Officials also ordered "10 individual bus company owners, managers and employees to cease all passenger transportation operations, which includes selling bus tickets to passengers, " the Transportation Department said in a news release.
Cuts are planned across the board including teacher furloughs and layoffs, staffing cuts, reduced services and elimination of bus and other transportation for students.
It attributed the increased risk to the almost five seconds it found that the driver's eyes were off the roadway while texting, said Rich Hanowski, the director of the Center for Truck and Bus Safety at the transportation institute.
In the comparative study of the cost of mass transit, analysts at Mercer selected the most convenient and popular means of transportation between bus and subway in a given city and gauged the price based upon a ride in the city center for one adult, according to the Mercer analysis team.
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Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Manhattan Democrat, announced his support Monday for legislation that would allow the city Department of Transportation to license and regulate intercity bus companies, starting with approving where they pick up and discharge passengers on city streets.
The only public transportation between the two cities was by Greyhound bus.
For men, the deadliest occupations involve transportation and material-moving (pilots, bus drivers, crane operators and sailors), while administrative-support duties (couriers and stockers) claimed the most working women.
The city plans to enhance services to riders in the coming year, including the application to provide bus arrival times to passengers waiting along bus routes, according to Dennis Mitchell, the advanced transportation management systems project manager with Oregon's Department of Transportation.
"We are committed to taking unsafe bus companies off the road, " U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said in a statement.
Safety goes beyond crime and includes traffic accidents or access to safe transportation choices like waking, biking, or intercity bus operators.
Graham Hicks, the councillor in charge of transportation, said that "it may well mean some bus routes closing".
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The proposal would also require the DOT to consult with local community boards and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority before approving pickup and drop-off locations for bus services.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he was directing 230 National Guard troops to New York City to support Metropolitan Transportation Authority police and the NYPD in guarding landmarks, including bus and rail stations, airports, and the city's tunnels.
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Nice has fantastic public transportation with high-speed trains, a modern tramway and comprehensive bus routes.
The Transportation Department's statement said it has doubled the number of bus inspections of the nation's estimated 4, 000 passenger bus companies, from 12, 991 in 2005 to 28, 982 in 2011.
People in many U.S. communities cannot walk even if they wanted to because workplaces are too far apart to permit walking, and too spread out to make public transportation--which often requires walking at least to and from bus or train stops--practical.
In a poster for a new campaign by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, a woman sits alone with her iPhone on a dark city bus.
Witnesses said that they saw smoke coming from the back of the bus and that it was going very fast, said Michelle Profant, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Transportation.
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"Fuel economy isn't helped when cross traffic is idling while it waits for an empty bus to go by, " says Steven Arrington, the director of resource development at the Jacksonville, Florida Transportation Agency, which has implemented a trial of the new technology.
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