Bus Stops - June 14

Buses leave cars in the dust

Feds want authority to randomly inspect tour buses

School Bus Vandalism Closes Wolcott Schools 

Bus driver gets 2.5 years for sexual assault

Party bus shooting might have stemmed from strip club dispute

Bus offers 30-minute breast exams for poor, uninsured or busy women

Tour bus company shut down after driver let SIX people travel in luggage compartment

Jon Stewart Compares Sarah Palin Bus Tour Video To An Ad For Herpes Medication (Follow Up)

£110,000 bus stolen and torched after joyride ________________________________________________________

TODAY IN BUS HISTORY

1954 - striking bus drivers today deferred action on a final limited" wage offer by the Harrisburg Railways Co. pending the outcome of a company meeting with a citizens group seeking means to end an 86-day old wage strike.
1986 - an intercity bus operated by Trailways Lines, Inc., collided with a truck operated by Rising Fast Trucking Company on Interstate Highway 40 near Brinkley, Arkansas. The busdriver and 27 bus passengers sustained injuries ranging in severity from minor to serious.
1994 - the MTA (Metro Transit Authority) board voted to raise the bus fare from $1.10 to $1.35, a 23 percent hike; eliminate the $42 pass altogether; and reduce bus service on several lines. The board argued that the fare increases and service cuts would save the MTA $32 million per year out of a total budget of $2.9 billion. Los Angeles Times reporter Bill Boyarsky, who attended the meeting, wrote a scathing critique of the MTA board.
2007 - Ashling McVeigh, deceased, was the youngest in a group of eight teenagers who took a bus from Belfast to Bundoran on 14 July 2007. They had brought a large amount of alcohol with them and booked a holiday flat in Ballintra. The group started drinking when they arrived in the flat around 1pm. Ashling was drinking cider and champagne and took ecstasy tablets, the inquest was told. 

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BUS QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” (Oprah Winfrey)