Buses World News: March 2007

Dangerous Driver * USA - Several injured in NJ Transit bus crash

Lincoln Tunnel helix closed outbound

New Jersey,USA -WABC/Eyewitness News/7Online.com (New York,NY) -March 30, 2007: -- It happened at the Park Avenue exit off the Lincoln Tunnel Helix in Weehawken... The bus was packed with people and slammed headlong into a cement divider. The force drove the bus up and over the divider. Several people were seriously injured, some of them badly hurt... Passengers had no idea what had happened until they had been pulled from the bus by rescue teams who careened through rush hour traffic to reach them. Authorities say at least a half a dozen people were thrown from their seats and seriously injured... (Photo WABC: Authorities say there are dozens of people injured after a New Jersey Transit commuter bus crashed into the center divider of I-495 near the Lincoln Tunnel on Friday night, causing major traffic delays)

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* USA - Ohio gov. to sign bill creating new school bus driver regulations

Columbus,Oh,USA -Associated Press/The Akron Beacon Journal (Akron,OH), by MATT LEINGANG -Mar. 31, 2007: -- Gov. Ted Strickland will sign a $7.8 billion transportation budget Saturday that creates new regulations for school bus drivers, his office said Friday... The Ohio Education Association, the state's largest school employees' union, and other education groups had opposed the stepped-up regulations, saying they are too narrow and arbitrary and should be open to more debate... One provision in the bill bars school bus owners from allowing anyone to drive a bus or van for seven years after certain traffic violations, including driving under the influence or committing homicide or another felony with a vehicle... A second provision requires owners of a school bus or van to obtain seven-year driving record checks on all their drivers and annual records thereafter. Current policy requires a six-year review...

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Safety Check * UK - ‘Shock’ over school buses

Stevenage,Herts,UK -The Cambridgeshire Times -30 March 2007: -- A Policeman said he was shocked after a revealed one in six of Cambridgeshire's school coaches have defects... Twelve of 73 buses checked during the two-week operation were found to have serious defects, with three not allowed to be driven until repairs were carried out... Spot checks were carried out by officers and staff from the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA), on behalf of the Eastern region's Traffic Commissioner based in Cambridge... Of the 73 checked, 37 coaches were found to be clear of defects and 24 were issued with advisory defect notices, a recommendation to fix faults such as chipped windscreens... But nine coaches were given delayed prohibition notices, allowing 12 hours to fix the fault and to pass an MoT...

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Not to Privatize * USA - Southwest Licking Local Schools has decided its busing, will remain public

Pataskala,OH,USA — The Newark Advocate (Newark,OH), by CHAD KLIMACK -30 Mar 2007: -- The district’s bus drivers hailed the news... “I’m just glad to see the district did its research,” bus driver Linnie Milligan said. “I understand the district had to do this for the public to make sure there were no doors left open. It’s good news for us, and good news for the safety of the students.”... The district’s decision to explore privatization irked Milligan and many other bus drivers, who flocked to school board meetings to let it be known they did not support the move. The drivers argued the move would cripple the district’s oversight of the transportation department and cost drivers their jobs... Superintendent Forest Yocum said the district decided to consider privatization because of comments from concerned residents...

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* USA - Put electronic eyes in school buses, senator says

How can Brooklyn children be kept safe on school buses?

Brooklyn,NY,USA -The Park Slope Courier, by Helen Klein -30 Mar 2007: -- One local legislator has introduced legislation for video monitoring on all such vehicles, in the wake of reports of sexual abuse and violence occurring on them... The bill, authored by State Senator Marty Golden, would require every one of the state’s 55,000 school buses – which carry 2.3 million children across the state -- to be so equipped... Included in the legislation is a provision whereby the state would reimburse local school districts for the expense of installing such equipment, based on existing transportation aid formulas...

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* USA - AC Transit Purchase of Van Hool Buses Still on Track

Berkeley,CA,USA -The Berkeley Daily Planet, by J. Douglas Allen-Taylor -30 Mar 2007: -- AC Transit bus riders and drivers seeking to halt the Transit District’s purchase of more Van Hool buses got a distinctly chillier reception this week from the Metropolitan Transit Commission than they did when they first brought the issue to the MTC earlier this month... And Alameda County Supervisor Scott Haggerty, who had earlier said that he was not in favor of purchasing from the Belgian-based Van Hool when there was an American bus manufacturer—Gillig—headquarterd in Hayward, sharply lectured the AC Transit dissenters that their proper forum was not the MTC, but the AC Transit Board of Directors...

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DEBATE * USA - Feds may require seat belts on buses

Final regulation mandating electronic stability control on all vehicles
Washington,DC,USA -The Detroit News (Detroit,Mich), by David Shepardson -March 30, 2007: -- The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's chief said the agency may require commercial buses to install seat belts, but probably not school buses... Separately, NHTSA chief Nicole Nason said the agency expected to announce within a week a final regulation mandating electronic stability control on all vehicles by 2012... NHTSA will seek public comments on the issue of seat belts in buses and bus safety, Nason said at a House committee hearing on NHTSA's 2008 budget request...

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* Fiji - Operators 'ordered to repair buses'

Suva,Fiji -The Fiji Times -March 31, 2007: -- About 60 per cent of buses in a Northern town do not meet the Land Transport Authority's standard of vehicle condition... LTA's route safety officer in Labasa Alfred Wiliame said buses inspected as part of Operation Daumaka, held last month, revealed that about 60 per cent were in bad condition and needed maintenance work...

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"GREEN" NEWS

* USA - Ken-Ton Schools Buses to get upgrades to reduce emissions
North Tonawanda,NY,USA -The Tonawanda News, by Daniel Pye -30 Mar 2007: -- Town of Tonawanda residents will soon be breathing sighs of relief with cleaner air... Erie County is receiving nearly $300,000 from the Environmental Protection Agency to retrofit 128 buses in the Kenmore-Town of Tonawanda School District’s fleet with equipment to reduce carbon emissions...

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Driver Shortage * USA - BYU Graduation Creates School Bus

Provo,Utah,USA -AP/The Daily Herald/KSL-TV (Salt Lake City,UT) -March 29, 2007: -- The Provo School District already has a bus driver shortage, but that shortage is about to become even more pronounced after classes end at Brigham Young University... Nearly 35 percent of the district's bus drivers are students, and many of them want to quit when final exams end, nearly a month before public school lets out for summer... The district is offering $750 bonuses to new drivers and to those who haven't missed a day during the year...

