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Newsby StaffApril 26, 2011

Argentina bus system only hires female drivers

City service officials in a town near Buenos Aires claim that female drivers are safer, and more suited to transporting frail or very young passengers.

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Newsby StaffApril 25, 2011

Duke University to reduce parking permits

Currently issues around 27,000 parking permits per year with approximately 1,300 members of the community traveling to campus by riding a bus, sharing a ride or biking.

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Newsby StaffApril 25, 2011

Bus service to U. of Wis. housing to be slashed

The Madison Metro Transit Planning Department, university transportation planning officials and students have been meeting since late fall to redraw the routes.

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Newsby StaffApril 25, 2011

Oklahoma State dedicates CNG fueling station

The university, which currently has 18 CNG buses, plans to have 90 CNG vehicles by the end of 2011.

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Newsby StaffApril 21, 2011

Valley Metro mobility center wins innovation award

A full-size bus and bus shelter are part of the indoor landscape, as well as varied pavement and ground applications. Input on the development of the Mobility Center was considered by a paratransit technical advisory committee and a regional paratransit stakeholders group.

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Newsby StaffApril 21, 2011

Mass. maintenance, ops facility awarded $39M

The new building will replace WRTA's current facility, a 77-year-old "trolley barn" that was converted to maintain and operate buses in the 1940s when the trolleys were phased out.

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Newsby StaffApril 21, 2011

New buses being built for presidential campaign

The U.S. Secret Service will take delivery next month of two campaign-style buses to provide heightened security for the President on bus tours and rural trips during the 2012 campaign.

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Newsby StaffApril 20, 2011

Creative Bus Sales acquires Fla.’s Transit Plus

The company is a major provider of paratransit buses as well as transit agencies and private operators throughout Florida. Transit Plus is a family owned company with a long history of sales and service in the transit and shuttle markets.

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Newsby StaffApril 20, 2011

Mich. seniors protest bus route changes

In opposition to cuts in door-to-door bus service to senior complexes, a senior citizen has gathered 100 signatures on a petition to send to Metro Transit.

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Newsby StaffApril 19, 2011

ABA, OMCA hold first joint tour operator summit

The Tour Operator Summit, held on March 30 and 31 in Verona, N.Y., featured educational seminars, business sessions, networking events, and a mini-trade show. Forty-five bus and tour operator and 77 tour supplier members of both organizations from both sides of the border attended the event.

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