Petition Tag - bus

The mission behind this petition is to make Jackson Hole a safer and more open community. Very simple in its intention, the Late Night Transportation Crusade is an acknowledgement of a voiced need from the residents, visitors and seasonal friends of this area.

Whether you vacation or live, ski or snowboard, farm or hunt, dance or run, paint or sing in Jackson, you have been a part of this community and have experienced that this place takes care of its own.

We collectively want this to be a safe, beautiful and enjoyable place to live and visit; a socially responsible community that comes together to support each other when the situation calls for it. This is a moment for us to shine, to say we need and want Late Night Transportation.

We want less impaired driving, fewer DUI arrests, less animals killed on the road, our tourists to get downtown and our locals to Teton Village, our employees to have a ride and our friends and visitors to get home safe. We want to work hard, play hard and experience all of Jackson—and be safe getting home.

There are models for Safe Ride Programs all over the United States and the intended outcome of this petition is to generate ideas for the model that fits Jackson best, and to establish a non-profit for its implementation. The Crusade’s Facebook page, facebook.com/JH.Latenight, will act as a forum for research and discussion and you are invited to visit and share your ideas, thoughts, concerns and comments.

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Transit drivers in Hamilton have told me many passengers experience problems with the Presto pass. One Presto worker threatened to revoke my monthly pass mid-month if a questionable $2.75 fare indicated by Presto was not paid.

As Toronto is / will be also implementing the Presto pass system, and we face an election October 6 in Ontario, I felt this a good time to question the accuracy of Presto passenger records from the pass, and the arrogance of workers and administrators of Presto.

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Since, 2009, Katya, a 36-year-old bear who performed during the 1980 Moscow Olympics has been kept with other retired circus animals in a rusty old bus parked on the outskirts of St. Petersburg.

Animal rights activists in Russia say they receive only minimal care in their cramped and stinking cages.
The aging bear spends the long hours jumping up and down in her cage and trying to crack the rusty metal railings with her chipped teeth.

"They can't move normally and start going crazy," Zoya Afanasyeva of the Vita animal rights group said as she stood by Katya's sweltering bus on a hot summer day. “"Apparently they are being taken care of, but not more often than once a day, and this care is perfunctory because the smell here in the parking lot is unbearable"

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As of August1, 2011, Smart is going to be charging Personal Care Assistance to ride the smart bus!

This would mean that someone that requires an assistant would still be able to pay a dollar each way because of their special fair, but their assistant would be paying 4 Dollars each way.

Many people with disabilities have to be taught how to ride the smart bus, and they are taught by a mobility teacher throughout the years of Kindergarten through twelfth grade. There are a lot of mobility teachers, and they each have many students that they have to teach. The company that the mobility teachers work for, for example, the MISD, has to pay a dollar each way for each student that is taken on a bus trip, and now they will have to pay 4 dollars each way for the mobility teacher.

This could eventually become impossible with all of the budget cuts! There will be people not getting taught how to ride the smart bus, and when they are older, and they have to go somewhere like a job, and no one is available to take them, they won’t know what to do!

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Please can we get a bus from Johannesburg to Sparton kempton park. We are suffering because we have no alternative transport other than Taxis which are very expensive and we don't afford it. Help us.

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Support our campaign now by signing this petition. See details at www.t2kbus.com.

Thank you.

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OC Transpo is trying to approve their proposed business plan,
which would be implemented in September 2011. One of the
routes under review for consolidation to reduce duplication is
route 65, a bus servicing North Kanta. If route 65 is
removed, its usual passengers would be forced to take one of
two buses, depending on their location, the 60 and 68, both
of which are always at maximum capacity by the time they
reach stops accessible to the passengers of the 65.

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Tuesday 8th March 2011 ...

The new service 32 along Walsall Rd/ Norton Green Lane/ Chapel St-Church Rd does not start until 8.44am, and several people have complained that this is too late for those commuting to work and school.

This matter has been raised with the Parish Council, Arriva and Staffordshire County Council.

If this affects you, please let the county council and Arriva know about your circumstances. If they know what people want and need, they can respond!

TUESDAY 1st March 2011 ... Update ...