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Bravery Award * Australia - Laura, 16, averts disaster

A 16-year-old girl has averted disaster for a busload of school children and passengers

Sydney,New South Wales,Australia -The Sydney Morning Herald, by Scott Casey & Shannon Molloy -March 30, 2007: -- She leapt up and grabbed the steering wheel. He had his foot hard on the accelerator, they were heading towards the bush and she yelled at him to get his foot off the accelerator. He came to and lifted it off but she was steering the bus... A 16-year-old girl has averted disaster for a busload of school children and passengers when the bus they were travelling on careered off the road just past Muckadilla in South-West Queensland... Laura Simpson grabbed the wheel and turned the coach back onto the road after the driver collapsed, around 3am... A statement from police said the bus ran into a dry creek bed and hit a sign post before narrowly missing a concrete drain... A spokesperson for Roma Police Station who were the first on the scene have said that Laura will be nominated for a bravery medal... She also arranged an ambulance, a replacement bus driver and helped look after the 37 other passengers on board - many of them schoolchildren... (Picture: Laura Simpson ... quick thinking saved the day)

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BUSES' PURCHASE PROSPECTS

* Ireland - 'Three hundred new buses needed to meet demand'
Dublin,Ireland -Ireland Online - 28/ Mar 2007: -- SIPTU is seeking an urgent meeting with Minister for Transport Martin Cullen to discuss investment in public transport services across the country... The union says it accepts that the Government has been spending money in this area, but 300 more buses are still needed to meet commuter demand in cities across the country...

* USA - House looking to replace aging public transit buses
Montpelier,Vt,USA -The Boston Globe (Boston,MA), by Ross Sneyd/Associated Press -March 28, 2007: -- New public transit routes have been added around Vermont in recent years, getting more and more commuters out of cars and into buses.
The problem is that the buses are now wearing out, and there's not enough money to buy replacements... So lawmakers, who see mass transit as an eco-friendly initiative, are looking into wrapping the public transit budget into pending climate change legislation... And they believe they'd be helping the environment even more if they raised money to buy new buses and vans by tacking an extra charge onto the registration fees of gas-guzzling passenger vehicles...

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* Canada - McGuinty Government Delivers New Buses To Durham Region

Buses Are Fully Accessible And Environmentally Friendly

Whitby,ONT,CAN -CNW Telbec (Communiqués de presse) - March 28, 2007: -- Today's unveiling of 30 new buses shows the McGuinty government's public transit commitment is delivering results in Durham Region, announced Parliamentary Assistant Phil McNeely on behalf of Transportation Minister Donna Cansfield... The 30 new fully accessible and environmentally-friendly low floor buses delivered today cost approximately $14 million...

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Equipment Problems * USA - Delay Plan for Cameras on Buses

New York,NY,USA -The New York Times, by WILLIAM NEUMAN -March 29, 2007: -- A $5.2 million program to equip city buses with security cameras has been delayed because tests of the digital camera system have turned up gaps in the recorded images, transit officials said yesterday... New York City Transit announced the program last November, saying it had hired Integrian, a North Carolina company, to equip 450 Manhattan buses with cameras that would store images for 90 days...

* USA - Officers Along For The Ride On MTA Buses
WTVF - Nashville,TN,USA -March 29, 2007: -- MTA has put uniformed officers on city busses before, but recently, they have been placing officers in plain clothes on busses... "It's getting to where it's bad, ya know, for the elderly to ride the bus, kids, disrespecting the older people," MTA rider Kim Covington said... Young bus riders seemed to cause the most problems last year...

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Old Buses * UK - Electric Elephants Graveyard

Stumbled upon the electric vehicle 'Elephants' Graveyard'...

London,UK -Biglorryblog -28 Mar 2007: -- ... Well he's been busy tracking down ancient electric vehicles and tells me: "Every town concept vehicle is based on the milk float. ECT, TX450, even the Dennis Elite and Econic. Forward mounted cab? Well Modec has a forward-mounted cab, rear-entry and batteries, and all the best to them too as the timing is about right."... (Picture: Thanks to Volvo's John Comer)

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* Philippines - Gunmen seize school bus in Manila, 32 children held

Manila,Philippines -Reuters Canada (Toronto,Ont) -Mar 27, 2007: -- Two armed men took over a school bus in the Philippine capital Manila on Wednesday and were holding 32 children and two teachers hostage, police and television reports said... It appeared they wanted to highlight the lack of educational opportunities for children from a local slum community. A local politician, Senator Ramon Revilla, entered the bus to talk to the gunmen and try to persuade them to surrender... One of the hostage-takers told television he would surrender if he was promised that 145 children at a day care center in the Tondo suburb were provided with education...

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Bus rider ‘scent’ packing * Canada - Seeks apology from city

... wearing her usual two squirts of Very Irrésistible by Givenchy, a perfume billed as bringing out a woman’s “spontaneity, audacity and sensuality”...

Don Mills,Ontario,Canada -National Post, by Kelly Patrick -27, Mar 2007: -- A Calgary woman twice kicked off public transit because bus drivers considered her perfume too strong is demanding the City of Calgary apologize and punish the drivers... “I was just shocked,” Natalie Kuhn said. “I was very upset, very embarrassed.”... Ms. Kuhn’s first scent-related altercation with a Calgary Transit driver began on Thursday, the day before the start of an ongoing work-to-rule campaign by the transit operators’ union, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 583, which is in the midst of contract negotiations with the city... The 25-year-old chiropractic assistant said she boarded a bus at a transfer station in northwest Calgary around 8:30 a.m. wearing her usual two squirts of Very Irrésistible by Givenchy, a perfume billed as bringing out a woman’s “spontaneity, audacity and sensuality.”...

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BUSES' PURCHASE PROSPECTS

* USA - More buses to serve northern New Mexico
Los Alamos,N.M.,USA -AP/KOB-TV (Albuquerque,NM) -26 Mar 2007: -- Buses are coming to more places in northern New Mexico because a $1.6 million grant fund will pay to expand routes in Los Alamos, Santa Fe and Rio Arriba counties... The grant money also will pay to operate a regional transit authority...

* Pakistan - Transporters to get Rs 5b for 20,000 new CNG buses
Karachi,Pakistan -Daily Times (Lahore,Pakistan) -27 Mar 2007: -- The federal government will provide a subsidy of Rs 5 billion to Karachi’s transporters for the procurement of new CNG buses, Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan was told Monday during a meeting held at the Governor House... The federal government had approved a PC-I for CNG buses in Karachi for the City District Government Karachi (CDGK) and 250 new CNG buses would be introduced in the city next month, City Nazim Mustafa Kamal told members of the meeting. Participants at the meeting concluded that in order to cater to the needs of the millions of commuters in Karachi, the city needed at least 20,000 new wide-bodied buses...

