Sunday, March 7, 2010

Shocking! Transit cops use their Tasers less
The Province
By Frank Luba, The ProvinceMarch 7, 2010 Since deciding in 2008 to voluntarily change their rules on use of Tasers, transit police have used the stun guns ...
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San Francisco activists offer ways to aid Muni
San Francisco Chronicle
"The focus is to reverse the downward spiral of Muni," said Gerald Cauthen, a transit activist and former Municipal Railway engineer who helped organize the ...
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LAist (blog)
Reminder: Street Closures, Parking Restrictions, and Transit Changes Today in ...
LAist (blog)
... remind yourself of the street and sidewalk closures, parking restrictions, and changes to public transit now in effect to accommodate the awards show. ...
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Transit bosses betting ACE will draw crowd
Las Vegas Review - Journal
Regional Transportation Commission General Manager Jacob Snow discusses the agency's ACE express transit line Thursday at a downtown ticket station. ...
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Public meeting to discuss regional transit authority
Green Bay Press Gazette
DE PERE — Advocates of a regional transit authority will hold a public informational meeting Tuesday to discuss the issue. The meeting is scheduled for 5:30 ...
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OUR VIEW | Some Clarification on Kitsap Transit's Chargers
Kitsap Sun
Earlier this week, we took issue with the Kitsap Transit board of directors' vote to spend federal grant money on electric car chargers for the Harper ...
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Pentagon entrance to reopen Monday
Washington Post
The entrance, adjacent to the Pentagon Metro Transit Center, will open for normal operations at 5 am Monday, according to the Pentagon Force Protection ...
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CTA gets $1.5M federal grant for electrified vehicle stalls
Chicago Sun-Times
“As more and more people are choosing to leave their cars at home for their daily commute, helping ensure that public transit is not only affordable and ...
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Transit bosses betting ACE will draw crowd | The Vegas Geek. Las ...
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Transit bosses betting ACE will draw crowd. Submitted by Las Vegas News Feeds on March 7, 2010 – 9:26 amNo Comment. What is sleek, quiet, convenient and will soon zip commuters and tourists in a state-of-the-art sort of way from the ...
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State To Get $4M In Transit Grants - Oklahoma City News Story ...
TULSA, Okla. -- US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says Oklahoma is getting about $4 million in federal economic stimulus money to pay for transit projects. Saturday, March 6, 2010.
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NJ Transit Riders Hit With 25 Percent Fare Hikes, Service Cuts ...
By News Feeds
Commuters taking New Jersey Transit may have to shell out more money soon. The transit agency announced Friday that bus and train riders will have to.
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NV to get millions in federal funds for transit projects - KTNV ...
Action News wants to make Las Vegas a better place to live. We do so through our You Ask. We Investigate unit, Contact 13 investigations and by covering breaking news throughout the Valley. ... Las Vegas, NV- Nevada is getting a big check from the federal government to be spent on transit projects around the state. Officials say a big part of the funds will be used to purchase some much needed equipment. The Silver State will receive $2.1 million and they plan on spending ...
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The Chronicle-Telegram - Lorain County's leading news source
By Chronicle-Telegram Staff
Other Northeast Ohio recipients include more than $12.5 million for the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority and more than $9 million for the Ohio Department of Transportation, a portion of which will be allocated to Medina ...
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Survey finds Montrealers driving less, using more public transit ...
News. Survey finds Montrealers driving less, using more public transit. More cars are entering the city, however. María Flores | Published: 3/2/10 ...
How Safe are our Children | Accident Attorney Los Angeles
By Jimi
Every year there are more school bus accidents in the Orange County areas including Marina Del Rey, Los Angeles, Long Beach and Huntington Beach. How safe are our children? These accidents can be caused for a number of reasons such as ...
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incidents and accidents - Assault with a Deadly Reptile
By Cristin Terrill
It was the most bizarre thing I've seen since that time I was in a bus accident and a legless bicycler hit a pedestrian and the guy sitting next to me on the bus stole a Vespa right in front of me, all in the course of about five ...
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Seven of family killed in Haryana accident
Seven members of a family were killed early Sunday when their car collided with a bus on the Ambala-Hisar road in Haryana, police said. The victims included two men, two women and three children. The accident took place near Naggal town ...
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Causes of Bicycle Accidents and Compensation | Accident Lawyer
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The vast majority of bicycle accidents are low-speed, single participant accidents, and these rarely produce more than just a scratch or scrape. However, some. ... •Did a car, truck or bus driver make a left turn in front of the bicycle rider or merge into path of the bicyclist? •Did a car overtake the bike and not allow space to safely pass, causing the rider to fall off the bike? •Did the driver of the car fail to yield the right of way to the bicyclist? ...
