surtax funds a step closer to being rerouted to ...
Miami Today - Miami,FL,USA
The county's Transit Committee voted last week to allow most of the proceeds from the voter-approved half-cent surtax contribute to transit operations and ...
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NY transit agency to vote on 2009 budget
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
NEW YORK - The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority board is considering a 2009 budget that ultimately could raise subway and bus fares while ...
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Mass transit requires regional thinking
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
The city council in the north-side suburb of Johnston voted Monday night to formally withdraw from the Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority (DART). ...
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Snow Could Change Metro Transit Routes Wednesday
KIROtv.com - Seattle,WA,USA
SEATTLE -- With a storm warning from the National Weather Service for up to six inches of snow in King County, Metro Transit and county crews are preparing ...
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Two-time 'A' champ Transit Tech weathering 'AA' storm
Five Boro Sports - New York,NY,USA
In fact, he wants his East New York Transit Tech boys’ basketball team, which won the last two city ‘A’ titles, to compete in such a division. ...
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MassTransitMag.com » Article » Pittsburgh Transit Contract OK'd ...
Top Transit News. Most Read Stories Today Most Read · Most E-mailed Stories Today Most E-mailed · E-mail This Story E-mail Article · Print This Story Print Article. Pittsburgh Transit Contract OK'd; Fare Hike Possible. Mark Belko ...
MassTransitMag.com: Top Transit News - http://www.masstransitmag.com/
Seattle Transit Blog» News Roundup
Transit News Roundup · Shilshole to Downtown Ferry? Gasoline Sales Tax for Transit? What Seattle Gets out of ST2 · Tourist Attraction Vs. Mass Transit · Link Rail Assembly · Sound Transit Lunch Bus · Streetcar Looking Positive ...
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newsdurhamregion.com | Durham's transit-friendly future
Durham Region News - Ajax, Brock, Clarington, Durham, Education, Oshawa, Pickering, Scugog, Uxbridge, Whitby and surrounding areas.
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Residents denounce transit shutdown :: Local News :: Post-Tribune
Oland and NWICA attorney David Beach also irritated residents who were hoping the pair would provide answers to their questions, such as what alternatives to closure the agency had explored and what transit options remained for riders. ...
Post-Tribune :: News :: - http://post-trib.com/news/
Connelly: Don't Trust The Experts... Trust Me! | Orphan Road
Sound Transit News. Sound Transit seeks public comment on East Link light rail options · Refunds will remedy incorrect license renewal payments for vehicles outside RTA boundary · Refunds will remedy incorrect license renewal payments ...
Orphan Road - Documenting Seattle's... - http://www.orphanroad.com/
Israel probes horrific bus crash
BBC News - UK
Israeli officials are continuing to investigate how a tour bus ploughed off a desert road and plummeted down a ravine, killing 24 people. ...
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Bus routes at risk as revenues slip
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
The bus drivers' union has not been told of any layoffs. Such notification normally would come well ahead of route cuts. "I've not heard anything that ...
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Take the bus to the inauguration
WTOP - Washington,DC,USA
"I would recommend, if you are in the District of Columbia, that you try to get on the bus system," Catoe said on WTOP's Ask Metro Program Tuesday. ...
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Boy reports being attacked by 10 males at bus stop
Buffalo News - NY, United States
A 15-year-old boy told Buffalo police he was approached by a group of 10 males and attacked while standing at a downtown bus stop Monday evening. ...
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Israel: Russians Killed in Bus Plunge
New York Times - United States
By ETHAN BRONNER At least two dozen Russian tour guides were killed and another two dozen injured Tuesday when a bus driving them from an Israeli airport to ...
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School bus and police cruiser collide in Stockton
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
The California Highway Patrol is investigating a crash in Stockton involving a school bus and a police car. Authorities say the Manteca school district bus ...
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NYPD: 32 injured after NY fire truck, bus collide
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
NEW YORK - More than 30 people are injured after a New York City fire truck and a city bus collided on a Brooklyn street. Fire and police officials say the ...