* Canada - Nova Scotia government to help fund two hybrid buses for Halifax
Halifax,NS,Canada -The Canadian Press -27 Mar 2007: -- Public transit is about to get more environmentally friendly in Halifax with the addition of two hybrid buses... The province will provide $600,000 toward the purchase of two hybrid electric-diesel buses for Metro Transit... They are expected to be in service within two years...

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Booze buses at dawn * Australia - Police to target hung-over morning drivers

Albury,New South Wales,Australia -Border Mail, by BRAD WORRALL -27 Mar 2007: -- Police have foreshadowed early morning booze buses for the Border in a bid to catch those still recovering from a bender... In four days from Thursday Wodonga police breath-tested more than 1600 drivers... Only four were over the limit but more telling was all were nabbed in late afternoon and early evening...

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* USA - As Ridership Rises, Long Island Bus System Faces $4 Million Deficit

New York,NY,USA -The New York Times, by KEN BELSON -March 26, 2007: -- ... For a growing number of commuters who live in the city and work in Hempstead, Hicksville and beyond, the N6 and other routes run by the Long Island Bus system are lifelines. The better known mass transit option, the Long Island Rail Road, is geared toward taking commuters to and from Manhattan during the rush, so service in the opposite direction is often thin. The train is also more expensive and does not serve hubs like Melville... (Photo by Librado Romero/The New York Times -- The Long Island Bus system, whose ridership is at record highs, is a lifeline for a growing number of commuters who live in New York City and work on Long Island)

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BUSES' PURCHASE

* Turkmenistan - To purchase 35 buses from Iran Khodro
Ashkhabad,Turkmenistan -IRNA -March 24, 2007: -- Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov in an order issued on Saturday declared that his country will purchase 35 buses from Iran to boost the urban transportation fleet... The Turkmen president has authorized the Ministry of Road and Transportation to conclude the contract with Iran Khodro Company to supply the buses... According to the paper the worth of the buses exceeded dlrs 3.5 million...

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Watch Program * USA - County School Bus Drivers Certified in

Southern Pines,NC,USA -Southern Pines Pilot -24 Mar 2007: -- About 110 Moore County school system bus drivers and monitors recently participated in the School Bus Watch training on identifying and reporting situations that may present a danger to students... School Bus Watch was developed for the school bus industry by representatives from the National Association for Pupil Transportation Services (NASDPTS), and the National School Transportation Association (NSTA) in cooperation with the Highway Watch program. The program is funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the American Trucking Association...

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PRODUCTION * Hong Kong/China - Scania double-decker buses going on trial

Hong Kong,CHI -Automotive World -28 March, 2007: -- Two of Scania's three-axle double-deckers are going on trial in Hong Kong's city centre... The models were jointly developed by Scania and Hong Kong bus operator Kowloon Motor Bus Company (KMB) to meet the local conditions... The three-axle bus is powered...

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BUSES' PURCHASE * USA - AC Transit Approves Purchase Of Additional Van Hool Buses

Berkeley,CA,USA -The Berkeley Daily Planet, by J. Douglas Allen-Taylor -23 Mar 2007: -- Ignoring complaints and controversy over 50 40-foot Belgian-made buses already in the pipeline, AC Transit directors this week quickly approved a staff recommendation to trade in 10 currently-operating buses for 10 more buses manufactured by the Van Hool company, even before the prototype for the original new bus order has been built and approved...

* India - Haryana Transport Department in India Strenghthened The Fleet Of Buses
Chandigarh,India -TravelVideo.tv (press release-USA ), by M.M.Khanna -Mar 23, 2007: -- Haryana Transport Department has a plan to strengthen its fleet of buses by increasing their number from 3500 to 4500 during the 11th Five Year Plan by adding fuel efficient CNG buses, several AC and deluxe buses...

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* Hong Kong/China - Lawmakers push for seat belts in buses

Hong Kong,China -The Standard, by Winnie Chong -March 24, 2007: -- The Legislative Council's transport panel has passed a nonbinding motion calling on the government to enact legislation that will make it mandatory for bus passengers to wear safety belts... The motion, which was passed Friday by six votes to nil with three abstentions, was proposed after legislators accused the Transport Department and bus operators of failing to enhance passenger safety despite a series of recent serious bus accidents...

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"GREEN" NEWS * Canada - Montreal buses to run on biodiesel

Montreal,Quebec,Canada -CBC News -March 23, 2007: -- Montreal's transit corporation is switching to biodiesel fuel and buying hybrid buses in an attempt to green its fleet and cut carbon emissions... All Société de transport de Montréal (STM) buses will run on biodiesel fuel by 2008, and the transition should be fairly inexpensive, said president Claude Trudel... Bus engines can run on biodiesel fuel without requiring any modifications, and the cost of a fill-up should be the same...

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DANGEROUS BUSES * Thailand - 30 passengers evacuated in bus fire

Khon Kaen accident echoes Saraburi tragedy that left 30 dead, 23 injured

Bangkok,Thailand -Nation Multimedia -23 Mar 2007: -- All 30 passengers escaped unhurt after their bus caught fire in Khon Kaen yesterday, just days after a similar incident on a Bangkok-bound coach in Saraburi left 30 passengers dead and dozens injured... The bus, travelling from Nakhon Ratchasima to Udon Thani, was passing through Khon Kaen's Ban Had sub-district on the Mitraparp Highway at 3.30pm when its engine caught fire. Fearing a repeat of the Saraburi mishap, the driver promptly pulled over and evacuated all the passengers safely... Meanwhile, the president of the Private Bus Operators' Association, Sujinda Cherdchai, has objected to the Land Transport Department's proposal to retire buses after 10 years of use and to have them undergo checks every two years, which were made amid claims that the Saraburi accident was caused by mechanical problems arising from the bus's age...

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Heroes * USA - Students Come To Rescue When Bus Driver Passes Out

Middle School Students Hailed As

Philadelphia,PA,USA -NBC 10.com -March 23, 2007: -- If your school bus driver passes out at the wheel, what would you do?... The students said when they noticed something was wrong with their bus driver Thursday morning they were afraid yet they stepped up to the plate and saved the driver and themselves from danger... Once at the front of bus 16, 12-year-old Chris Schreiber grabbed the wheel and called his 12-year-old friend, Jason Conti and his 14-year-old brother, Sean, to help stop their school bus... The bus was heading into oncoming traffic on Nottingham Way...

