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All aboard the New Bus for London - The Guardian

The Guardian

All aboard the New Bus for London
The Guardian
The 28 buses are the first instalment of 600 to be delivered over the next three years ? the culmination of Johnson's rallying cry in 2007. As a putative Conservative challenger to Ken Livingstone, he tapped into nostalgia for the Routemaster for his ...


How fast are Boston's buses? Journey speeds visualised in near real time - The Guardian

How fast are Boston's buses? Journey speeds visualised in near real time
The Guardian
Cartographer Andy Woodruff has made a stylised map of bus speeds in Boston, MA, using GPS data from the Massachusetts Bay Transport Authority and NextBus. Taking inspiration from Eric Fischer's transport maps, Woodruff has plotted routes using straight ...


Lothian Buses boss gets 26% pay rise - Scotsman

Scotsman

Lothian Buses boss gets 26% pay rise
Scotsman
Lothian Buses extended services in East Lothian and Midlothian after other operators scaled back. Mr Walton said the launch of the tram line, expected next year, would ?cannibalise? bus passengers, but dividends to the council ? some £3m last year ...


Bus drivers get 2% raise as boss pockets £265k - Scotsman

Scotsman

Bus drivers get 2% raise as boss pockets £265k
Scotsman
?We know Lothian Buses is a commercial operation, but it is still in public ownership and when we have all the austerity cuts and people are paying the price, some of them with a wage freeze, this kind of rise for chief executives is absolutely ...

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Erratic bus service, hitch-hiking are students' bane - The Hindu

The Hindu

Erratic bus service, hitch-hiking are students' bane
The Hindu
For most students of Vijayaraghunathapuram, hitchhiking to school is almost a routine as they have to contend with inadequate town bus services and unwilling mofussil bus crew every day. The nearest school for the hamlet is a middle school at ...
School vehicles under harsh scrutinyDeccan Chronicle

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1000 school, college buses yet to obtain fitness papers - The Hindu

The Hindu

1000 school, college buses yet to obtain fitness papers
The Hindu
About 300 buses belonging to various schools and colleges in Hyderabad and over 700 in Ranga Reddy district are yet to obtain the mandatory fitness certificate from the Transport Department, though it has been almost a week since the fresh academic ...


Shake-up on school buses causes alarm in West Oxfordshire - Witney Gazette

Witney Gazette

Shake-up on school buses causes alarm in West Oxfordshire
Witney Gazette
It is also considering raising the concessionary bus charges to £541.20 per year ? or £180.40 per two terms ? for students who live more than three miles from their school who do not qualify for free school transport. The current charge is £164.00 per ...
Oxfordshire school bus charges criticised by headBBC News

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We need first aid on buses - This is Staffordshire

We need first aid on buses
This is Staffordshire
PLEASE can anyone give me the answer as to why there is no first aid on some of our local buses? On May 14, I had an accident getting on a bus with three steps. My foot slipped on the second step and I cut my right leg very badly. Someone asked the ...


Attackers torch buses at Venezuela university - Salon

Attackers torch buses at Venezuela university
Salon
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) ? A group of masked assailants has attacked a leading university in the Venezuelan capital, torching two buses and seriously damaging its rectory building. Amalio Belmonte is secretary-general of the Central University of ...


Bus sex attacker captured on CCTV - Birmingham Mail

Birmingham Mail

Bus sex attacker captured on CCTV
Birmingham Mail
Police investigating two attacks on buses in Walsall have today (18 June) released three new CCTV images of the suspect in a bid to identify him. The latest pictures were taken from onboard bus cameras after a second woman came forward on Wednesday, ...

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