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Man sought who trailed girl from bus stop, threw her lewd picture
TCPalm - West Palm Beach,FL,USA
LUCIE — Police are looking for a man accused of throwing a picture of male genitalia at a 10-year-old girl as she walked from her school bus to a day care ...
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Bicyclist dies in collision with Votran bus
Daytona Beach News-Journal - Daytona Beach,FL,USA
By LYDA LONGA DAYTONA BEACH -- Sitting at the front of the Votran bus with her 3-year-old granddaughter by her side, Gladys Williams watched in horror as ...
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Bus driver to appear in court : South Africa: News: News24
News24: South Africa: News: Bus driver to appear in court : The driver of the crashed SA Roadlink bus is to face 11 counts of culpable homicide, as it emerged parts of the bus were made of fibreglass and had no reinforcing.
South Africa - http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/Home/0,,2-7,00.html
Province Invests in New Express Bus Service | News Releases ...
By Communications Nova Scotia
The new express bus is designed to accommodate shift-workers at Michelin's Waterville facility. The service is being subsidized by Michelin. The province is investing about $115000 in the service over the next two years. ...
Government of Nova Scotia News Releases - http://www.gov.ns.ca/news/
17 Bus Sliding Into Vancouver
17 Bus Sliding Into Vancouver. ... I'm on the no 17 bus going into vancouver and we are really sliding around. several times the bus has slid into the curb and there are nervous chuckles from tha passengers. ...
The News is NowPublic.com - World:... - http://www.nowpublic.com/developing?filter=news&order=recent
East Bay Express | News | Stranded at the Bus Stop
Even as Oakland's schools have created more specialized campuses, their.
East Bay Express - http://www.eastbayexpress.com/
Yucca Valley bus driver suspected of driving schoolchildren while ...
A bus driver was arrested Monday morning on suspicion of driving schoolchildren while drunk soon after he dropped off children at La Contenta Middle School in Yucca Valley, the California Highway Patrol said in a news release. ...
PE.com - Daily News Digest - http://blogs.pe.com/news/digest/
No injuries when Dover school bus and cars collide
Foster's Daily Democrat - Dover,NH,USA
Assistant Fire Chief Richard Driscoll said the school district and bus company have a plan in place for these types of incidents where all parents are ...
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Mam’s action call after bus stop incident
WalesOnline - United Kingdom
... Kayleigh to the bus stop one morning. And Rhondda Cynon Taf Council says incidents that take place outside of the school are parents’ responsibility but ...
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Plano ISD Bus Spanking and Payday Loans | Discipline is Choice
Personal Money Store Blog - Spokane,WA,USA
Ms. Khonsari claims that there were two separate incidents between Kaleb and Atkins, and she has security camera footage to back it up. ...
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Weapons incidents under investigation
TheChronicleHerald.ca - Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada
Police said a man was confronted by a teenage boy as he was getting off a bus. The masked suspect pointed a handgun at the victim and stole his iPod, ...
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The Coalition for Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports ...
By tcpbis
Ms. Khonsari's accusation stems from two instances in early November in which a school bus driver grabbed Kaleb, spanked him and choked him on a Plano ISD bus, according to security camera footage filmed onboard the bus. ...
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Bus driver & aide face criminal charges | WIVB.com
District leaders say that only a half dozen students were on the bus at the time of the alleged incidents, and they were made up of a blend of special education and behavioral needs students who attended alternate schools. ...
WIVB TV - http://www.wivb.com/
FDNY truck collides with bus
NY Daily NewsNEW YORK — An FDNY truck rushing to a car fire slammed into a city bus at a Brooklyn intersection on Tuesday, injuring 30 people in a wreck of twisted metal.
Firerescue1 Daily News - http://www.firerescue1.com/
NCDOT: Travel Information
Congestion - Expected Impact to traffic is Medium, Start Time. 12/17/2008 07:05 AM. End Time. 12/17/2008 09:05 AM. Reason. Automatic Congestion: Congestion. Traffic is traveling at 20 MPH at: US 70 BUS E; MM 94.4; Boiling St ...