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Satisfaction * USA - City says more are taking buses

Thousand Oaks,CA,USA -The Thousand Oaks Acorn, by Nancy Needham -22 Mar 2007: -- The number of people on the bus grows and grows... Thousand Oaks Transit has made improvements that have resulted in an increase in ridership... Among the service improvements that get credit for TOT's new popularity is the availability of Spanish-language posters and brochures promoting the service and providing information on bus route schedules, said Grahame Watts, project manager... Another big plus is the emphasis on making sure buses show up on time...

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One year free bus * UK - Win a full travel on Oyster card

London,UK -The Endfield Independient -21 Mar 2007: -- It's smart, it saves you money and time, it's worth more than £500 and you can win one. It's Oyster and your number one local paper is offering readers the chance to get one for free... Oyster is Transport for London's smart card which gives you ticket-free access to the capital's bus, Tube and DLR network... But that's not all it does. It can save you time and money. Lots of both, in fact. Research has shown the average bus user would be about £220 better off every year if everyone started using Oyster cards...

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* UK - Police to patrol buses

Kent,UK -News Shopper, by Alison White -21 Mar 2007: -- Kent Police officers will travel on Fastrack buses in a bid to cut down crime on public transport... Plain-clothed and uniformed officers and PCSOs will takes action if any offences occur while they are on the bus... They will also patrol Arriva vehicles as part of the new scheme...

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State urged * USA - To put buses on the roads

Too many people are driving on the state's roads

Danbury,CT,USA -News Time Live, by Robert Miller -Mar 21 2007: -- "I-95 is a traffic nightmare," Karen Burnaska, coordinator of Transit for Connecticut, said Tuesday. "I-84 is becoming almost as congested."... In a report issued Monday, Transit for Connecticut asked the state to take some of those cars off the road by increasing state spending on bus transportation by nearly $280 million over the next five years... (Photo: Linda Tarjanyi, of Danbury gets off the bus at the Kennedy Avenue bus stop in Danbury on Tuesday)

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New Buses * USA - Bobcat Tram in process of upgrading to

San Marcos,TX,USA -The University Star, by Chelsea Juarez -21 Mar 2007: -- The University StarTexas State will receive 23 new buses designed with features to provide security, comfort and a smoother ride for passengers... Robert Garza, general manager of First Transit at Texas State, the company that owns tram provider Cognisa, said he is excited about the innovative features the Texas State Bobcat Trams will provide and hopes drivers and passengers will be too... (Jennifer Williams/Star Photo. UPGRADING: With numerous features to increase ease of use, comfort and Texas State’s modern image, the university’s 23 new buses will be phased into use through May)

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* USA - Manatee County's two plug-in hybrid buses to cost $450k USD

Manatee,Fl,USA -The DailyTech (Chicago,IL) -20 Mar 2007: -- Hybrid automobile are slowly starting to gain acceptance and traction in the U.S. auto market and it now looks as though the Manatee County School District in Florida is going hybrid-crazy as well -- on a much larger scale. The school system is welcoming two plug-in hybrid school buses, Wouk and Limpio, into the 250-vehicle fleet...

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* Chile - Transantiago Buses bad, Metro not much better

Santiago,Chile -The Santiago Times (subscription) -March 20, 2007: -- More than 120 protests have taken place since the new Transantiago public transport system came into place over 40 days ago, with riots occurring this weekend in Villa Francia and Cerro Navia... Transport Minister Sergio Bitar sought to pacify Santiago’s citizens by extending 73 bus routes and introducing 300 more buses, but Santiaguinians are still unhappy... On Monday, Metro executive Jorge Cornejo was attacked by angry passengers at La Cisterna, after the station was temporarily shut due to overcrowding... Protests against the Transantiago have not generally been violent – but residents of Chile’s capital are certainly making their views heard. Most of the complaints are directed at the infrequency and in some cases the total absence of buses in the new system...

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DANGEROUS BUSES

* Thailand - At least 28 Killed in Thai Bus Fire
Bangkok,Thailand -The Pakistan Times (Islamabad,Pakistan) -20 Mar 2007: -- At least 28 people were killed and 14 injured Tuesday when a Bangkok-bound bus caught fire and careened down a hillside in central Thailand, police said... After the fire broke out, the bus veered off the road and crashed down a hillside, police added...

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Bus Safety * USA - Congressional call for improved one

Washington,DC,USA -WTOL (Toledo,OH)/Associated Press -21 Mar 2007: -- Congressional Democrats called for better inspections and tougher standards for bus operators today because of the recent crash in Atlanta that killed five college baseball players from Ohio... Oregon Democrat Peter DeFazio asked why the government hasn't implemented long-standing recommendations for restraints such as seat belts or stronger windows that could prevent passengers from being ejected. Many victims in the Atlanta crash were ejected... But the top Republican on the subcommittee cautioned against over-regulation and praised the bus industry's safety...

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BUSES' PURCHASE

* USA - Crestwood board approves purchase of two new buses
Paris,IL,USA -Paris Beacon News (subscription), by Jenny Barkley -19 Mar 2007: -- The Crestwood bus fleet will have two new vehicles next year, following action of the Board of Education Wednesday evening during the monthly board meeting... Superintendent Lorraine Bailey informed the board regarding her search for nearly-new buses to be added to the fleet as relacements for two buses to be retired... Availble as used leased buses, she said, were 65-passenger and 71-passenger models...

* USA - $87-Million Purchase Of New Buses
Ft. Lauderdale,FL.USA -CBS4, by Eliott Rodriguez -20 Mar 2007: -- Broward commuters will soon have some brand new buses to ride on after the county commissioners agreed Tuesday to spend $87 million on new ones... The first fleet of 48 new buses is expected to arrive in six months, with 150 more in the next five years, which will expand the current 290-bus fleet... Broward County Transit will still get the money they need to pay for new buses. It will also avoid BCT from raising the price of fares to pay for the buses...