Arriva confirm -

Mon to Sat, service 32
Brownhills to Rugeley (to Cannock)
Calling at the stop at Norton Green Lane/ Chapel St from 8.45 (9.48 Sat) half hourly until 5.40 (5.10 Sat)

Rugeley to Brownhills (from Cannock)

Calling at the stop on Norton Green Lane/ Chapel St from 8.49 half hourly until 5.19, Mon to Sat

SUNDAYS, service 33
hourly

This service has been reinstated on a 'use it, or lose it' basis, so it is important that we all use this bus!

There are several commuters and students who will find that the arrangements above start too late and finish too early to be effective for their daily commute, and will either have to walk to the library for the 33, or seek alternative arrangements.

If you are one of these people, I suggest you write to Staffordshire County Council and Arriva at the addresses below and hopefully they will look at including an earlier and later service at the next review.

The new service 62 beginning shortly operated by Heartland Buses will NOT be running along the Walsall Rd/ Norton Green Lane/ Chapel St-Church Rd triangle.

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SUNDAY 27th Feb ...

The 33 has been running along Norton Green Lane/ Chapel St every hour, today, Sunday. Not sure if the 33 will run every Sunday, or just for this week.

There is also some talk about a service 62, operated by Heartlands bus company, but we don't have any more information yet.

UPDATE !! GOOD NEWS !!
Please see below, taken from Arriva's website Friday 25th 2011.

"Following talks today with Staffordshire County Council, Arriva Midlands is pleased to announce the reintroduction of buses to an area of Norton Canes that was to lose its links to Brownhills, Cannock, Hednesford and Rugeley from Saturday 26 February 2011.

Service 32 will be diverted in Norton Canes to serve Chapel Street, Norton Green Lane and Walsall Road to and from Brownhills, Cannock, Hednesford and Rugeley from Saturday 26 February 2011.

Keith Myatt, communications manager for Arriva Midlands, said: 'The decision to reintroduce buses to the Chapel Lane and Norton Green Lane areas of Norton Canes shows that Arriva has listened to its customers concerns and is pleased to meet the requests.'

SOB 33 NC would like to thank Arriva and Staffordshire County Council for their response, as well as Norton Canes Parish Council, Linda Florence, Cllr Beddows and MP Aidan Burley for their efforts to protect our bus service. Finally to all those who supported the campaign, collected signatures and put up posters.

Bus times are on the Arriva website, but as a rough guide, they will be running through our part of the village:
To Walsall -
10 and 40 mins past the hour from 8.40 until 5.10

To Cannock and Rugeley -
10 and 35 mins past the hour from 8.35 until 5.10 (and 5.40 weekdays)

(edited 27.02.2011) SERVICE 32 ON SUNDAYS ... PLEASE SEE ABOVE...

Arriva Customer Services, FREEPOST ANG 7624, Luton
Bedfordshire. LU4 8BR

Staffordshire County Council:

Public Transport, Staffs County Council, County Buildings
Martin Street, Stafford. ST16 2LR

publictransport@staffordshire.gov.uk

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Essex County Council has announced to parents that it is to make it's school bus escorts redundant from Easter 2011.

It's decision raises many safety concerns with the County's parents and we are urging them to reverse their decision.

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The Upper Grand District School Board has chosen Waverley Drive Public School to be the home of English-track King George Public School students while the new King George school is being built.

Waverley is located several kilometres from the King George site and the Board is expecting students to walk up to 45 minutes to and from school along and across busy roads, including arterial roads such as Eramosa and Speedvale.

However, due to safety concerns, it is unlikely that many students will actually walk. Many parents will be forced to drive their child to school, causing traffic congestion and safety concerns at Waverley. Parents unable to drive their child may send their child to school on a City bus, but some parents will be unable to afford the cost - more than $600 for the school year.

Parents choose where to live based upon their personal perception of their child's safety when walking to school, and affordability if their child needs to take a City bus. It is unfair for the Board to impose new conditions on the families affected by their transition project. Such Board initiatives should be designed to avoid unnecessary disruption to families, and potential danger to students.

A solution discussed among parents has students continuing to walk to and from a site near King George, and the Board providing a quick 'shuttle' bus between King George and Waverley.