NCDOT Traffic Incidents for the... - http://apps.dot.state.nc.us/tims/
SCV Sheriff - News Room: Investigation Continues Into Air Gun ...
During several of the incidents the windows of vehicles were apparently shot out by suspects wielding BB or pellet guns, and in one incident a 13-year-old girl was shot with a BB gun as she was sitting at a bus stop near Soledad Canyon ...
SCV Sheriff - News Room - http://incident.scvsheriff.com/news_room/

Icy Indiana roads prove hazardous for school buses
Education Week News - Bethesda,MD,USA
The crash about 35 miles northeast of Indianapolis was one of several statewide Wednesday involving school buses in a rash of accidents during icy weather ...
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Accidents claim two lives in Kharar
Expressindia.com - New Delhi,India
Dass said the accident took place when Amandeep was trying to overtake the tanker and a Punjab Roadways bus hit him from behind. Amandeep fell down and the ...
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No students injured in crash with bus -12/17/2008, 1:08 PM
Hays Daily News - Hays,KS,USA
"Even with good clearing of roads, the number of road accidents typically will double" during wintery weather, Hartsfield said. "People don't drive for the ...
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Cape Town bus safety inspection
The Times - Johannesburg,Gauteng,South Africa
... operating as they did not have legal permits." The major cause of bus accidents were driver error, overloading, vehicle defects and fatigue, Lourens said.
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Bus operator's licence withdrawn
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
SA Roadlink has a history of accidents in the province and several of its buses have been declared unroadworthy by provincial authorities in the past two ...
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Icy weather slides into Valley
Terre Haute Tribune Star - Terre Haute,IN,USA
A city bus struck a van parked along the 1200 block of South Seventh Street about 9 pm Tuesday, one of dozens of similar accidents throughout the Wabash ...
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Wow, that was a commute
Park Record - Park City,UT,USA
The authorities said they had been called to numerous accidents by midmorning Tuesday. They indicated none of the accidents were serious. ...
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California Car Accident and Injury Lawyer Blog | Orange County ...
Orange County School Roof Collapse Injures Fourteen · Hollywood Screenwriter Charged in Los Angeles Car Accident · Sacramento Bus Accident Claims One More Life · Driver Arrested in San Mateo County Alcohol Related Car Crash ...
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Police refute Mofaz's statement on race between bus drivers ...
Twenty-four people died Tuesday when the bus of Russian tour operators overturned and rolled into a ravine near. Dozens more were wounded. It was one of the worst accidents in Israel's history. Earlier tolls put the number of dead at 25 ...
JPost Front Page Top Stories - http://www.jpost.com/
How much are your fees | Lawsuit Funding Answers
The type of injury meaning how bad is the injury and what type of accident. Car accidents tend to give better rates than other types of personal injury cases because negligence is easier to prove. If it is a catastrophic injury the ...
Lawsuit Funding Answers - http://answers.lawleaf.com/
Do schoolbuses have seatbelts? - Telecaster Guitar Forum
Thirty-five years ago in California, UCLA engineers performed a series of classic school bus crash studies, which determined that the major cause for injury in school bus accidents was the inadequacy of school bus seats. ...
Telecaster Guitar Forum - http://www.tdpri.com/forum/
Nuances of a Railroad Accident Lawsuit : Malpractice Case Law Blog
Nuances of a Railroad Accident Lawsuit · After a Catastrophic Bus Accident, Your Bus Accident Lawyer Can Pursue Many Legal Avenues · Michigan Personal Injury Laws · Marina Del Rey Injury Attorneys May Be More Important In The Future ...
Malpractice Case Law Blog - http://malpracticecaselaw.com/
The Muqata: Tragic Bus Accident near Elat
Dec 16, 2008 ... MDA (Magen David Adom emergency medical and rescue)received the first report at 3:00 PM of a bus accident, 12 kilometers north of Elat
Comment: This tragedy is ours
Jerusalem Post - Israel
... preventing a bus from rolling over the side of a road into the chasm). Just like airplane crashes, road accidents do not just "happen"; they are caused. ...
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At least 26 die as Israeli bus tumbles into ravine
The Associated Press
In 1999, 16 people died in a bus accident in northern Israel that was similar to Tuesday's crash. Irina Tyurina, a spokeswoman for the Russian Union of Tour ...
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Cedar Rapids Police Respond to Dozens of Accidents
KCRG - Cedar Rapids,IA,USA
The personal injury crash occurred at 2:03 PM at 200 76 Ave SW, in front of Prairie High School when a city bus and a private vehicle collided. ...
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Votran Bus Crushes Bicyclist
WFtv.com - Orlando,FL,USA
The bus driver, Nate Flynt, is a Votran veteran who has a perfect record with the bus service. "Award winner without accidents for two million miles,” said ...
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AFP
24 perish in Israel desert bus crash
AFP
A highway safety official told public radio that 10 accidents had occurred on the same stretch of road over the past seven years, some resulting in ...
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At least 23 Russian tour guides dead in bus crash
eTaiwan News - Taiwan
The statement also said, "Israel copes with traffic accidents on a daily basis and unfortunately not a week goes by without Israeli civilian motorists and ...
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Road accidents kill 5
The Daily Star - Dhaka,Bangladesh
Jatrabari police said Masud was crushed under wheels of a speeding bus at Jatrabari when he was coming to the police headquarters from his residence in ...
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Ynetnews
Police to probe fatal bus crash in south
Ynetnews - Israel
The modern tour bus is equip with a variety of safety systems meant to help the driver avoid accidents, making the mechanical state of the bus imperative to ...
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Israel: 22 dead as bus plunges down ravine
CNN International - USA
JERUSALEM (CNN) -- At least 22 Russian tourists have been killed in one of Israel's deadliest traffic accidents when their bus plunged down a ravine. ...
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ABC News
Russian Tour Bus Crash Kills 24 in Israel
ABC News - USA
The crash, in the desert north of the Israeli Red Sea resort of Eilat, was one of the worst Israeli road accidents for years. Soldiers, police and rescue ...
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At least 26 die as Israeli bus tumbles into ravine - eSearchNet
A bus filled with Russian tour guides crashed through a roadside barrier Tuesday and tumbled down a steep ravine in southern Israel, killing at least 26 people in Israel\'s worst traffic accident.
eSearchNet News - Middleeast News - http://www.esearchnet.com/news/rss/feed/c/middleeast
Comment: This tragedy is ours | Israel | Jerusalem Post
Yesterday's bus crash in the South is a tragedy. Not only for those individuals who lost their lives or "only" their limbs on the short drive from Ovda to Eilat, but for all of us - because we accept traffic accidents as a matter of ...
JPost Front Page Top Stories - http://www.jpost.com/
highway fatality statistics, National Highway Traffic Safety ...
At its peak, there were 54589 people who died in auto accidents in 1972. Fortunately those numbers have been slowly declining over the past twenty years, with the numbers leveling off and hovering at the 40000 mark for the past couple ...
Colorado Law Blog - http://www.coloradolaw.net/blog/
Seattle Car Accident Involving Drunk Driver and Washington State ...
At Bernard Law Group, we handle personal injury lawsuits that are the results of auto accidents in Seattle every day. Call our attorneys at 1-800-418-8282. We are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The Washington State Patrol also ...
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At least 26 Russian tourists dead in Israeli bus accident | Daily ...
Tel Aviv, Dec 16 (DPA) A bus carrying Russian tourists plunged into a gully near the Israeli resort of Eilat Tuesday afternoon, killing at least 26 people and injuring 29, in one of Israel’s worst-ever bus accidents. ...
Daily Times India - http://www.dailytimesindia.com/

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