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the public-transportation announcement for the last stop (US All out) amongst a synonym of among acceptable in British English while seeming old fashioned or pretentious in American English [15] anorak a hooded coat (US parka); a socially impaired obsessive, particularly trainspotters (US geek, trekkie, otaku, etc.) answerphone
Playdays (known as Playbus until December 1989) is a British pre-school television programme which ran from 1988 to 1997 on Children's BBC.The show was the successor to Play School and, like its predecessor, was designed as an educational programme.
Bus passenger numbers continued to decline in the 1960s. The Transport Act 1968 was an attempt to rationalise publicly owned bus services and provide a framework for the subsidy of uneconomic but socially necessary services. The Act: transferred the English and Welsh bus companies of the Transport Holding Company to the new National Bus Company
The frequency of school bus-involved traffic accidents has raised concerns throughout China. In 2011, 41 primary and middle school students were killed in school bus accidents, including a collision between a kindergarten bus and a coal van in Gansu province. The nine-seat minibus was carrying 64 people: the driver, a teacher, and 62 children.
Bretonside bus station: Plymouth: Closed Brighouse bus station: Brighouse: 6 [6] Operating Bristol bus station: Bristol: Operating Broadmarsh bus station: Nottingham: Operating Burnley bus station: Burnley: 18 [7] Operating Bury Interchange: Bury: 19 [8] Bury tram stop: Operating Canterbury Bus Station Canterbury 25 Operating Castleford bus ...
A crossing guard (North American English), [1] lollipop man/lady/person (British, Irish, and Australian English), [2] [3] or school road patrol (New Zealand English) [4] is a traffic management personnel who is normally stationed on busy roadways to aid pedestrians.
Buses have been used on the streets of London since 1829, when George Shillibeer started operating his horse-drawn omnibus service from Paddington to the City.In 1850, Thomas Tilling started horse bus services, [6] and in 1855 the London General Omnibus Company (LGOC) was founded to amalgamate and regulate the horse-drawn omnibus services then operating in London.
First published in Infant Institutes, part the first: or a Nurserical Essay on the Poetry, Lyric and Allegorical, of the Earliest Ages, &c., in London. Peter Piper: United Kingdom 1813 [78] Published in John Harris' Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation in 1813. Polly Put the Kettle On: United Kingdom 1803 [79]