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31. Pinellas County School Bus Routes: Keep our Children Safe 
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!
32. Public Transit for College & University students in Orillia, Ontario
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.
33. Child Sex Offender Protection: Ambertrax
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.
Increase Metro Bus Routes - Lower North Shore to Inner West. There is NO bus route from Lane Cove through to CBD via Victoria Road across Anzac Bridge - without having to catch at least 2-3 buses!!!!
A route exists to Drummoyne which runs limited services. For the community at Lane Cove means you actually have to get off at Drummoyne to catch another bus to go approx 800metres to Birkenhead Point! additional 800metres to Balmain - Not at all cost effective or efficient.
This new route would enable streamlined access to points: Drummoyne, Birkenhead, Rozelle, Balmain, Pyrmont and Town Hall Station.
This trip by car is under 10mins - by public transport over 2hours!!! Has anyone noticed the heavy traffic through Drummoye through Burns Bay Road travelling those routes??
35. Better Traffic Safety in the Philippines
On October 21, 2008, at around 3:16 AM, an eye doctor (whose name was Francisco Sarabia) was killed and three other persons were injured in a road accident along Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA). The optometrist and his passenger were about to exit their Mercedes-Benz (plate number NFH-602) when a Joanna Jesh bus (plate number TYG-660) collided with that car.
This petition is dedicated in memoriam to Francisco Sarabia.
I hope that me and my countrymen would be showing concern for traffic safety.
36. Return to A5 Watling Street Bus Service
The former bus service that used to run down watling street, wilnecote, Tamworth known as the old A5 has now stopped leaving residents without a bus service along this route.
Local Resident Michael Hunter has got a petition together to ask local bus firm Arriva if they will consider providing a bus service along the Old A5 in light of the public need for a service here.
37. Against The New Chatham Transit Bus Rules
The "new rules" state...
-no food
-no drinks (including baby bottles)
-no cell phones
-no mp3 players
-all riders with children in strollers must take the kids out of the strollers and fold the strollers up BEFORE getting on the bus.
Does this seem reasonable let alone safe? Not only is the concept of carrying a child AND a stroller on and off the bus inconceivable but you can't even give your baby a bottle but there's also no carseats or seatbelts for the kids.
38. Get Mushtaq Ahmed's Name on a Brighton & Hove Bus
After 6 years at Sussex County Cricket Club, On the 27th August 2008, Mushtaq Ahmed announced his retirement from the game of Cricket.
He was a crucial part of the County's most successful period, playing 179 matches, taking 598 wickets in all forms of the game. He twice took 100 wickets in a County Championship season, and won 3 titles as a result of his great performances.
Not only was he a world class bowler, he was a truly humble person and the perfect role model.
Loved by the game, his team mates and fans alike, it is time he is honoured with his name appearing on the front of a Brighton & Hove Bus
Mushtaq Ahmed, we salute you!!
39. Request for one extra City bound 302/202 Service between 5 and 6PM Mon-Fri
The 302 Bus service has a 40 minute wait between busses at 5:09 and 5:49 PM. This is the height of peak hour and during this gap 22 (13 outbound, 9 inbound) trains arrive at Box Hill station.
This is a request for a single extra bus servicng the 302/202 route between these times at the benefit of the transport using public.
40. Route 92 Later PM Service Needed
The Palm-Tran route 92 is an East-West bus route that runs from Hwy 441 /
Sandalfoot Plaza all the way out to Camino Real & A1A / Ocean Blvd.
The route has low ridership, and always has, and the reason that not many
people ride the bus, is because the last route back to Sandalfoot Plaza from
Camino Real / A1A is at 4:30pm. Not even a standard 9-5 job can be
considered, living on this bus route.
People who use the bus to go to work can't get home from work. This is the
earliest ending route of the entire Palm-Tran system(excluding the jury shuttle,
and an inlet route).
The route has been cut back by removing service to the community hospital,
and has stopped servicing Logger's Run, a large residential portion of the
western Boca Raton area. These were all methods of saving money on the
route.
Instead of trying to increase ridership, Palm-Tran also decided to terminate
service for this route on Sundays.
Later service for this route is NEEDED. It is one of the three routes that runs
through Boca Raton's downtown area, and one of the two that connects the
western Boca Raton area to the eastern Boca Raton area. It connects the
Broward County Transportation system, and the unincorporated residential
areas of southwestern Palm-Beach county, to the eastern 'working' area of Boca
Raton, and services 3 major bus stops that serve the entire county. Later night
service is desparately needed by all the riders on this route, indefinitely.
