Public transportation News
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A charter bus and a tourist vehicle collided in Seattle, Washington, resulting in several deaths and numerous injuries, including several critical.
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The one million more humans expected to become part of the Greater Vancouver metro area in the next 25 to 30 years have been consigned to transit chaos by those living there now. That is, in effect, the result we learned of in the transit vote.
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Conakry -
On Friday, health authorities in Guinea reported 27 new cases of Ebola in the West African country. The country's latest Ebola figures from the World Health Organization (WHO) are the highest in more than a month.
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Santa Clara -
It's been a long time since a new football stadium opened in the great state of California.
The year was 1967, the city was San Diego and the team was the San Diego "Super" Chargers.
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San Francisco -
A worker sickout delayed San Francisco's morning and evening commutes for a second day Tuesday as thousands of transit employees stayed home to protest a controversial contract provision.
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Like common sense, common courtesy often isn't. Around the time I became old enough to be called "ma'am" by strangers, I started to notice that I was not being given the respect I expected on the bus.
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Paris -
Paris and areas of northern France have seen pollution levels so high that politicians are stepping in to do something about it. This weekend, Paris' public transportation, as well as bike and car sharing programs, will be free.
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An altercation at a subway terminal causes one man to stun another man with a wrestling power bomb. In the video, a uniformed officer or a transit worker on the job simply watches the altercation take place.
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New York -
Erica Menendez, 31, is being held in custody for the subway shove death of 46-year-old Sunando Sen. She is being charged with second-degree murder as a hate-related crime.
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New York -
The victim in last night's subway shove death in Queens, New York has been identified as Indian immigrant Sunando Sen. Sen's death makes it the second NYC subway shove death to happen in December.
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Lisbon -
Because of efforts by the Portuguese Government to downsize the public transport system in that country, workers began a 24 hour strike, just prior to midnight on Wednesday 1 February 2012.
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With Detroit's automotive manufacturing in a bottomless hole and 2008's peek at where U.S. gasoline prices can return in the future, a new infrastructure funding debate emerges in the face of a new report that shows mass-transit up 4 per cent nationally.
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After a week of trial runs, Mexico City's transportation authority, the RTP, formally launched a public transit program on January 21 to exclude men from riding certain city buses designated as women-only.
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Cool, I never knew they had this... It will be nice when they get all the major cities implemented...
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Public transportation Image
The Trolley enters one of the stations enroute to Uptown Charlotte.
The Bland Street Station for both the Trolley and the Blue Line.
A Toronto Transit Commission bus Secondarywaltz
The trolley is entering the Charlotte Conference Center in Uptown Charlotte. The Trolley passes straight through the inside of the building.
The Tremont station is the south-end station for the trolley line.
TRANSPORTATION: A modern San Francisco streetcar passes AT&T Park, home of the San Francsico Giants baseball team, in 2006. US Department of Transportation/Wikimedia Commons
A view from inside the trolley going towards Uptown Charlotte heading towards the convention center and towards the Westin Hotel
The Tolley and Cats Light Rail System passes right by a Charlotte landmark, Price's Chicken Coop off of Camden Street.
The manual brake wheel inside one of the CATS trolleys.
The inside of the trolley at the South-end depot.
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