Ohio schools sorry for movie-shoot bus diversion

Ohio parents who say their children endured long, complicated walks home are panning the disruption of school bus service for a Hollywood movie shoot.

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Athiest bus ads create free speech debate in Iowa

A dispute about bus advertisements seeking to publicize atheist views has touched off a free speech debate after the signs were torn down — then posted again — on the sides of Des Moines city buses.

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13 school buses damaged or destroyed in NJ fire

Thirteen yellow school buses have been damaged or destroyed in a suspicious fire at a New Jersey yard.

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2 dozen children injured when 2 buses crash in DC

Two dozen students are injured after two buses taking children on a school trip crashed in Washington, D.C.

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Police: Argentine soccer fans hijack buses

Fans of an Argentine soccer team were so desperate to get to a game on time that they hijacked two buses and forced the drivers at knifepoint to go faster. Police also said they robbed several passengers.

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Bus travel grows as fuel soars, airfares leap

It's a tale of two cities: Nikita Bernstein, 29, a dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker with a business in Boston, was in need of a cheap way to travel between his two homes. And a place to plug in his laptop, store his bike and stretch his legs along the way.

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San Antonio district debuts special propane buses

A San Antonio-area school district has debuted new classic-yellow school buses that officials say are the first in the nation manufactured to run on propane.

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Jammed transit systems running on fumes

Transportation experts who have pushed mass transit since the 1970s are getting their wish as soaring gas prices persuade Americans to abandon their cars for buses and trains in record numbers. But as the adage says, be careful what you wish for.

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States grapple with fuel costs for school buses

The reality of rising fuel prices cost students in a Tennessee school district their bus ride to school this week on the last day of the year.

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Mexican bus drivers want tips despite harrowing rides

So what if they rage through traffic, cause at least one accident a day and barely stop for passengers. Drivers of Mexico City's rickety old "pesero" buses say they deserve tips for their harrowing rides.

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Mexico City Rolls Out Women-Only Buses

Groping and verbal harassment is an exasperating reality for women using public transportation in this sprawling capital, where 22 million passengers cram onto subways and buses each day. Some men treat women so badly that the subway system has long had ladies-only cars during rush hour, with police segregating the sexes on the platforms.

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Tenn. Schools Told to Make Up 'Gas Days'

If it could've, the state might have paddled a school official in east Tennessee who canceled classes for two days as a way to save money on bus fuel.

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Buses in Pakistan are impossible to miss – bright, loud and colourful, they can be seen across city streets and along highways, usually travelling in an unholy haste. They also tend to be overcrowded, commuters spilling on to rooftops and hanging off the sides.

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Bus service in Östersund in northern Sweden has been disrupted due to an increased in the number of drivers using alcohol-based hand sanitizer.

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Stinky city bus riders soon could get soaked. The Honolulu City Council is considering a bill that would impose up to a $500 fine and/or up to six months in jail for public transit passengers convicted of being too smelly.

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$4oo,000 BUS sits idle in parking lot....Aliens walk the streets

Sherriff Joe Apaio has the luxury bus of all time...his chariot for riot, and rounding up human cattle...or aliens from Mexico who pay no attention to the much sued Sherriff. of Maricopa.

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Oklahoma is getting $22 million in federal recovery money for transit improvements. The U.S. Department of Transportation said Friday that the state transportation department will get $17 million to purchase 138 vans and 108 buses for use throughout the state.

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A tragic Alzheimer's victim died after spending four days on trains and buses trying to get to a hospital appointment.

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The chief executive of leading drugs and humans rights charity Release today accused advertising regulators of censorship after the body's ad campaign was withdrawn from London buses.

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Gothenburg police are hunting for a mystery man who is suspected of cutting the hair of unsuspecting female passengers aboard the city's buses.

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It is technically illegal not to bag Fido's faeces in German cities, but notoriously poor Berlin just hasn't had the resources to enforce fines – much less hire poop scoopers to maintain public areas, Schauffel said.

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Metro will receive about $17.5 million in federal stimulus money to replace old buses with energy-efficient models, upgrade its radio system and make other improvements to the Greater Cincinnati bus system.

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Some would describe it as a traffic nightmare along I-95 in West Haven, Orange and Milford this afternoon. Two coach buses, authorities presume were on their way to Connecticut Casinos, collided around 2:30 PM.

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London's new Routemaster came a step closer today as Boris Johnson unveiled the winning designs for the next generation of the bus.

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Many Americans have abandoned their love of getting behind the wheel during the last year, and opted to hop on buses instead, according to a study released this week.

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At least the U.S. isn't alone when it comes to idiotic government decisions based on undue special interest influence.

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Bendy-buses with the slogan "There's probably no God" could soon be running on the streets of London. The atheist posters are the idea of the British Humanist Association (BHA) and have been supported by prominent atheist Professor Richard Dawkins.

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BRUSSELS — Noise from personal music players is a routine annoyance for travelers on buses, trains and planes.

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This is top architect Sir Norman Foster's design for a possible successor to London's iconic Routemaster bus. The red hop on, hop off double decker comes complete with a glass ceiling and will be unveiled today.

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So maybe it wasn't a surprise that the two buses met up today at a maintenance shop in Nashville. Whatever brought them together, Jeremy Funk, communication director for the Legacy Bus, liked the metaphor:

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The buses were 40 deep on Loyola Street. Around the corner, near the Union Passenger Terminal, thousands of people snaked through a parking lot in a single-file line.

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We could be generating huge amounts of power from sewage. The process is pretty simple — just ferment sewage to produce a fuel called biogas. Biogas is almost entirely methane, and so is natural gas, so the two are essential interchangeable.

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BEIJING - The stadiums were stunning. The buses ran with German precision. The air, if not pristine, proved mostly breathable. The Olympic Green was a triumph of design.

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'At least 20 people were hurt, four of them critically, when a bus crashed Sunday night about 5 miles south of Las Vegas, Nevada, a state trooper said."

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Many of these commuters are flocking to trains, buses and bikes, or telecommuting from home.... Americans drove 9.6 billion fewer miles in May compared with a year earlier, according to a report Monday from the Federal Highway Administration.

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"Two people died in bus explosions during the morning rush hour in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming today, adding to concern about security at the Beijing Olympics next month.

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One commuter route has seen passenger loads more than double in the past couple months.

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