41. Public Transportation for the Future Starts Now
American families spend 18% of their household budgets on transportation, making it the second largest household expenditure after housing.
A study on U.S. government spending and its impact on worker productivity estimated that a 10-year $100 billion increase in public transport spending would boost worker output by $521 billion, compared with $237 billion for the same spending on highways.
AAA members who rely almost exclusively on automobiles for their daily transportation needs, would still opt to spend more money on public transit than on new roads, according to a recent survey.
Business output is positively affected by transit investment. A sustained program of transit capital investment will generate an increase of $2 million in business output. After 20 years, these benefits increase to $31 million.
Every dollar that U.S. taxpayers invest in public transportation generates $6 or more in economic returns.
In suburban Philadelphia, the total increase in residential real estate value in neighborhoods with train service is estimated to be over $1.45 billion.
In Los Angeles, .80 of every $1.00 spent on public transport gets recirculated in the region, translating into $3.80 in goods and services. Conversely, .85 of every $1.00 spent on gas leaves the region.
New Jersey now has 600,000 more registered vehicles than drivers.
The value per square foot of commercial space near Metrorail stations in Northern Virginia has jumped more than 600 percent since the first station opened in 1977.
In comparison with private vehicles, public transportation generates 95% less carbon monoxide, 92% less in volatile organic compounds, and about half as much carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide per passenger mile.
A study conducted before, during and after the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta examined the effect of concerted efforts to improve traffic conditions to accommodate the wave of spectators and its effect on asthma attacks. The city made 24-hour transportation available, added buses, closed streets to cars and implemented flexible work schedules. The study showed the result of these efforts was a remarkable decline in ground-level ozone and other air pollutants, which reduced the number of emergency rooms visits for asthma during and shortly after the games.
42. CityLink Sunday Service Petition Drive
CityLink is the bus system serving Peoria, IL and it's surrounding areas.
It is estimated in 2006 more than 2-million people commuted to work, school and shopping using the buses.
43. Reduce First Manchester bus fares
First Manchester have increased the fares twice since April 2006. They have increased more than inflation and are slightly unfair, especially the single fares. The Day/Week/Month savers have also increased and are now £3.50, £13 and £45 respectively.
These fares are too much for some people and is unfair, especially as First make a large amount of profit.
After all, who wants to pay this amount for unreliable buses?
44. Improve the 393 bus route from
The 393 bus travels a route that is particularly busy on weekday mornings and the irregularity of the buses means that buses are always full to capacity and often do not stop at the bus stops.
There is increasing frustration at the low number of buses on the route in the morning when many people use the service to travel towards Holloway to Highbury and Islington train and underground station.
Parents with children and the elderly have been left at bus stops when the buses are too full and it is a regular occurence to wait 30 mins for a bus that is supposed to arrive every 12 minutes.
Tempers are beginning to fray with an increased number of arguments between bus drivers and passengers with little resolution to the problem.
I personally have made complaints and a number of people I know that use the service have also logged their frustration at the service.
We call on Arriva and Transport for London to increase the number of buses to service the greater number of passengers using the service in the morning.
45. Please Drive the School Buses Into the Circles
The most important concern of the people is the safety of our children once they leave the house every morning and when they get off the bus each evening.
During the fall semesters of school it is dark when the children congregate at the bus stop and there have been reports of registered sex offenders at the bus stop on countless occassions. There have also been reports of parents physically attacking other people's children. There are countless fights and numerous of other acts of malice and thereafter.
On day rainy days the children are soak and wet before they even get on the bus. The majority of the trouble the children get into begins at the overcrowded bus stop. There are three different schools of children at the bus stop at the same time. The police have been called several times for incidents that have taken place at the bus stop.
There is a high volume of traffic at the bus stop especially during drop off. There is no cross walk worker and the youngest child walking to and from the bus stop is five years of age.
We, the people, feel that a lot of these problems can be avoided by the bus simply driving into the circle instead of having the children walk out of the circle to go to school! Thank you very much!
46. Say No to GMPTE concessionary fare rise
GMPTE has increased concessionary fares on buses from 50p to 70p from 25th March 2007. The reason they give for this is that from 1st April 2006, people over 60 were allowed to get on the bus after 9.30am for free.
So because of this, they have to give the bus companies money to compensate for this. That is why they decided to raise concessionary fare to a ridiculous price of 70p.