Sunday, March 14, 2010

Houston Chronicle
Outgoing Metro chief calls for Houston 'transit ethic'
Houston Chronicle
By CAROLYN FEIBEL “People don't realize that what you're doing is taking an automobile city and trying to retrofit it for transit,” Metro Chairman David ...
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Examiner.com
Milwaukee County Citizens Fill Veterans Park to Support Regional Transit Authority
Examiner.com
Milwaukee County Supervisor Chris Larson reported that one house of the legislature may not even vote on the revised transit bill now awaiting action, ...
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Pierce Transit: Bus services interrupted, free rides to Dome
TheNewsTribune.com
Routes 53 and 53A: No service on Pacific Avenue between South 21st and South 38th streets, and no service between the Tacoma Mall Transit Center and South ...
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Four new bus shelters on the way for transit riders
MiamiHerald.com
``It is important to provide shelter during the rain season for El Portal residents utilizing Miami-Dade Transit,'' he said. The current benches are fairly ...
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KMOX.com
Religious group to push for transit funds in St. Louis County
KMOX.com
After the rally, MCU and Greater St. Louis Transit Alliance members boarded metrolink trains to spread the word about their initiative.
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Rail transit drive revives
Patriot-News
"We're behind many other counties in the way of [public] transit." The commissioners have blocked commuter rail from the county, arguing that projected ...
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Transit cop arrested for rape
Village Voice
By Julia in Crime, Julia, NYPD ​Police are announcing the arrest of 29-year-old transit cop Shawqi Ahmed for raping an 18-year-old girl in Brooklyn last ...
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KCBS
Women More Afraid to Use Mass Transit
KCBS
While two apparently random stabbings on Muni have dominated the headlines, there are broader concerns about transit safety, particularly for women, ...
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Malloy cuts the ribbon on 'No. 1 transit priority'
The Hour
1 transit priority" and was happy to be able to see a portion get completed on "my last day of mayoralty." "This is an important part of the Urban ...
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ST. LOUIS > Backers of county transit tax hold rally
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Supporters of a half-cent sales tax in St. Louis County for public transit held a rally downtown Saturday morning. Afterward, about 100 rally participants ...
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A village within a camp
By editor
Those kept in transit huts say, they would be soon pushed up for resettlement while those in security village have to wait for some longer time before UNHCR forwards the case to resettling countries. Currently, Tashi Sherpa, T. B. ...
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News links of interest via THE BACK FENCE 12-06-2009 ...
By thewestcorridorbackfence
Include bus rapid transit on rapid transit maps? Most large transit agencies have a map that shows just their rapid transit services, which are usually rail. One good test of how an agency thinks about bus rapid transit is whether they ...
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Philadelphia Front Page News (FPN): Now Meet Your Local Eco-Consultant
By DLighte
Kids News. Public Transit Services News. A Very Good Cultural Identity Read. Healthy Earth, Environmental Dangers, Lawn, Gardening, and Ground Maintenance (doing your own part energy conserving, mowing, cutting, planting, painting, ...
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Kailali Fiasco Fits The Formula of Nepal Maoists
On Saturday the Maoists shut down all public transit in the southwest, and on Sunday they called a general strike for the entire country. Major highways were empty of traffic, and in Kathmandu and other cities all major business districts were shuttered. Maoists cadres burned tires at major intersections in ... 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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The News-Gazette.com: 'Homegrown' for the holidays: Gifts from ...
Wood also makes token wine glass markers and sells transit tokens from New York City, because he hasn't been able to get the license necessary to include them in a necklace. HANGER 3 necklaces have been featured in Real Simple magazine, ...
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'Team effort' pays off for city Transit System - LeaderHerald.com ...
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Placer County transit officials to pick new expressway route ...
Placer County transit officials are getting ready to choose a final route alignment for a new area expressway, the proposed Placer Parkway. ...
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SEPTA gets Google Transit ; bad budget news | Plan Philly ...
Google Transit will be coming to SEPTA's bus fleet next week, SEPTA general manager Joe Casey said at the authority's monthly board meeting on Nov. 19. ...
Telangana protest hits Hyderabad
Times of India
The day-long shutdown on Monday last had paralysed life in the region and was marred by sporadic incidents of violence. With protesters targeting public and ...
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Daijiworld.com
Kasargod: High Alert in District, Additional Police Contingents Deployed
Daijiworld.com
None was injured in the incidents, but the people waiting in the local bus stand for these buses, faced problems. A private bus moving between Chevar and ...