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Claiming Compensation After a Motorcycle Accident | Phoenix Blogs
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Every year there's bags of motorcycle accidents acquired by addition agent may it be a bus, car or lorry. These accidents usually absorb the added disciplinarian not seeing you and affairs out of junctions and you can't do annihilation ...
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Champion cyclist dies in accident Prospect man, 21, killed as bike collides ...
Tasmania Examiner
The man died after his bicycle collided with a bus on Cethana Road near Moina yesterday. It is the second fatal accident in the Cradle Mountain region in ...
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Daily Mail
Revealed: The shocking truth about Tasers
Daily Mail
By Jason Bennetto The smartly dressed sales executive travelling on the number 96 bus across Leeds didn't notice his body descending into a state of severe ...
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Bus driver helps with gun shoot victims: newspaper
People's Daily Online
Chicago Tribune quoted a city fire department spokesman as saying that the identified bus driver had called the department for aiding one of the two persons ...
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Sandridge crossing point is proving a hazard for motorists
Advertiser 24
The feature, which has a slightly higher edge than the rest of the kerb, is designed to create a safer High Street crossing point for users of the bus stop ...
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Dan Sheridan: On the Money
Aspen Times
The day the story hit The Aspen Times, Sheridan was greeted with an ovation from his fellow passengers on a RFTA bus. In Carl's Pharmacy, a box of ...
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How safe is travel by bus/train in Canada for single women ...
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CanProf. 06. Mar, 2010. Very safe. Is there a 100% guarantee? Nope, but that's life. Crime on the train is almost unheard of and a couple of well-publicized incidents on the bus recently are notable because of their freakishness. ...
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Maryland Speed Cameras: Maryland Lawmakers Want School Buses to ...
By StopBigBrotherMD@gmail.com
We discovered another report which stated that in the entire US, every year out of the 25million students who take school buses there are an average of 15 "pedestrian fatalities at school bus stops". This figure is extremely tragic, but it apparently includes fatalities from students being hit by buses rather than cars and other accidents which were not the result of passing incidents, and it is less than 2% of traffic fatalities involving school children. ...
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CoolFwdPic: Revealed: The shocking truth about Tasers
By coolfwdpic
I was in a diabetic coma, and all they were bothered about was whether I was going to blow up an empty, stationary bus. 'I showed no aggression - I was unconscious and unable to respond to their demands. I think they just saw it as an .... This compares with 24 incidents in the Met during the same period. North Wales Police Tasered three 16-year-olds in the first eight months of 2009; the force will reveal only that the incidents involved boys 'threatening self harm'. ...
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Rusty's Skewed News Views: UK Pupils Logged on 'Hate Register'
By Rusty the Boddington's Badger
Bogbrush, formerly employed by the Renta-Thug security agency – received a police caution in 2009 - and an on-the-spot fine of £30 - for harassing a mock turtle at a bus stop. In another incident last year a seven-year-old girl, ...
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Travel advices for Bulgaria | Hotsohbet.Net
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Paramedics hail 'hero' boy from Arizona bus crash | AP Nation ...
06, 2010 - A bilingual 4th grader hurt in an Arizona bus accident that ... from choking on a Puyallup Fair corn dog and a pair of school bus incidents. ...
Peace ain't passe: A Dusty Ensemble
By Indrajit Dutta
The intense fog deserves more than a line .It used to be so foggy that trees a metre away could not be seen. A mark it did make. We saw the sun come out at 3'o' clock in the afternoon on occasions. It seemed as if the sun set sail for ... We boarded a bus to Rohtak and then caught another bus to Delhi. The outskirts of Delhi seemed as drab as any Harayanvi village. The town planning in the villages hasn't changed much by the look of it. They seem to have carried on in the ...
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4 killed, 8 injured in Delhi bus accident
Home/ sep. background blue line, Monday 22nd February, 2010 4 killed, 8 injured in Delhi bus accident. IANS Sunday 21st February, 2010 ...
Four children drown in pit in Delhi | The Info Sage News Updates
New Delhi, Mar 6 (ANI): Four children drowned after falling into a pit believed to be dug by ... Blue Line bus crushes 6 persons to death in Delhi (Lead:) ...
RADIOTHERAPY DELHI IND
96 people have been killed in New Delhi, capital city of India by blue line buses in last 8 months, "Youth for Justice" is organising a candle. ...
Bus Travel In India: An Easy Affair Now
Ranging from Metropolitan transport corporation buses to Blue line buses, ... Jaipur to Delhi, Mumbai to Hyderabad etc. have frequent buses shuttling ...
Bus company probed after I-10 crash kills 6
Arizona Republic
Pantuso maintains that illegal operators are to blame for as many as half of the fatal bus accidents. The Tierra Santa bus not only went through several ...
