Saturday, September 19, 2009

9/19/09

Region's Big Four leaders support regional cooperation on transit
Crain's Detroit Business
Oakland County Executive Brooks Patterson said his office has received a rough draft of a regional transit mission statement from John Hertel, ...
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Puget Sound Transit Mode Share In 2040: 5 Percent
Cascadia Prospectus (blog)
According to Chapter One of that document, in our four counties only 2.9 percent of all daily passenger trips were on transit in the last year measured ...
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Speaker: Wisconsin has to move forward on transit improvements
Journal Times
Wisconsin needs to invest in transit if the state wants to move forward, according to Scott Bernstein, . president of the Center for Neighborhood Technology ...
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Soft Sailor
Kepler Mission To Find Earth-like Planets By Studying Planetary ...
Soft Sailor
If you thought that it's easy then please note that the Suns might change their brightness due to natural variation, and if a transit doesn't repeat itself ...
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Clarksville Transit System to buy 5 new buses
Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
By CHRIS SMITH • The Leaf-Chronicle • September 18, 2009 Clarksville Transit System will receive $1.96 million in federal stimulus funds to buy five new ...
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Man fatally shot at Federal Way Transit Center
Seattle Times
A man was fatally shot at the Federal Way Transit Center between Seattle and Tacoma, and two people are in custody. The Associated Press A man was fatally ...
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Anti-government crowd finds new complaint: Public transit service ...
Fort Worth Star Telegram
"I just question whether their transit dollars are not being used wisely," he said. Brady said he walked alongside a veteran from Michigan carrying a "We ...
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Transit cards to introduce no-cash fare payments
MiamiHerald.com
Free EASY Cards will be handed out to Miami-Dade Transit riders beginning Friday as the system moves away from paper transfers and automates fare payments. ...
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Senate OKs boro-raised transit guru to helm MTA
YourNabe.com
By Philip Newman Jay Walder, renowned for his innovations in London's transit system, now envisions some bold changes at the MTA. Walder, who was raised in ...
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Teen killed at Federal Way Transit Center
Seattle Post Intelligencer
One man is suspected of fatally shooting a 19-year-old man Thursday afternoon at the Federal Way Transit Center, but police are still looking for others who ...
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Man killed at Federal Way Transit Center - Federal Way Mirror
A suspect and a male victim were involved in a verbal altercation on the transit center platform, police spokeswoman Cathy Schrock said. The suspect, whom police have not identified, then fired shots at the victim. ...
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Lights & Sirens - » One man booked, another released in deadly ...
By Stacey Mulick
The shooting occurred just before3:30 p.m. at the King County Metro Transit Center, 31621 23rd St. According to witnesses, the victim and gunman were engaged in an argument. The gunman pulled out a weapon and fired. ...
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Kitsap Transit - Navy Yard City bus schedule revised - Bremerton ...
Kitsap Transit is revising schedule times on all #20 Navy Yard City trips traveling from the Bremerton Transportation Center to the West Bremerton Transfer Center to improve on-time performance. Effective September 27, the bus will depart the ... Navy cuts back on jets over Coupeville · WHIDBEY NEWS TIMES Sep 11 2009, 3:15 PM · UPDATED; EDITOR'S NOTE: Class size does matter · RENTON REPORTER Sep 11 2009, 8:55 AM · UPDATED. more local news from around Washington » ...
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Transit and Tories « Resist Rant Relax
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Transit and Tories. September 18, 2009 by resistrantrelax. Thinking on the news, after a bus-ride to work with a large coffee and a couple of Vancouver's free dailies. During the together-portion of our commute, Meg and I chatted about ...
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BART board approves labor agreements | San Francisco Examiner
Almost six months after contract negotiations between BART and its five unions began, transit agency officials on Thursday formally approved contract agreements with two, finally ending a process that at one point reached the brink of ... Terms of Use and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Examiner or its staff. Comment box is limited to 250 words. Commonsense. Sep 17, 2009. Does anyone have any ideas about why Yahoo! news has chosen to ignore the ACORN scandal? ...
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Texans Rile Beltway Over D.C.s Poor Transit News msnbccom
For a Texas congressman, Metro's sesason of struggle reached critical mass at the Tea Party.
Private bus cluster plan remains non-starter as Sheila unwilling ...
Expressindia.com - New Delhi,India
New Delhi Nearly two years after the Delhi government submitted in High Court that it would gradually phase out Blueline buses by corporatising the private ...