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VfB Stuttgart crisis deepens as fans turn angry and Babbel faces exit
Monsters and Critics.com
Bild quoted Babbel as naming the incidents around the team bus ahead of the game 'scary.' Club boss Dieter Hundt back Babbel in mid-week but has also said ...
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guardian.co.uk
God has chosen her to lead our country
guardian.co.uk
The incidents of overshoot are copious. Palin's disastrous interview with Katie Couric of CBS News, where she fluffed a question about which newspapers she ...
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DCist.com
Kids These Days, Bloomingdale Edition
DCist.com
As I recall, there was an incident some months ago in which a man was beaten while waiting for at the bus stop at First St and Florida Ave NW, ...
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Texting moves to top of teen driving perils
Daytona Beach News-Journal
"Certainly, it's come to that because we've had a lot of incidents," said Lee Bowman, longtime National Safety Council instructor. That's putting it mildly. ...
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Security beefed up in Kovai
Express Buzz
Further, a team of 100 armed police are kept ready “for quick response” in case of any untoward incidents. In the six railway stations in Coimbatore, ...
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Stop having sex in public
ntnews.com.au
The plea follows a schoolteacher in charge of a bus full of teenage schoolboys seeing a couple "going at it hell for leather, in the canine style". ...
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Admission date extended
The News International
The lawyers stayed away from courts to express solidarity with the bereaved families and condemned the terror incidents and demanded the government ...
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Parking lot speed bumps would protect against pedestrian peril
Tampa Tribune
It just reinforced my belief that speed bumps would resolve many of the frightening incidents that occur in all parking lots. Ron Rae, a regular columnist ...
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Google Blogs Alert for: bus incidents

Funny Taste: Just one of those days - FORGOT MY PASSWORD!
By Naqiuddin Zairi
I was hoping that the sillyness of the day ended with the bus incidents, but it did not. When I came back from my lab, I tried to open my YM and yahoo mail account like normal. But today is just one of those days, so I decided to forget ...
Funny Taste - http://naqiuddinzairi.blogspot.com/
Top Reasons To Choose Freelance Workers Insurance ...
By chase
You should have to keep record of bus driver's name, bus/coach registration number, bus ticket number, bus route number and written statement regarding public transport accident. Other accident at work claims can also arise due to slipping incidents caused by spillages, slippery surfaces or wearing footwear that is unsuitable for the job, and also due to tripping over items lying on the floor that cause a hazard. Because of the unfairness of california workers comp laws, ...
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Philly school's racial tensions lead to fights - US Message Board ...
By Dogbert
It serves mostly low-income neighborhoods south of downtown and has been labeled "persistently dangerous" by the state, based on the number of safety incidents reported. Wei Chen, president of the school's Chinese-American Student Association, ... "New reports on Sarah Palin's 'Going Rogue' bus tour. They say she's been traveling on private planes to various stops and then just hops in the bus at the local town. So, let's see what you got. You have Sarah Palin, ...
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The Katalina Chronicles: Peace Corps Guatemala: Confessions of a ...
By Kate
Last week during the visit of my friend Rebecca, I experienced more chicken bus (“camioneta”) drama than I had during my first seven months here. One local at my site even joked that I was cursed given the number of incidents. ...
The Katalina Chronicles: Peace... - http://katalinachronicles.blogspot.com/
Suspicious vehicle reported at South Elementary School ...
Additionally, all school bus authorities are aware and advised of the incidents, as well as the surrounding areas' police forces. Limerick Police strongly suggests area residents are on the look-out for the suspected individual, ...
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Images of bus incident in Damascus suggest terror attack but ...
Images of bus incident in Damascus suggest terror attack, but Syrian official.
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FRONTLINE: Tehran Bureau: Selected Headlines | PBS
"There was no terrorism factor behind the bus incident," Syrian Interior Minister Said Sammour said. "The bus entered a petrol station to have one of its ...
Dakshina Kannada District Police: Daily Crime Incidents for ...
Daily Crime Incidents for November 23, 2009. ... On 22/11/2009 at 1300 hrs near Kankanady at Mangalore one driver of Bus bearing Reg. No. ...
LiveLeak.com - Officials: Syria Bus Explosion 'An Accident'
"There was no terrorism factor behind the bus incident," he said. "The bus entered a petrol station to have one of its burst tyres inflated and the tyre ...