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Bus company probed after I-10 crash kills 6
By Robert Anglen
"We have been urging them to move faster." Pantuso maintains that illegal operators are to blame for as many as half of the fatal bus accidents. The Tierra Santa bus not only went through several state checkpoints en route to California ...
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Tour Bus Company Settles With Former Triathlete Left Paraplegic ...
By David Mittleman
Hawaii—a tour bus company has agreed to resolve a lawsuit stemming from a bicycle accident that left a former tri-athlete a paraplegic. John Henderson, 35, participated in several Ironman...
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Lawyers For Personal Injury » Vehicle Accidents And The Role of ...
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Vehicle accidents can include 18 wheeler accidents, bus accidents, truck accidents, and passenger cars and vans. Go to personal injury lawyers for more information. Young people and the elderly cause a disproportionately high number of ...
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Bus company probed after I-10 crash kills 6
Bus company probed after I-10 crash kills 6, 6 killed, 16 hurt. Westbound I-10 reopened. {snl} Photos | Injuries from head trauma to broken spines.
Terrell Tribune Online Edition > News > Bus accident sends three ...
School bus accidents often make headlines, but statistics show buses to be “one of the safest forms of transportation in the United States,” according to ...
9 still critical after bus crash kills 6 on Arizona freeway ...
Officials said Saturday that the bus driver is among nine who remain in critical condition.
Md. gets $26 million for transit upgrades
Baltimore Sun
By Michael Dresser | michael.dresser@baltsun.com Maryland will receive an additional $26.3 million in federal stimulus money for transit improvements ...
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Police complaints commissioner to review transit police Taser incident
The Province
By Frank Luba, The ProvinceMarch 6, 2010 10:03 AM Tasering by transit police has almost vanished since the force voluntarily changed its policy from using ...
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Feds spend stimulus money on Mass. transit funding
Boston Globe
BOSTON—Massachusetts is receiving over $70 million worth of federal stimulus funding for transit programs across the state. ...
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NJ Transit increases could start May 1
Philadelphia Inquirer
By Paul Nussbaum and Edward Colimore That's the future for NJ Transit riders, as the agency yesterday announced 25 percent fare hikes and widespread service ...
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Middletown nets $281K in transit funds
Middletown Journal
By Ryan Gauthier, Staff Writer 2:04 AM Saturday, March 6, 2010 MIDDLETOWN — The city has been given nearly $281000 in federal transit funding as part of the ...
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Low-income fare after upgrade OK with transit
Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg Transit now likes the idea of low-income discounts -- but doesn't think they should be offered until new fare-collection systems are installed on ...
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Muni, Statewide Transit Gets Help From Mark Leno
NBC Bay Area
By JACKSON WEST Over the last few years, state funding for transit has been raided in efforts to balance the state's budget, leaving agencies like Alameda ...
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Out in the cold: Money sought to build Bad River Transit garage
Duluth News Tribune
Every 10 days Bad River Transit mechanic Lawrence Wherley lies between the cold metal frame of a bus and the frozen ground to change oil. ...
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Connecticut Receives $238000 In Funds For Transit Projects
Hartford Courant
By DON STACOM HARTFORD — - When federal officials handed out $600 million for transit projects across the nation Friday Connecticut pulled in just $238000. ...
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Transit News: NJ Transit commuter are bracing for service and fare ...
By Native New Yorker
NJ Transit bus, rail and light rail commuter are bracing for a 25 percent fare increase and service cuts to help close a $300 million budget gap. The changes would take effect May 1. ...
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Metrobus Transit News Bulletins: Now hiring!
By Metrobus Information Services
skip to main | skip to sidebar. Metrobus Transit News Bulletins. Saturday, March 6, 2010. Now hiring! Looking to start a rewarding career in the public transit industry? We're soliciting applications for our Transit Operator Training ...
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Toronto looks to Sweden's privatized transit - News - METRO Magazine
After several mayoral candidates indicate that, if elected, they would look at privatizing the Toronto Transit Commission to cut costs, a local report examines Sweden's privatized transit system.
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Lawmakers give and take from Bay Area public transit operators ...
By By Denis Cuff and Janis Mara Contra Costa Times
Bay Area transit operators to lose gas sales tax, but get back $108 million in state funds.
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NT Transit Fare HikeHearing Set for Secaucus | eSecaucus.com ...
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Secaucus residents who commute to New York (or anywhere via NJ Transit) will have a chance to vent their feelings and get more information from the transit. ... Who writes. eSecaucus · Jason Bernstein. © 2010 eSecaucus.com – Secaucus (NJ) News and Information | Powered by WordPress | Legal Info. 571dffss.
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