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Bus Plan * USA - Advocates Push it

Hartford,CT,USA -The Hartford Courant, by GARY LIBOW -March 19, 2007: -- Mass transit advocates on Monday unveiled a five-year, $309 million plan for enhancing commuter bus service statewide that they say would boost the number of riders significantly... Transit for Connecticut -- a New Haven-based coalition of 20-plus business, social service, environmental and transportation organizations across Connecticut -- recommends the state expand express bus services to major employment centers, and increase operating hours and frequency of service on heavily traveled routes. It's also urging increased weekend and evening bus service, expanded Dial-A-Ride options, more commuter connections with rail stations, and increased interregional service to improve access to jobs... Curt Johnson, of Connecticut Fund for the Environment, said investing in clean diesel bus systems could reduce dangerous emissions 80 to 90 percent by 2010...

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Off Road * UK - 'Unsafe' school buses taken

Four school buses and coaches have been taken off the road following a police sting

Barnoldswick,England,UK -The Barnoldswick Times -20 Mar 2007: -- A crackdown on unsafe buses, mini-buses and coaches – codenamed Operation Coachman – was carried out by Pennine Division's road policing unit, the Automatic Number Plate Recognition team and VOSA... As part of the operation on Thursday and Friday, 15 vehicles were chosen at random and taken to an inspection point once they had dropped the children off and given a thorough inspection.... Four of them were given immediate prohibitions for defects involving brake discs, suspension and in one case, a fire hazard...

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* Argentine - The youngest driver in the world ??? ....

No... It's Toby, publisher's grandson ...!!!

Buenos Aires,CABA,Argentine -Trucks World News -19 Mar 2007: ...

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Odd Items * USA - Found on City Trains, Buses

Goldfish, Bicycles, Envelopes of Cash? Just Another Day at City Transit Lost-And-Founds

NEW YORK,NY,USA -ABC News, by JAYNA DESAI -Mar 17, 2007: -- When transit supervisor Eulette Stewart-Graham received a letter from the parent of a distressed child, it wasn't the boy's lost bag that was important it was the contents: his goldfish, Slurpy. The boy's pet never turned up, but Stewart-Graham responded to the letter anyway. As station supervisor of New York City Transit's lost property unit, she and her staff are used to questions that range from the mundane to the quirky and even bizarre... (Photo, by Bebeto Matthews/AP: A set of incomplete dentures is among the lost property at the MTA New York Transit's main storage area for lost items in New York, Friday Jan. 12, 2007)

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Bus Safety Standards * USA - Little Consistency in

New York,NY,USA -The New York Times, by DEBRA NUSSBAUM -March 18, 2007: -- School buses remain the safest form of transportation to and from school, according to various federal statistics, but regulation of the buses is uneven. No federal laws govern whether safety belts are required on school buses, how often the buses must be inspected or how many years they can be on the road. On a state level, there are significant differences in such laws — New York and New Jersey require seat belts on buses, for example, but Connecticut does not. Districts can have their own rules, too... But whenever there are accidents involving a bus, like the one in Bucks County, Pa., in January in which 17 students were injured, parents and educators alike take another look at bus safety... (Photo by Laura Pedrick for The New York Times - Students who ride school buses in New Jersey, like these children in Cherry Hill, must wear seat belts)

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"GREEN NEWS" * Peru - Natural gas buses to enter Lima's public transportation system

Lima,Peru -El Comercio Peru -16 March, 2007: -- New passenger buses that run on natural gas will be tested on Lima's busy and congested streets with the hope of successfully passing all of the required elements that are needed to officially circulate in the Peruvian capital... Authorities from the municipalities of Lima and Callao are confident that this alternative can prove to be beneficial to government authorities, transportation companies, passengers, and above all else, the environment... (Photo: Municipality of Lima - Natural gas buses are currently being evaluated by municipal authorities from Lima and Callao)

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Sign Language * UK - Film for London's Buses

London,UK -MayorWatch -16 March 2007: -- Bus users in London will be able to view a new 30-second film about sign language produced by Deaf people in support of British Sign Language Recognition Day... The film will air on over 350 buses across London between on March 18 – 19...

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TECHNOBUSES * USA - Bay Buses Abound with Wi-Fi

AC Transit latest bus line in SF Bay Area to add or test Wi-Fi
Seattle,WA,USA -The Wi-Fi Networking News, by Glenn Fleishman -March 16, 2007: -- Checking my archives, it seems that nearly every transportation authority with long runs around the San Francisco Bay Area is considering or testing Wi-Fi-based Internet access on buses. The latest is AC Transit, which carries 11,000 passengers daily across three major Bay bridges (the big one, Dumbarton, and San Mateo-Hayward)... Service will be free. It will operate on 78* green motorcoaches starting in stages in March, and all ready by April. The cost for the buses is just $138,000 to equip and $60 per month per bus for service, the price of a long-term cell data contract...

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Watch Kids * USA - Some extremists may be driving school buses

Washington,DC,USA -The Massillon Independent (Massillon,OH)/AP -17 Mar 2007: -- Suspected members of extremist groups have signed up as school bus drivers in the United States, counterterror officials said Friday, in a cautionary bulletin to police. An FBI spokesman said, “Parents and children have nothing to fear.”... Asked about the alert notice, the FBI’s Rich Kolko said, “There are no threats, no plots and no history leading us to believe there is any reason for concern,” although law enforcement agencies around the country were asked to watch out for kids’ safety...

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BUSES' PURCHASE

* Uganda - Scandinavia to import more buses
Kampala,Uganda -New Vision, by Kiganda Ssonko -15 March, 2007: -- The Scandinavia Express Services, a regional passenger and cargo transport company, is to add 20 more buses to its fleet of 120 in East Africa and Zambia, the company’s country manager disclosed recently... The Tanzania-based bus company operates an intercity passenger bus transport and cargo handling business and offers scheduled services to 18 destinations in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia...

* Malaysia - Nadicorp signs US$77m finance deal for CNG buses
Shah Alam,Malaysia -The Malaysia Star (Petaling Jaya,Malaysia), by Sabry Tahir -March 16, 2007: -- Bus service operator Nadicorp Holdings Sdn Bhd has signed a seven-year US$77mil financial agreement with Samsung Corp to purchase 465 compressed natural gas (CNG)-powered buses, pioneering the use of the liquid for commercial bus operations...