San Francisco Chronicle
Limbaugh warns of white Jim Crow
San Francisco Chronicle
Here's the chain of events: In one of probably hundreds of school bus incidents that day, a white student was roughed up by two black students while ...
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Hard times: Spanish court clerks must take the bus
The Associated Press
"We have even had serious incidents of having to flee under gunfire," Rueda said. Alvarez remains unmoved. She described judicial branch civil servants as ...
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Bomb threat empties bus: Kent student jokes about one in backpack
Ravenna Record Courier
Kent City Schools Superintendent Joseph Giancola said while he is disappointed with the incidents, he is pleased they ended peacefully. ...
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Guest view: Putting the brakes on school bullying
Belleville News Democrat
In surveying nearly 12000 students, the bus is noted by more than 70 percent for serious bullying incidents, second to playgrounds. * Bus drivers need a ...
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2 teens charged with hate crime
Annapolis Capital
Among the graffiti, "fun bus" various curse words, a smiley face, and "KKK." Detective Mark Shawkey investigated the incident as a hate crime. ...
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Police warn parents to be vigilant after report of attempted abduction
Fall River Herald News
Medeiros said the incident occurred on Washington Avenue about 3 pm after the boy got off a school bus. Medeiros said the incident was reported to police ...
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School bus drivers give kids Tamiflu
India Today
Dr Ramesh Kumar, New Delhi Municipal Corporation's health officer who is in charge of monitoring swine flu incidents in Delhi's schools, said: "An NDMC team ...
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GarCo emergency drill takes place Saturday
KJCT8.com
It's critical to have good mutual aid and emergency response plans... prior to incidents happening like this." Those are incidents they'll now be ready for. ...
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Edinburg CISD bus driver accused in sex case : News : KGBT 4
By Ryan Wolf
Why did this female bus driver not control her self, this is a 15yr old boy for crying out loud, did she think they would not get caught? Did the kid think wow an older woman yes? now for this incident of lust she will be branded as a ...
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Hard economic times have Spanish summons-servers delivering ...
By Daniel Woolls
Hard times: Spanish court clerks must take the busMADRID — Times are hard in much of Spain, but down south it's getting serious: Court clerks are reduced to forgoing taxis and catching a bus when they have to serve a summons. ... complaint of harassment against him. The Judicial Magistrate First Class Margao has summoned Mickky to appear in court on Jan 12, after the Block Development Officer (BDO) filed a Domestic Incident Report before the magistrate some days ago. ...
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Driver accused of detaining pupil on school bus
Chicago Tribune
AP CHICAGO - Chicago police say a school bus driver has been charged with allegedly kidnapping a kindergarten pupil from the South Side's Hyde Park ...
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Felony charges in bus attack
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The school district, meanwhile, released a memo from the bus company that faulted the driver for neglecting to stop the bus and prevent a second attack ...
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Low-income Ashland residents eligible for free bus tokens
Mail Tribune
By Vickie Aldous The city is offering free bus tokens to low-income residents who were hit hard by a fare increase that accompanied a city-requested ...
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AFP
Bear attacks tourists at bus station in Japan
AFP
TOKYO — A bear was shot dead on Saturday after it attacked nine people, mostly tourists, at a bus station in a mountainous area of central Japan, ...
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Man hurt after falling under bus
News-Leader.com
Springfieldian Brian C. Lindsey, 22, suffered serious injuries when he fell under a bus shortly after 1 am Friday during a visit to Les Bourgeois winery at ...
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Our View: Regional bus study needs real information
Wisconsin Rapids Tribune
The remaining $10000 would be divided among the municipalities that a bus line could potentially connect. The price tag -- a little more than $1500 for ...
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Suspicious Object Found on Walt Disney World Bus
FOXNews
Investigators with the Orange County Sheriff's Office Hazardous Device Unit removed a suspicious object that had been attached to a Walt Disney World bus ...
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Hard times: Spanish court clerks must take the bus
The Associated Press
MADRID — Times are hard in much of Spain, but down south it's getting serious: Court clerks are reduced to foregoing taxis and catching a bus when they have ...
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Bus Driver During Belleville Bullying Incident Done At Current School
Riverfront Times
By Keegan Hamilton in Follow That Story, News ​The man behind the wheel of the Belleville West High School bus during the bullying incident that got seven ...
