Article: Saving costs, saving lives: diminishing bus fires.(Maintenance Matters)

Article: Kurdistan bus transportation fades away.
The Kurdish Globe (Erbil, Iraq);  December 12, 2009 ;     700+ words ...Summary: Poor bus services have taxis leaving buses in the dust. The government ... costs $40,000. Many bus drivers, in particularly those who have old buses, claim that they are ... company could bring new buses in, run the bus transportation, and ...

Article: Bus company is finally sold off; Council-owned firm at ...
Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  June 19, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... which operates Chester Bus services. The deal remains ... The company said: "Buses will remain operated by ... ordination with its existing bus services in Chester ... Britain's largest bus operator running more than one in five of all local buses. The company already ...

Article: Bus boss on his bike.(News)
South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales);  November 15, 2001 ;     590 words ... ... calling for more priority bus lanes so that buses are a quicker alternative ... bus lanes and in front of bus stops. "Our low floor buses are designed so that they ... had many complaints that buses can't get close to some bus stops because cars are ...

Article: Bus racks are giving bikers a leg up; CDTA outfits all ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  August 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... cyclists to ride the bus, the authority has completed ... its full-size route buses. Authority officials ... the Catch a Bikeable Bus program began in 2000 ... stops and still not see a bus with a rack." Making sure all buses have racks is expected ...

Article: Bus dilemma: Too few riders, too few routes
Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL);  October 20, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... do." Virginia Foster drives a Pace bus in Aurora each day and thinks the city ... largest city in Illinois, and we stop buses at 6:15 p.m.," she said. "We ... about possible cuts on seven Aurora bus lines the Pace board is considering ...

Reference Information: Bus Drivers
Occupational Outlook Handbook;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... hundreds of miles apart. Local-transit bus drivers may make several trips each ... every few blocks. Local-transit bus drivers submit daily trip reports with ... classroom assistants when not driving buses. Bus drivers must be alert in order to prevent ...

Article: Bus driver suspended for rules violation.(News)
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  March 14, 2002 ;     656 words ... ... Herald Staff Writer Responsibility for a Kildeer Countryside School District 96 school bus incident involving an unauthorized person boarding a bus has shifted to the bus driver. The bus driver, a Laidlaw Transit employee, has been suspended without ...