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TripView creates trip plans for metro, train, bus, ferry, light rail and coach services. Plan your trip based on stations, stops and wharves. For bus travel, you can search by route, suburb or stop. It will list all timetabled services with real-time data.

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TripView displays Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane public transport timetable data on your phone. It features a summary view showing your next services, as well as a full timetable viewer. All timetable data is stored on your phone, so it can be used offline. Features: - View times for any saved trip with a single tap - Real-time delay information and vehicle map (subject to data availability) - Trackwork and service interruption information - Interactive maps (create your trip by clicking on your station/stop) - Alarms (arrival/departure, time/distance) - Multi-modal trip editor (customise exact change locations / lines) - View your favourite trips on Apple Watch NOTE: Best efforts are taken to ensure timetable accuracy, but no guarantees are made. If you find an error in the timetable, please email [email protected] with details. No guarantees are made about real-time data availability. If the transit operator doesn't provide real-time data for a particular service, TripView will revert to showing the scheduled time, as per the timetable. Alarms require iOS4 and a device that is capable of multitasking. Note: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

Version 6.0.1

- Use real-time vehicle description to override the real-time set type for Sydney Trains - Fixed crash when creating a trip from a stop that has no valid destinations - