Saturday, August 29, 2009

08/29/09

Who Causes Cyclists' Deaths?
New York Times
I, too, can't imagine who is thinking that cyclists are at fault in most accidents. Drivers, even bus drivers and other public transit officials, ...
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Ala. Guard honored for La. church bus wreck rescue
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
At least two people were killed and 23 injured in the accident. Sgt. Jeremy Burkett of Troy has seen plenty of accidents in his civilian job as a state ...
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St. Lucie students will shine at bus stops with safety lights ...
Vero Beach Press-Journal (subscription)
“They're trying to prevent accidents.” James Clowney takes his great-grandson Matthew to his bus stop every morning. “We won't let him walk because it isn't ...
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Review: Even death looks ho-hum in 'The Final Destination"
San Jose Mercury News
A quartet of college kids go and one "sees" a crowd-killing accident before it happens and convinces his friends to leave. ...
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New York Post
The Five Best 'Final Destination' Kills
New York Post
Those lucky few are then stalked by death, and killed one by one, in a series of "freak accidents." In my opinion, "FD 2" featured the best installment ...
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Several hurt in two school bus crashes
KSN-TV
Police responded to another school bus accident in northern Sedgwick County at 85 th St. N. and Ridge Rd. just after 7 am A Valley Center school bus had ...
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Texting to an Accident
InjuryBoard.com
A bus driver in San Antonio rear-ended another vehicle after texting. A woman in Britain sent twenty text messages in the minutes before colliding with ...
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LTFRB deploys night teams vs reckless bus drivers
GMA news.tv
Following a series of bus-related accidents in past weeks, the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has sent out night patrol teams ...
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Cell Phones Banned for Bus Workers
The Ledger
Lourie Johnson, a bus operator, talks recently with a dispatcher at the control center in Lakeland next to a sign that warns against cell phone use. ...
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Staten Island Man Injured in Upstate New York Car Accident ...
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Philippine Breaking News
By chris
THE Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC) is considering the possibility of implementing a monthly salary scheme for bus drivers instead of the current “commissioned-based” pay they are receiving from their operators. Transportation Secretary Leandro Mendoza said the scheme if implemented would help reduce traffic-related accidents, especially those caused by overspeeding as drivers raced against each other to have more passengers to earn more commission ...
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Blue Moon Mama: Big Yellow School Bus
By Blue Moon Mama
It didn't help that I scared him with some warnings about staying away from the bus when it was moving and never, ever fooling around near the bus wheels. I've been haunted by some bad accidents that I've read about in the past ...
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2 Buses collide near Port Shepstone | Road Safety
By jonckie
2 Buses collide near Port Shepstone. Posted by jonckie in August 28th 2009. bus-accident. This evening at around 19h00 Netcare 911 and the emergency services rushed to the scene of an accident in the Port Shepstone area. ...
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KissJet » Blog Archive » Three dead ones and 22 injured after bus ...
In Hong Kong today in a bus accident three humans were killed and further 22 persons were injured. As the Chinese press agency " Xinhua" reported, in the bus coworkers of the airport were, who were after their nightshift on the way home ...
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Mass Transit Comes to Madison
Shore Publishing
The train station was a busy place in the early part of the 20 th century. People, goods, and mail were delivered several times a day. ...
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Six hurt after Calgary bus crashes into transit train platform
Edmonton Sun
By SUN MEDIA Calgary -- Six people were injured yesterday morning after the Calgary bus they were riding plowed into a downtown LRT platform. ...
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Ndebele welcomes BRT victory
News24
Johannesburg - Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele was pleased that taxi operators failed to stop the launch of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system in ...
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Antioch calls meet on downtown transit
Waukegan News Sun
The Regional Transit Authority is funding 80 percent of a $100000 study of how mass transit can tie into downtown revitalization. Consultants for the study ...
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Westmoreland transit to Pittsburgh may be interrupted during G-20 ...
Tribune Review
Officials of the Westmoreland County Transit Authority, which operates four daily routes into Pittsburgh with about a dozen buses, are considering options ...
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Panel: BR has transit 'bones'
2TheAdvocate
AP Business By CHAD CALDER Baton Rouge may not be synonymous with public transit today, but the city has the basic structure necessary to support a modest ...
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Kiepper, credited with making Houston's buses run, dies
Houston Chronicle
By CAROLYN FEIBEL HOUSTON CHRONICLE Alan Kiepper, a renowned mass transit leader who turned around Houston's struggling bus system in the 1980s, ...
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Alan Kiepper, a renowned mass transit leader who turned around ...
Houston Chronicle
Kiepper was general manager of the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County from 1982 to 1989. He lost two battles to build a rail system, ...
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Broken bones suffered when Calgary transit bus collides with LRT ...
The Canadian Press
CALGARY — An eyewitness says it sounded like a plane striking a building when a transit bus slammed into a light-rail transit station platform in Calgary. ...
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Wired News
Resurgent Autolux's Triumphant Transit Shreds Sonic Envelope
Wired News
Autolux hides behind its mind-warping art-rock on its highly anticipated sophomore effort Transit Transit, due in 2010. Serving up a kinetic synesthesia of ...
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Razorback Transit Adds More Stops - Local News Story - KHBS NW ...
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- Students at the University of Arkansas have more options with their commutes. Friday, August 28, 2009.
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Couple of transit bus windows shattered - News - News1130 - ALL ...
Couple of transit bus windows shattered. Surrey Mounties say no one was hurt. Jim Goddard SURREY (NEWS1130) 2009-08-28 19:20. SURREY (NEWS1130) - Surrey Mounties are looking for suspects after a transit bus travelling north on 144th ...
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Elk Grove News.net: Elk Grove Bus Route Changes -- A Failure To ...
By EG
It is no secret that mass transit is not a money maker for any city. This is not news. The council knew this going in so that now the money is gone, our riders, even our disabled riders, will have to suffer. But is it? ...
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Almanac : Report forecasts Bay Area growth
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Who Owns Transit Data CBS News
Despite Prevailing Movement Toward Openness, Some Transit Agencies Still Keep Data Under Lock and Key.

Atlanta Public schools seeking to prevent bus hi-jackings
Atlanta Journal Constitution
By Mashaun D. Simon Avoiding any future school bus hijackings is one of many priorities of officials with the Atlanta Public Schools system. ...
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Detroit workers talk of striking
Detroit Free Press
BY NAOMI R. PATTON The jobs of 113 Detroit bus drivers were spared Friday, but hundreds of other city employees were laid off. Detroit Mayor Dave Bing's ...
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MTA gets low marks for bus service in survey
Los Angeles Times
The Bus Riders Union says riders gave the agency a D in overall service, a finding that conflicts with the results of the MTA's survey in June. ...
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College Hotline: To the bus for budget-busting at Cal, SJSU
San Jose Mercury News
By Jon Wilner Instead of taking a chartered flight, San Jose State and Cal will bus to football games in Southern California this season: the Spartans for ...
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Which DC to New York Bus Service is the Best?
Washington Post
What's the best Washington to New York bus service? We hopped on 10 coaches from 10 different lines and ranked them based on details such as as pickup and ...
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Riley honors Alabama soldiers in Louisiana bus rescue
Montgomery Advertiser
The soldiers, who are headed to Iraq in January, had just received training in how to right an overturned vehicle when a tire blew out on the church bus in ...
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New York Times
Seniors: 'Bring Back Bus Stop!'
New York Times
The next B25 and B26 bus stop heading Downtown is between Washington and Waverly Avenues, about two blocks away. And while two blocks may not sound like ...
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205 city employees to be laid off; bus drivers spared
Detroit Free Press
By SUZETTE HACKNEY Detroit Mayor Dave Bing said this morning that the 113 bus drivers scheduled to be laid off today will not lose their jobs. ...
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Examiner.com
Kaufman County bus drivers have near misses
Examiner.com
A school bus is very big and cannot stop instantly, so please refrain from pulling out in front of them unless you have plenty of room to do so. ...
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Offbeat News » Blog Archive » Top dog Asashoryu refuses bus amid ...
By Zan
Offbeat News - Weird and Wacky News from around the globe, updated many times daily! Funny, Bizzare, and Strange News Blog.
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Naked man hijacks a school bus | News | theGrio
By theGrio
ATLANTA (AP) -- Corey Turner was mowing the lawn of a southeast Atlanta church Thursday when he did a double-take: A public school bus that was hijacked by a shirtless man was careening down a nearby road at around 25 mph, and screaming ...
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Morning Chase Leads to School Bus Crash : News : WACH
By Janet Parker
The SC Highway Patrol is investigating an early morning accident involving a school bus.
WACH - WACH News - http://www.midlandsconnect.com/news/
The Wheels on the Bus go Round and Round
By Steve Cypher
One group of students in Matteson Illinois will be riding to school this year in a diesel hybrid school bus.
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Welsh Icons - News: Velindre Bus Service
By Welsh Icons - News
... residents on the new bus service. Also pictured are Cabinet Member for the Environment Sandra Miller, local councillor Ian James and Bev Fowles from South Wales Transport. Posted by Welsh Icons - News at 8/28/2009 08:57:00 PM ...
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Obama team hits Denver on bus tour
Denver Post
School security officers said no incidents between the two groups were reported and everyone remained peaceful. The Organizing for America bus started its ...
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Bus Mishaps Mark First Weeks Of School
KOAT.com
A bus mishap Friday makes the third transportation mixup for Albuquerque Public School students this week. The first incident involved a first grader from ...
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Attempted citizen's arrest ends with ticket
Transportation Director Mickey Bayens said the bus driver involved in Monday's incident reported he had his yellow caution lights on, signaling he was going to stop. The bus driver also reported that the pickup came around the bus so ...
News - http://www.coastalcourier.com/news/section/2/
Stella Matutina - 124. A Countess Below Stairs by Eva Ibbotson
I cried pretty hard the first time; in fact, this book sparked one of my two Embarrassing Bus Crying Incidents Which Everyone Sitting Near Me Completely Ignored. (The other happened during CORAMBIS). I could not stop bawling. ...
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Not exactly drunk dialing: Utah Highway Patrol, bars offer ...
By Bureau News
... Missouri's meth problemMissouri had far and away the most meth lab busts and dump site discoveries in the first quarter of 2009, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol. Here are the top 10 states for the number of meth incidents : 1. ... April 30th, 2009 CHP: US driver in tour bus crash among 5 deadSOLEDAD, Calif. — Authorities say the America driver of a bus carrying French tourists was among the five people killed when the vehicle overturned on a highway ...
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