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Bureaucratic Obstacles * Turkey - Chinese buses banned from traffic

Istanbul,Turkey -Today's Zaman, by İbrahim Balta -16 Mar 2007: -- Initiatives of Chinese firms to access the Turkish auto market have been blocked. Chinese Jinling double-decker buses, which are produced by Zhong Da, carried passengers for only two weeks in İstanbul’s streets before they were outlawed... The Turkish Patent Agency (TSE) cancelled the buses’ certificate of conformity and the İstanbul Electric Trolley and Tunnels Administration (İETT) banned the usage of these buses for public transportation... The price of domestically manufactured double-deckers, which are already used for public transportation, is 165,000 euros and the price of a Hungarian bus is 190,000-200,000 euros... “If I would sell the buses for 140,000 euros rather than 121,000 euros they would not be banned. The decision was made because of those who lost their benefits wanted to pressure [the government],” Ali Rıza Üstün, owner of the İstanbul Motor Company, brought the buses to Turkey claimed... He said that he had faced many bureaucratic obstacles when he wanted to import buses from China since the beginning. Üstün added automobile dealers in Turkey were negotiating with Chinese firms and he claimed the bans would be revoked after they dealt with those firms...

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DANGEROUS DRIVERS

* China - Bus plunges into reservoir, 22 dead
Luzhou,Sichuan,China -Xinhua/Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney,New South Wales,Australia) -March 16, 2007: -- Twenty two people died and three are missing after a bus veered off a highway, crashed through a barrier and plunged into a reservoir in China early today... The driver took a curve on the slippery, rain soaked road too fast just after midnight, quoted local police... China again topped the world list of road deaths and accidents last year, with nearly 99,000 people killed in 450,000 accidents in the most populous country on the planet... (Photo: AP - A crane is used to pull up the bus from the reservoir after it careered off a road and plunged into the water)

* USA - Bus accident blamed on driver error
Hattiesburg,MS,USA -The Hattiesburg American, by Rachel Leifer -16 Mar 2007: -- A bus officials said was carrying dozens of migrant Jamaican hotel workers overturned in southern Forrest County on Wednesday, sending 32 people to area hospitals and clogging traffic on U.S. 49 for hours... According to statements from the bus driver, the buses made a wrong turn on U.S. 49, and when he realized the mistake around noon, he reached down to retrieve a road map, dropped it and overturned the bus in the median, Mississippi Highway Patrol Sgt. James Snyder said...

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COMMENT * USA - Hybrids Rule the Roost

USA -Today's Trucking, by Rolf Lockwood -March 14, 2007: -- Not surprisingly, hybrid diesel/electric trucks dominated the Work Truck Show and 43rd annual convention of the National Truck Equipment Association (NTEA) in Indianapolis last week. It was no surprise because the hybrid truck is getting great traction these days. As the technology improves, and as every truck maker under the sun rolls out a variation on the theme, it’s attracting eyeballs left, right, and center... And calculators are beginning to buzz, given the promise of fuel savings from 30% on up to 60% and more for vocational trucks. There’s even a promise of 5-8% for over-the-road machines...

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OPINION * Canada - Changing trade patterns point to long-term challenge for trucking

Canada -Truck News, by Lou Smyrlis -15 Mar 2007: -- Costs for Canada’s largest carriers are continuing to rise faster than revenues and that should be cause for concern on two fronts... First, obviously, because cost containment is proving particularly difficult and will remain so because fuel prices remain volatile, equipment costs are on the rise due to the new emission standards for heavy duty truck engines and labor costs are expected to retain their upward momentum... A major concern for the long term has to be the change in trade patterns we’ve experienced since 2002... But this performance was almost completely offset by the slowdown in trade with our major trade partner and the engine of growth for many fleets over the past decade: the US... While serving the US market will obviously continue to be key to carrier revenues – it would be foolish to ignore our largest trade partner and the world’s largest economy – it may also be wise to start re-investing in the infrastructure necessary to serve our national economy. In fact domestic – and actually intra-provincial – traffic has been the fastest growing traffic the last few years...

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Rules * USA - Sought for bus drivers

Columbus,OH,USA -Associated Press/Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati,OH) -14 Mar 2007: -- Employers would review complete driving histories of school bus driver applicants and candidates couldn't have a drunken driving conviction in the past six years under a proposal approved Tuesday by the state school board... School districts and private busing companies currently have access to three years of driving history, and state law excludes candidates with too many moving violations or a drunken driving conviction within the past two years... The state school board on Tuesday unanimously approved some of the tougher standards proposed by Pete Japikse, director of student transportation for the Ohio Department of Education...

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Iconic buses * USA - Ready to roll in park again

Yellowstone National Park,Wyoming,USA -The Billings Gazette (Billings,MT), by MIKE STARK -14 Mar 2007: -- After a decades-long absence, vintage yellow tour buses return to Yellowstone National Park this summer... Eight buses, built in the 1930s and refurbished over the past year, will provide tours for Yellowstone visitors starting June 4... Though many of the parts have been restored, the buses include modern additions such as heaters, lights and other modifications to meet today's federal safety standards... (Photo courtesy Xanterra Parks and Resorts - Eight refurbished buses from Yellowstone National Park's past, including this one, will return to the park for tours this summer)

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* India - 1,497 buses were impounded

641 Blueline buses challaned in 2006
New Delhi,India -The Hindu/PTI -March 15, 2007: -- As many as 641 private Blueline buses in the Capital were challaned in 2006 for violating permit conditions... A total of 815 notices were served for plying without valid certificate of fitness to buses, he said in a written reply... As many as 1,497 buses were impounded by the Transport Department for violation of rules in the period April 2006 to February 2007, up from 1,288 in the corresponding period in the previous year...

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* USA - Georgia To Add Safety Measures After Crash

"Anything that can be done now to prevent future accidents is significant": Bluffton University President James Harder

Atlanta,GA,USA -CBC News -March 14, 2007: -- Georgia highway officials investigating a deadly bus crash said Tuesday they would add safety measures to several commuter-lane exits like the one the baseball team's bus had taken before it plunged off an overpass two weeks ago... Georgia Department of Transportation spokesman David Spear said the state would be adding signs and reflective striping to seven similar ramps... The bus driver apparently mistook one of the Atlanta-area commuter-lane exit ramps for a lane, officials said... (Photo: AP - A charter bus carrying the Bluffton University baseball team from Ohio is seen after it plunged off a highway ramp early on March 2, 2007, in Atlanta. The bus slammed into the I-75 pavement below, killing seven people)

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Technology for Buses * USA - School buses are going high tech

GPS system will track students entering and leaving the buses

Ocala,FL,USA -Ocala.com, by JOE CALLAHAN -13 Mar 2007: -- A new global positioning satellite system will soon be added to 51 school buses as part of a three-month pilot program to track students and buses and determine other transportation needs in the county... For $50,000, system will monitor whether students get on a bus, and when the exit the vehicle during a trial period... Students will be given cards that will automatically be scanned, whether in a backpack or clothing, when students enter the bus... System will pinpoint location of buses (and students on them) for the school district...