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Port Authority releases G-20 Downtown bus stop guide
Bizjournals.com
The Port Authority said Friday it expects unanticipated changes and delays during the G-20, which is scheduled Sept. 24 and 25. Buses will serve the same ...
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Proposed Bus Cuts in Detroit
In other words, will he take responsibility for this political move of cutting down bus routes, giving out pink slips to the drivers, and most of all, the chance of people losing their jobs and the potential rise of crime victims?
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School bus driver suspended; accused of having sex with a student ...
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17 killed in Pakistan bus accident | Online Latest News
By IANS
Seventeen people were killed and 55 others wounded Friday in a head-on collision between two passenger buses in eastern Pakistan, a media report said. The.
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9&10 News: Benzie Bus To Receive Over 1 Million Dollars
A big boost from the Federal Government could mean more jobs coming to Benzie County. The Benzie Transportation Authority in Honor will receive more then 1 million dollars for help build a new facility and help improve how people get ...
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Car hits school bus in North Augusta
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News & Notes: Bus Routes Set to Change; Robber Sentenced ...
Sep 18, 2009 ... The Berkshires online guide to events, news and Berkshire County community information.
Suspicious Object Found on Walt Disney World Bus - Local News ...
Sep 18, 2009 ... Suspicious Object Found on Walt Disney World Bus, Investigators with the Orange County Sheriff's Office Hazardous Device Unit removed a ...
Light rail or bus rapid transit for Castroville-to-Monterey ...
Examiner.com
Monterey County officials will decide next week which transit mode – Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) or Light Rail Transit (LRT) – will serve Castroville, Marina, ...
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Man jailed in Federal Way Transit Center killing
TheNewsTribune.com
Police believe the man gunned down 19-year-old De'Von Lamont Winston-Parks about 3:30 pm Thursday on the transit center's main platform as dozens of people ...
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Town and Country Transit 'headed in the right direction'
Leader Times
Town and Country's legal name is Mid-County Transit Authority. Formed in 1979, MCTA began operating under Town and Country Transit on March 7, 2002, ...
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Editorial: Moving ahead on metro transit needs
Minneapolis Star Tribune
It's critical that the Southwest line receive the backing of the feds and the County Transit Improvement Board, which would pay 30 percent, as well as the ...
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Transit money available: premier
Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA — Dalton McGuinty has given the clearest indication yet that the province will support Ottawa's multibillion-dollar transit project, ...
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Worries over transit as Afghani immigrant admits al-Qaida ties
Newsday
New York City police are also reportedly concerned about an alleged plot by associates of Zazi to target mass transit. Zazi's father, Mohammed, also was ...
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Metro Turns To Suicide Prevention Groups for Help
Washington Post
Station managers, Metro Transit Police and other Metro staff would be trained to recognize someone in distress. And signs providing information about ...
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Tucker Max's Campaign of Hate Against Chicago's Transit System ...
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The Mad AssHatter Himself, Tucker Max, went to war with Chicago's Transit System over a series of advertisements for his film, I Hope They Serve Rosé On Fire Island, or whatever it's called. Guess who won? The ads were poetic ditties of ...
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John McCain Takes Aim at Sound Transit 2 - Seattle News - The ...
Seattle News. John McCain Takes Aim at Sound Transit 2. Seattle Weekly news, blogs, music, movies, restaurants and the arts.
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Transit Disoriented Development | Planetizen
By Nate Berg
The other is Personal Rapid Transit. ” Read the full article, written by Jerry Schneider. Welcome to Planetizen. It appears you found us through a web search. Consider bookmarking Planetizen -- the leading source of news for urban ...
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Administration Officials Wrap Up Sustainable Communities Tour with ...
Denver's Union Station is a hub of the Regional Transportation District's multi-year, multi-billion dollar FasTracks transit network, which is designed to greatly expand access to light-rail and other forms of public transportation. ... Writers Wanted. Help NewsBlaze provide daily news, including top stories, Home and Garden, Technology, The Environment and more. NewsBlaze Writer. Relevant Sites: ...
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India intensifies drive against human trafficking: Minister
By Ians
Related News. US sec'y of state Clinton: Human trafficking flourishes in shadows of economic crisis. September 14th, 2009 Clinton urges crackdown on human traffickingVIENNA — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warns that human ... "India is a source, destination, and transit country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labour and commercial sexual exploitation," said the 2009 Trafficking in Persons Report released by Secretary of ...
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