Breaking 49 Killed Continental plane Crash near Buffalo, NY

A Continental plane has crashed into a house in Clarence, New York near Buffalo A news conference is occurring and the report is that 49 passengers have been killed.  Next news conference will be at 4:00...

California Colleges want students to bike to school

Universities in Southern California want their students to bike, carpool, and take more public transit to school, so they are implementing programs to encourage this. With fantastic weather almost the whole year,...

Metrolink Approves Millions For Safety

Unbelievable.  Finally after 25 people are killed, Metrolink approve use of technology that was used back in the 1940's!!  What an absolute joke!"October 26, 2008 (by Otto Smyth) According to reports Metorlink who is facing probable legal suits for wrongful death...

Noriko-san, Intelligent Sleep Mask Delivers Wake-up Call In

" " How often have you slept past your stations on a train journey, only waking to realize, your station crossed an hour ago? I have been a lazy commuter myself, and have gone through this on a number of occasions. I recognize the personal agony and the fellow...

Train engineer texted 22 seconds before LA crash

" LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A Metrolink engineer sent a cell phone text message 22 seconds before his commuter train crashed head-on into a freight train last month, killing 25 people, federal investigators said...

Train collision probe to examine text messages

Authorities in Los Angeles are now looking at the possibility that text messages sent by teenagers to the driver of the commuter train that crashed into a freight train played a role in the accident. Apparently...

Metrolink Engineer May Have Sent Text Message Moments Before Crash

"r 12, 2008CHATSWORTH -- According to preliminary reports, the Metrolink engineer may have been text messaging from the cab of the train using a cellular telephone moments before the devastating crash. The...

Los Angeles Commuter train crash

Los Angeles fire fighters are working to rescue live people and dead bodies from a Metrolink Commuter train which crashed this afternoon in Chatsworth California, a suburb of Los Angeles in the San Fernando...

Life terms for US rail-crash man

"Judges have handed down 11 life terms to a man who parked his car on a Los Angeles railway line and watched as a packed commuter train smashed into it. Eleven people died in the January 2005 crash, and Juan Manuel Alvarez, 29, was convicted of their murders. Judge William...

Youths throw woman on railway line in station no smoking row

More bad behavior by youths in the UK. In thsi instance, two teenagers threw a woman into the railroad tracks for telling them to stop smoking earlier in the week."A female commuter was thrown on to a live railway...

At least 3 dead in explosion aboard Philippine bus

At least three people died on the bus, which was heading to Davao. National police chief Avelino Razon said initial reports put the number of wounded at 10.  "It was an improvised bomb," Rico said. Experts were investigating its composition to help determine who was...

Eight Killed After Bomb Rocks Busy Sri Lankan Train

At least eight people were killed and 72 reported injured after a bomb went off in a packed passenger car in Colombo after three bombs were found and diffused on transit over the weekend.Authorities had been...

Georgia Expands Concealed Carry Laws

Georgia Expands Concealed Carry Laws Update:  July 2, 2008 - Georgia Gun Laws: Showdown at Atlanta Airport " There’s a gun fight coming to a head in Atlanta, Georgia and its getting ugly. Its all about an...

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The Sky Commuter was sold on eBay for $131,700.""

Amtrak Will Screen Passengers' Bags

Amtrak will start randomly screening passengers' carry-on bags this week in a new security push that includes officers with automatic weapons and bomb-sniffing dogs patrolling platforms and trains.The Associated...

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