Depot money might be used to save transit
Chronicle-Telegram
Betty Sutton will work to divert unused federal stimulus money from the train station restoration project in Elyria to assist Lorain County Transit, ...
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Public Transit Projects will support and create hundreds of thousands of jobs
The Hill
The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) has just completed a survey of public transit systems nationwide which identified more than $15 ...
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Beware of computer thefts on mass transit
MiamiHerald.com
I contacted Frank Moran from Miami-Dade Transit for information. He was kind enough to furnish me with the following: The department has an eye out for ...
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The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Train delays between NJ and NY expected after Portal Bridge problems
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
NJ Transit spokesman Dan Stessel said Amtrak was unable to close the Portal Bridge over the Hackensack River at 11:40 am Stessel said while the bridge is ...
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Wausau transit union agrees to delay pay raises
WAOW
by Bryon Graff WAUSAU (WAOW) - The Wausau transit union follows suit with the rest of the city unions and agrees to hold off on pay raises. ...
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Suburban transit providers say their savings will bail out others
Jordan Independent
The Metropolitan Council, which doles out transit dollars across the metro area, is trying to plug a two-year funding deficit without slashing routes or ...
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Developers to buy transit passes for condo purchasers
National Post
Developers building condos on Toronto transit lines will now have to buy every unit a TTC Metropass for a year in order to obtain condominium approval from ...
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Plan looks at transit needs in the future
Green Bay Press Gazette
The agency expects passenger bus and train transit demand to rise in part because of increasing gasoline costs. Bike and foot paths also will become more ...
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WSAU
Wausau's transit union agrees to wage concessions
WSAU
(WSAU) – The union representing Wausau's transit employees has become the last in the city to agree to wage concessions. The Amalgamated Transit Union Local ...
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Time to speed up regional transit legislation
Wisconsin Radio Network
by Brian Moon on December 5, 2009 Hundreds are gathering in West Allis today to speed up Regional Transit Authority legislation. Kurt Zunker, President of ...
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Google Blogs Alert for: transit news

Island Transit: A local jewel - Whidbey News Times
This comes as no surprise — after all, Island Transit has been recognized as the best small-transit system in the United States — but it is no less appreciated. Island Transit provided buses to take more than 140 residents to Everett so ...
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Report: N.Y. transit not prepared for emergencies - News - METRO ...
Inspector suggests appointing a central coordinator to oversee all emergency planning.
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Suburban transit providers say their savings will bail out others ...
By Jordan Independent
The council has reduced funding for the BlueXpress and other suburban bus providers with “excess reserves” in order to help cover a million regional shortfall for mass transit. read more · Go to Source. Related news: ...
Middle East Press (Beta) - Powered... - http://news.bayt.com/
Towards Transit: Denver's Forwards Thinking Transit Plans ...
By Scott
5280, a Denver news magazine had an interesting article about the future of Denver, but what was particularly encouraging is that about half of the 10 short pieces were about transit, sustainability & safe streets. ...
Towards Transit - http://towardstransit.blogspot.com/
Disposable ORCA Card Coming? - Seattle Transit Blog
By Oran Viriyincy
... of the ATU Local 587 News Review, a disposable card was planned to be offered when ORCA was being developed, but it was dropped due to security concerns. Kipp writes that the ORCA transit agencies are bringing this option back. ...
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Salt Lake Transit News Thread - Page 102 - SkyscraperPage Forum
Subject to tweaks, the proposed alignments would zip streetcars from the Salt Lake Central transit station south to 900 South, east to 500 East and right ...
News — Triangle Transit
Triangle Transit to Participate in Fourth Annual “Dump The Pump” Day (.pdf - news release). Triangle Transit Applies for Grant Funds from American Recovery ...
News Roundup: Keep Grace Crunican - Seattle Transit Blog
Seattle Metro area transit usage up 13.4% between 2006 and 2008, well behind several sun belt cities — and Detroit. Traffic congestion down, mostly due to ...
Retired Bus Driver Of Durham: Transit union leader blasts Metro ...
AMALGAMATED TRANSIT UNION, LOCAL 113 | Transit union leader blasts Metro News for insulting cartoon that will provoke assaults on TTC staff . ...
Depot money might be used to save transit - news spider
ELYRIA - US Rep. Betty Sutton will work to divert unused federal stimulus money from the train station restoration project in Elyria to assist Lorain County ...

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