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* Jamaica - 24 New Buses to JUTC

Kingston,Jamaica -JIS/Government of Jamaica, Jamaica Information Service - March 12, 2007: -- Some 24 new buses, to be used to transport persons to and from Sabina Park and the Trelawny Multi-purpose stadium, during the ICC Cricket World Cup (CWC), were handed over to the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC), today (March 9), by Minister of Housing, Transport, Water and Works, Robert Pickersgill... The buses, which were acquired from the Government of Belgium, will go into regular service after Cricket World Cup, to boost the service to regular commuters...

* India - 100 low-floor buses soon
Chennai,India -The Hindu -15 Mar 2007: -- Transport Minister K.N. Nehru on Wednesday said 100 low-floor buses would be added to the MTC fleet on March 21...

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GREEN NEWS * Pakistan - CNG buses on The Mall from 23rd

Lahore,Pakistan -The Daily Times, by Rana Kashif -13 Mar 2007: -- The Punjab Transport Department (PTD) planned to run a 12-CNG buses service on The Mall on March 23... He said a private company, a franchised bus company, has prepared these buses, launching this pilot project... He said the PTD had decided to replace the public transport buses with the CNG buses. The buses would be run as a test service and if it received positive results, more buses would be launched...

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DANGEROUS DRIVERS

* USA - Dozens wounded in bus collision in
Washington,DC,USA -chinaview.cn/Xinhua/NBC News (USA) -March 12, 2007: -- Dozens of people were injured on Monday when two commuter buses collided in Montgomery County near Washington, D.C., reported... Police said a bus was rear-ended by another in the 12100 block of Veirs Mill Road in Montegomery County around 8:30 in the morning, according to the report...
* More than 30 hurt in crash of buses -
Washington,DC,USA -The Washington Times, by Daniel Taylor & Arlo Wagner -March 13, 2007: -- A Montgomery County transit bus driver was charged in connection with an accident with a Metrobus yesterday morning that injured more than 30 people...

* India - Bus falls into gorge in India, 18 dead
Lucknow,India -Leading The Charge (Milton,Queensland,Australia) -Mar 13, 2007: -- A bus carrying a wedding party plunged into a gorge in mountainous northern India, killing at least 18 people and injuring another 27, a government official said Tuesday... "Initial inquiry suggests that the driver, along with many other members of the marriage party, was in an inebriated state," he said...

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Bus Vs. Cars * USA

Peoria-Bloomington,IL,USA -Central Illinois Proud/WMBD/WYZZ TV, by Rachel Stein -12 Mar 2007: -- More commuters are choosing to take a bus than pony up the cash for gas. Mass transit nationwide is seeing its highest level of riders in fifty years says the American Public Transportation Association in a report released today... Local Transit Authorities say the trend to leave the car for a bus is "catching on" in the heartland as well... Ridership in Central Illinois has exceeded the three million mark year after year. Transit Authorities say they've seen a sharp increase in the last four years which goes hand-in-hand with the rising price at the pumps... On the other hand, Peoria area commuters took 200-thousand bus rides and Twin Cities passengers took nearly 100-thousand in the month of January... Bloomington-Normal Public Transit System says that's a seven percent jump from last year. Transit authorities say the increase in riders will have them adding stops and even new routes...

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COMMENTS * Australia - Promises, promises but is transport important?

NSW,Australia -Australasian Bus & Coach -14 March 2007: -- In the final run-up to the NSW election Opposition Leader, Peter Debnam, has played down the importance of transport, putting water and health at the top of the priority list, above education, transport, and law and order. He is not going to announce an integrated transport plan before the election...

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MALAYSIA:State to Run City Buses as Privatisation Fails

Penang,Malaysia -Inter Press Service (subscription -Rome,Italy), by Anil Netto -Mar 12, 2007: -- A state-owned bus company is set to take over public transport in this traffic-clogged northern state after a concerted civil society campaign highlighted the failure of the existing privatised, deregulated bus service. But public transport campaigners are not about to celebrate... They are wary of a federal-level firm, albeit government-owned, coming in to manage what is essentially a state-level metropolitan bus service. Earlier with the lack of enforcement by a federal-level regulatory board has not inspired confidence that an ‘imported' solution is best. In a way, the failure of the privatised, deregulated model in Penang mirrors what happened in the national capital of Kuala Lumpur, where the public transport system, privatised in piecemeal fashion to well connected firms, flopped spectacularly... These private firms, which ran the bus services and light rail transit systems in the Kuala Lumpur area, chalked up huge losses largely as a result of a lack of integration among the different services and poor coordination and enforcement...

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* Australia - Deckers must return to Sydney?

"People are moving to the suburbs but still working in the city," ...

Sydney,Australia -Australasian Bus & Coach -14 March 2007: -- Sydney Operator Comfort Del Gro/Cabcharge (CDC) is finding demand for seats on its City services is so high that it may have to seek even larger buses for these express runs... In the past three weeks CDC has added 16 buses to its runs... But demand is so great that even articulated buses are not big enough for CDC, though they seat over 60 passengers. The chief executive officer of CDC, Owen Eckford, says he was looking for a bus with about 100 seats, similar to buses in Hong Kong and Singapore. These buses are three axle double deckers...

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BUSES' PURCHASE PROSPECTS

* USA - Legislation would breathe new life into S.C.'s aging school bus fleet
Charleston,SC,USA -The Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington,NC) /The Associated Press -12 Mar 2007: -- For the second time in two years, a bill introduced in the Legislature would require the state Department of Education to create a system to replace South Carolina's aging school bus fleet.The buses that transport the state's public school children are among the oldest - and least safe - in the country, according to a study by The (Charleston) Post and Courier... To that end, Walker, R-Landrum, has introduced legislation that would required the Department of Education to replace one-twelfth of the bus fleet each year, yielding a completely replaced fleet every 12 years... On average, South Carolina's public school students are riding in 14-year-old buses, many with more than 400,000 miles. Nationwide, the average school bus is about nine years old, or five years newer than the average South Carolina bus...

* Dubai - Double-deck buses to ease traffic congestion
Dubai,UAE -Australasian Bus & Coach (Australia) -12 March 2007: -- Public transport in Dubai is being upgraded to entice people to use buses to help ease traffic congestion... the Public Transport Department at the Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) will purchase 620 new buses. The new buses include 300 articulated and 170 double-deck buses... The new buses will join the t fleet this year and 2008 in phases and increase the total number of buses to around 1,200...