This solution allows the healthy walking culture at schools such as Laurine Avenue and Ottawa Crescent Public Schools to continue, while providing safe transportation to Waverley.

The Board's King George transition project has a budget near $9 million. Most parents of students walking to and from King George have subsidized the busing of students at other schools for many years. Now students in the King George area need busing - for one school year - and parents are being told the well is dry. Surely the board can find the funds to provide shuttle busing to and from Waverley while a new King George Public School is built.

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Improvement of Murray Bridge Public Transport

Murray Bridge is a growing city with a current population of approximately 18-20,000 (2010). Around 2005 the town’s regular bus service was decommissioned and replaced with a ‘Dial-A-Ride’ service, which sparked controversy right across the city.

The old regular service used to run three times a day and had four different loops. Which connected the northern, western and southern suburbs to the city centre. The current ‘Dial-A-Ride’ service, leaves the main shopping centre every hour, and can take passengers right to their doorstep. The service takes an hour’s break for lunch. Both services only operate on weekdays from 8am until 4pm, and charge non-metropolitan fares.

2010 has seen some significant changes to Murray Bridge: the commencement for construction of a new large shopping mall (which will be completed towards then end of 2011), the agreement to expand the current shopping mall, rapid expansion of both inner and outer suburbs, and the commencement for construction of a new suburb development with a new multi-million dollar equine and racing facility to be included.

This has excited citizens, new opportunities, education, entertainment, and maybe a new face to Murray Bridge. But one thing is still missing, the development of a better public transport service.

Murray Bridge’s Inter-city and Regional Public Transport service isn’t any better. Murray Bridge is approximately 76km away from South Australia’s capitol, Adelaide. The inter-city service to commute citizens between the cities has seen some improvement but is still lacking so much. The cost for a High-school student to travel from Murray Bridge to Adelaide is $10.00 one way. That is way to expensive, and is even more expensive for a regular fare. Someone needing to regularly travel into the capitol is going to have to save a lot of his or her income, just for a bus ride.

Adelaide and surrounds are seeing improvements with the service provided, but what about Murray Bridge?

The national Melbourne to Adelaide railway line runs through Murray Bridge, and the city has its own railway station. In fact, include the outer suburbs of Murray Bridge; there are around 3-4 stations (Kanchina, Murray Bridge City, Rabilla and Monteith). The outer suburb stations are no longer in use, after the decommissioning of the regular country train services, back in the later years of the 20th Century.

The cost for a student to travel on the “Overland” train bound for Adelaide is $15 from Murray Bridge. That is $5.30 difference, from a luxury train to a regular bus. Something really needs to be done.

Bus stops are dotted across the city, but are no longer in use, citizens have to walk, and some have to walk great distances just to get their daily needs. I believe I do not stand alone with this topic, I have personally asked various citizens around the city, and the majority agrees.

I have asked the council numerous times about this matter, but I am given the same answer. “That they are working with the State Government on finding a solution.” Clearly, no solution has been found.

Murray Bridge needs a new service, and needs one now.

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Hey all,

We are a group of ANU university students, and as a born and bred Canberran, I’ve always had trouble with the Action Bus system. I have a hard time finding out where the stops are, the bus website is really hard to use on the go, and judging from the posts already made regarding this, I decided to go ahead and implement a mobile application for Action.

Our ideas so far involve a live-bus positioning so that you know where the bus is along its route, telling you the closest bus stop along with the times, scheduling a trip, alarms and anything people can suggest.

We developed a prototype with dummy data, and met up with Action to show them our work so far, and to try and get the data needed to get it working perfectly and accurately.

We were unfortunately told that while Action already has all the compiled Google Transit Feed data, they cannot provide us with anything due to the politics and bureaucracy involved

We want to develop our application for Android, iPhone, and even Blackberries, but we cant until we get the data and Action’s help.

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Castleford's long-awaited £14.5m bus and rail interchange could fall victim to government spending cuts.

The Department for Transport is due to make a decision on whether to provide funding for the transport hub later this month,

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After seeing our own children targeted by their bus driver, when no other adult or teacher has ever had a complaint on them, and then having one of them get suspended off the bus for "playing" and hearing him deny it, as his parents, we went to defend him at the school, and the administrative office only to be told nothing could be done.

