The recent violent attacks on the Metro system, including assaults on bus drivers and the fatal subway stabbing of Mirna Soza Arauz, 67, on her way home from work, present an existential threat to public transit in Los Angeles. Taxpayers have invested billions of dollars in rail and bus expansions to fight climate change and make it easier for people to get around without driving themselves. Transit is supposed to be the backbone of L.A.’s “car-free” Olympics in 2028. But if people do not feel...
In the latest violence on Los Angeles County's mass transit system, a man slashed a woman's arm with a weapon at a Metro station Monday just a few hours after two people were stabbed during a fight that started aboard a bus in Glendale, authorities said. All three victims are expected to survive, but the bloodshed highlights a spate of violence aboard Metro buses and trains over the last several weeks, including a killing at a Studio City train station and a driver who was stabbed on a bus full...
At least 90 passengers were injured and 30 were rushed to area hospitals after two trains collided in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Friday morning.
Police said the woman driving the vehicle exhibited signs of intoxication and had been driving eastbound on Westheimer Road when she failed to stay in a single lane and drove onto the sidewalk before hitting the pedestrians.
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A person was robbed and assaulted aboard a Metro bus Tuesday in the Encino area and a suspect was taken into custody, marking the third attack tied to the transit system within 24 hours and again raising concerns about safety on buses and trains. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, officers responded around 2:05 […]
The Florida Highway Patrol says a bus carrying farmworkers in central Florida has overturned, killing eight people and injuring another 40 passengers.
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SOUTH SALT LAKE, Utah, May 4 2024 (Gephardt Daily) — A TRAX train struck a wheelchair-bound man Friday in South Salt Lake. Injuries were apparently minor as the man was trying to get to a platform to board a train at the Meadowbrook Station, Utah Transit Authority spokesman Carl Arky said. The wheelchair was apparently […] The post Wheelchair bound man injured in run in with TRAX train first appeared on Gephardt Daily.
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At least eleven people were killed and dozens more were injured when a bus carrying high school students on a graduation trip crashed on Indonesia's biggest island, police said Sunday. The bus was carrying more than 60 students and teachers from the Java island town of Depok to Lembang, a
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Two people were taken to the hospital after a shooting outside of a Whitehaven bank on Friday morning. The shooting happened at 9:25 a.m. in the 4600 block of Elvis Presley B