Trust the experts: Dr. Tom Frieden, director for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said during a telephone press briefing Wednesday that you cannot get Ebola by sitting next to someone on a bus, but that infected or exposed persons should not ride public transportation because they could transmit the disease to someone else.

The Province;

Until Higuchi’s sergeant showed up, he was by himself because his partner for the evening, Constable Mike Rossa, was back at Surrey Central helping write a report on a young man who had been robbed of his cellphone at knifepoint near the busy SkyTrain station and bus loop.
“The kid was pretty shook up,” said Rossa, who explained the phone couldn’t be ‘pinged’ because the thief had probably removed its SIM card and turned it off.
Higuchi and Rossa were taking a reporter and photographer on what’s called a ‘ride-along’ — but which turned out to be mostly walking around the rapidly-changing neighbourhood and a little riding the SkyTrain, all in hopes of illustrating what transit police have to deal with on a daily basis

h/t Terry

Along with their bags.
h/t Dave from Guelph

CBS NY: Woman Says She Was Brutally Beaten By Teenage Girls On Subway In Brooklyn

Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch, and the sun never… eh…
Nevermind.

What happens when bike fanatics push limited mobility on a mobile populace?

Youthful hi-jinx?

No injuries are reported after a nine-year-old boy stole a city bus in Saskatoon and managed to drive it for a couple of blocks Saturday morning.

Meanwhile, the Transit union is feeling their oats.
H/t: Plainzdrifter and @tammyrobert.

‘We’ve never had sightings to this magnitude,’ said Joe Costales, a chairman with Transport Workers Union Local 100.

h/t Antelope

Could have been worse: Woman plucks and eats raw bird on Montreal Metro
Could have been some guy’s eyeballs.
h/t Edward

QOTW – “I used to be a big supporter of the streetcar until I started riding it every day”.
h/t Kevin B.

“Who’s there?”
“Israel”.
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Anybody done the math on the C02 generated to earn the purchase price of a new #BMWi3 vs a used 2000 Ford F150? @bmwcanada #ThatsRecycling

— Katewerk (@katewerk) July 11, 2014

And I do mean “hitchhikers”. (h/t Tom)

Arsonist ignites flammable liquid inside bus

Video! Woman lighting bus passenger’s hair on fire.
h/t Brian W.