It was his word against the bus driver's. Cameras on the bus would ensure the child and the bus driver from having to defend their own word. It would also keep the bus driver from feeling he/she has to constantly keep their eyes on the children while driving to make sure they are behaving rather than keeping his eyes on the road. Which in my opinion is a safety hazard.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5OoWQaWeRs - Visit this web address and see what happens when a school bus rolls over on its side with a bus load of children. This is unacceptable.

Our children should be in seat belts on the bus to protect them from getting hurt or killed.

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Since Safer Communities Alliance was first formed, the concept of a late night transport system from the Coolangatta entertainment district to Tweed suburbs has been considered a necessity and a priority.

We have heard shocking stories of the extremes that young people will go to in order to get home from Coolangatta after the last bus has ran at 11pm. Extremes such as drunk driving, hitch hiking and designated drivers carrying as many as 10 people in one car.

We have also heard from residents other than the youth, who would like to be able to have a night out in Coolangatta without the huge expense or headache of finding a way home late at night.

As Coolangatta is the closest entertainment district for most Tweed residents we believe this issue needs to be addressed.

Gold Coast City Council has announced a trial late night bus service, funded by Gold Coast ratepayers. The service is a 12 month trial and will run every Friday and Saturday evening. The bus will depart from Coolangatta every hour at 12.15am, 1.15am, 2.15am & 3.15am. The cost will be a very affordable $3.90 or $2.43 on a Go Card. The bus will travel through Tweed, Banora, Chinderah and cease at Kingscliff. There will be security accompanying all services.

We believe that the burden of funding this project should be shared by Tweed Shire Council, who have at this stage offered no assistance or interest in the project.

We also believe that for the project to be truly effective, the service should run through to Pottsville to service residents who are most isolated from the entertainment district.

This project stands to benefit not just young people who want to party, but also adults who would like to enjoy the entertainment precinct of Coolangatta. This service could also benefit young people under 18 who simply want to see a late movie and would ensure them a safe trip home. And last but not least, this project will help to move people out of Coolangatta quickly and safely, preventing, we believe, situations from developing and escalating that are common when a large number of people fuelled by alcohol are forced to linger in one place.

So please support us in supporting Tweed residents.

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There is currently no bus route to the Bryngwyn Village Gorseinon or the Canolfan Gorseinon Centre to provide for local residents' needs.

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Northamptonshire County Council are looking to reduce the frequency of the 499/508 Evenley to Banbury direct service from 2 hours to every 4 hours.

• This service is vital to our village community allowing people direct access to Banbury (our nearest major conurbation).

• Reduction in the frequency to every 4 hours would render the service useless for shopping trips or other administrative activities in Banbury, as travellers would have to wait a considerable time to return.

• We believe this is just the start of a process to wind down the service and close it completely leaving only services from Brackley as the only option.

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MTA Long Island Bus N65 is school day service, which only operates peak direction between East Rockaway & Uniondale.

Toward Sacred Heart Academy in morning, and return trip to East Rockaway in PM Afternoon.

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According to information provided by CCISD, there will no longer be bus service for children living within 2 miles of Bauerschlag and Ross Elementary starting in Fall of 2010. It is further understood that the reasoning behind this change is due largely in part to the $4m budget deficit.

CCISD has elected to help cut that deficit by removing bus services and therefore creating a safety issue for all students living in this 2 mile area. Though the state does not require any school district to provide bus service under 2 miles, we find that requiring children to walk this distance is unsafe because of the high traffic volume in the area, the lack of available sidewalks in many neighborhoods, the high number of registered sex offenders living in the area and the growing crime rate across the city and area.

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The Waiting Room at Yeovil Bus Station was closed several years ago. The space remains locked and empty because no-one has the will to face the problems of re-opening it.

The Travel Shop was staffed by FirstBus until January 2008, and is now an unstaffed space with a few timetables. The bus companies and taxi companies have offered to staff it, but so far no-one has brought them together to make it happen.

The travelling public, and especially the disabled, need a waiting room, and support from people who can provide information about times and fares, and also information during periods of disruption.

