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08/11/2008

Bus Bench Service Alerts. 08-11.

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Black children on busses get a police escort to school. 1974. Boston.

 

Bus Bench Service Alerts for August 11, 2008. News in late aughts format.

Car Buster has a radio station. Contribute, we are.
Car Busters. August.

A highway designed to make a more pricey to drive, it’s called “congestion pricing.” How about designing public transit to make it easier to use and how about designing the streets to make it easier and safer to walk, well being an asshole is easier.
Biz Journal Florida/ 08-11

The government (Massachusetts Transit Authority) says no to learning, cancels Subway Hack presentation by MIT students.
Bit Tech/08-11

The rails running after 3am? It could happen this Xmas folks, you just have to believe. Every time a rail crossing dings an angel gets her wings.
Blogdowntown/ 08-08

You want to look cute while riding a bike. Shelly will show you how. I’m ordering that helmet!!!!
Riding Pretty Blog

Is Citibank going down? I don’t know, but it seems like they have some big problems. The Olympics is cool, but the existence of my checking account means more to me right now.
WSJ/ 8-06

Approval for the first corporate (Blue Fire) ethanol plant has been granted in Lancaster.
AP/ July

Remember Nekedia Cato she was riding her bike and a guy tried to run her down, because his wife had just cheated on him with a black guy, well that guy Thomas Cosby is being charged with a hate crime.  In true hippie black girl form Cato said to tell Cosby she forgives him.
Orlando Sentinel/ 08-01

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I must add to the Boston MTA/"Subway Hack" bit (above) that Metro L.A. is going the same way with respect to the Homeland Security funding and "smart"card aspects of this case. More details of the east coast imboglio can be found here:
http://www-tech.mit.edu/V128/N30/subway/
and here:
http://gizmodo.com/5035478/mit-student-hackers-revealing-how-to-get-free-subway-rides-is-national-security-threat

Posted by: BusTard | 08/11/2008 at 10:13 AM

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