* Thailand - Theera axes plan to buy new buses - Government simply cannot afford them
Klong Toey,Bangkok,Thailand -The Bangkok Post, by AMORNRAT MAHITTHIROOK -13 Mar 2007: -- Transport Minister Theera Haocharoen has axed the city bus agency's plan to buy 2,000 new natural gas-fuelled buses, saying the government cannot afford them... During a visit yesterday to the Bangkok Mass Transit Authority (BMTA) head office, Adm Theera said the agency needs to maintain its old buses and modify them to run on gas instead of diesel to cut costs...

* USA - New set of wheels?... Bill would mandate 400 new school buses yearly
Bradenton,FL,USA -The Bradenton Herald -Mar. 13, 2007: -- This week members of the House of Representatives will sketch out their budget and will signal whether the General Assembly is ready to make another major school bus purchase... Rep. Bob Walker, R-Spartanburg, has introduced legislation that would require the Department of Education to replace one-twelfth of the 5,000-bus fleet each year, yielding a completely replaced fleet every 12 years... The state bought 600 buses last year. The $36 million purchase was the first in more than a decade. If the state were to replace one-twelfth of its fleet, it would have to buy about 400 new buses annually... (Photo by GERRY MELENDEZ/THE STATE - Willie Crawford completes a full service checkup on the school bus at the state Department of Education Richland School Bus Maintenance Shop on Monday)

* Canada - 20 new buses coming at cost of $9 million
Sherwood Park,Alberta,Canada -The Sherwood Park News, by Conal MacMillan -March 14, 2007: - Strathcona County will see new low-floor buses on its streets as early as this fall, county administration said after a joint federal-provincial funding announcement last week... The federal and provincial government’s announced that the county will receive $6 million over the next three years to be put toward replacing 20 of the county’s aging buses with the new environmentally friendly, easily accessible buses.... The funding comes from the Canada-Alberta Municipal Rural Infrastructure Fund, which was set up last year to help pay for local projects that are good for the environment...

* Canada - WCV superintendent outlines plan to replace school district's buses
NEWPORT,Canada-The Herkimer Evening Telegram (Herkimer,NY), by KIM DUNNE -March 14, 2007: -- The West Canada Valley School District started a few years ago to replace three or four school buses each year... There are 24 school buses in West Canada Valley's fleet and, according to school Superintendent Ken Slentz, the school is replacing buses 12, 13 and 14 this year...

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Buses World News

31.3.07

Dangerous Driver * USA - Several injured in NJ Transit bus crash

* USA - Ohio gov. to sign bill creating new school bus driver regulations

Safety Check * UK - ‘Shock’ over school buses

Not to Privatize * USA - Southwest Licking Local Schools has decided its busing, will remain public

* USA - Put electronic eyes in school buses, senator says

* USA - AC Transit Purchase of Van Hool Buses Still on Track

DEBATE * USA - Feds may require seat belts on buses

* Fiji - Operators 'ordered to repair buses'

"GREEN" NEWS

Driver Shortage * USA - BYU Graduation Creates School Bus

Bravery Award * Australia - Laura, 16, averts disaster

30.3.07

BUSES' PURCHASE PROSPECTS

* Canada - McGuinty Government Delivers New Buses To Durham Region

Equipment Problems * USA - Delay Plan for Cameras on Buses

28.3.07

Old Buses * UK - Electric Elephants Graveyard

* Philippines - Gunmen seize school bus in Manila, 32 children held

Bus rider ‘scent’ packing * Canada - Seeks apology from city

BUSES' PURCHASE PROSPECTS

Booze buses at dawn * Australia - Police to target hung-over morning drivers

* USA - As Ridership Rises, Long Island Bus System Faces $4 Million Deficit

BUSES' PURCHASE

Watch Program * USA - County School Bus Drivers Certified in

PRODUCTION * Hong Kong/China - Scania double-decker buses going on trial

24.3.07

BUSES' PURCHASE * USA - AC Transit Approves Purchase Of Additional Van Hool Buses

* Hong Kong/China - Lawmakers push for seat belts in buses

"GREEN" NEWS * Canada - Montreal buses to run on biodiesel

DANGEROUS BUSES * Thailand - 30 passengers evacuated in bus fire

Heroes * USA - Students Come To Rescue When Bus Driver Passes Out

Satisfaction * USA - City says more are taking buses

23.3.07

One year free bus * UK - Win a full travel on Oyster card

* UK - Police to patrol buses

State urged * USA - To put buses on the roads

New Buses * USA - Bobcat Tram in process of upgrading to

* USA - Manatee County's two plug-in hybrid buses to cost $450k USD

* Chile - Transantiago Buses bad, Metro not much better

DANGEROUS BUSES

Bus Safety * USA - Congressional call for improved one

BUSES' PURCHASE

Bus Plan * USA - Advocates Push it

Off Road * UK - 'Unsafe' school buses taken

19.3.07

* Argentine - The youngest driver in the world ??? ....

Odd Items * USA - Found on City Trains, Buses

Bus Safety Standards * USA - Little Consistency in

17.3.07

"GREEN NEWS" * Peru - Natural gas buses to enter Lima's public transportation system

Sign Language * UK - Film for London's Buses

TECHNOBUSES * USA - Bay Buses Abound with Wi-Fi

Watch Kids * USA - Some extremists may be driving school buses

BUSES' PURCHASE

Bureaucratic Obstacles * Turkey - Chinese buses banned from traffic

DANGEROUS DRIVERS

15.3.07

COMMENT * USA - Hybrids Rule the Roost

OPINION * Canada - Changing trade patterns point to long-term challenge for trucking

Rules * USA - Sought for bus drivers

Iconic buses * USA - Ready to roll in park again

* India - 1,497 buses were impounded

* USA - Georgia To Add Safety Measures After Crash

Technology for Buses * USA - School buses are going high tech

* Jamaica - 24 New Buses to JUTC

GREEN NEWS * Pakistan - CNG buses on The Mall from 23rd

DANGEROUS DRIVERS

Bus Vs. Cars * USA

COMMENTS * Australia - Promises, promises but is transport important?

MALAYSIA:State to Run City Buses as Privatisation Fails

* Australia - Deckers must return to Sydney?

BUSES' PURCHASE PROSPECTS

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