This petition calls on the operators, South Somerset District Council (who own the land) and Somerset County Council (who are responsible for providing suitable local public transport facilities) to get together and resolve these problems.

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Despite the District Council getting back some of our money from Icelandic Banks, the Tories still have not reinstated the use of concessionary bus passes before 9.30 am.

18,500 people in Wyre Forest are still suffering from this savage Tory/Liberal cut.

Please make sure that you sign our petition for restoration of the use of concessionary bus passes during peak hours.

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I am one of the many people who take the bus route 50 every morning to work and every evening home from work. It has recently come to my attention that this bus route is being cancelled as of next week.

This has come as a bit of a surprise to me seeing as there are several times this bus runs in the morning and in the afternoon and is always considerable if not over filled with people. This is the only bus on route in our area that goes straight downtown, and the only change I would have expected OC transpo to make would be to put more buses on this popular route, or to put larger buses on this route.

Therefore I have taken it upon myself to start a petition in order to keep route 50 on the transit system until proven to no longer be needed, the time for that is most certainly not now. If you are one of the many people who rely on this transit route on a daily basis, please sign this petition in order to keep it from being cancelled. Thank You!

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We are Bradford People First a self advocacy group, run by and for people with a Learning disability.

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The RTC says they don't have the funds to put on new bus routes to service the southwest of Las Vegas. They have plenty of coverage for downtown and the Las vegas strip but the people on the otherside of the 215 have no bus service and there are plenty of residence and businesses that rely on public transportation because of rising fuel costs.

This would promote better air quality and help people to get jobs or to get to there jobs and people who are disable will be able to get around all of Las Vegas.

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The Maricopa city council voted 4-3 Tuesday August 18, 2009 to end the city’s year-old bus program. The decision to end the service comes as a shock because the city had recently been awarded $750,000 in federal stimulus funds to relocate the current park and ride location and purchase a 30-passenger bus for the service, the first the city would have owned.

Currently the city contracts through All Aboard America to provide three buses and drivers to operate the service. The monies to fund the program come from a federal grant that provides more than 90 percent of the $786,906 required to fund the service.

In its first year of operation the MaX program exceeded rider ship goals set forth by city leaders and was named one of the top five performing transit services receiving federal funding in the state. Attaining those goals put Maricopa in line to reduce its financial match this upcoming cycle from $251,000 to $226,000.

Despite the rider ship success, city council voted to end the program without giving it a fair evaluation, causing the city to add at least 100 more cars to the already congested 347 route.

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I believe that there should be a TfL extension into the surrounding areas of Greater London, this includes Hatfield, Welwyn Garden City, Cheshunt, London Colney etc. This doesn't have to include the whole transport network, but it would be excellent if surrounding areas could at least have the London Bus service with oyster readers.

This would ideally increase money for TfL and it'd really create more commuter links into London and be more affordable. We may have standard train services but they only run every 30 minutes, sometimes an hour, and I believe that a more efficient and faster service would be favoured!

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Pinellas County School Board and Transportation require children to walk up to 2 miles to their bus stop on dangerous roads by known predators. There are over 300 missing children in the State of Florida.

Children ages 9 through 16 walking alone are the prey of choice for sexual predators. Even with Safety Training children are abducted. Most employers will not let parents off of work to retrieve their children from these bus stops. Let's keep our children safe!

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The City of Orillia has recently made significant improvements to its public transit system, yet its hours of operation - with no evening service - continue to be a great problem for Orillia's growing population of college and university students.

Transit currently finishes at 6:45 p.m., leaving students who have evening classes (usually finishing at 10:00p.m.) stranded at school, and unable to use transit to get home.

Orillia has two institutions of higher learning, and yet does not provide the type of transit service that college and university students require - restricting which classes they choose to take, where they live, and what part time jobs and volunteer opportunities they are able to take.

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Please send a copy of this on your letter head if available to your local Senator and Congressman and delete this sentence. 1/2

AMBERTRAX
REAUTHORIZATION PETITION

A blind spot exists in law enforcements ability to protect our school children / grandchildren from registered sex offenders, whose void is about to get much bigger unless confronted, assigned our symbiotic mandates and a federal oversight program and support is passed into law.

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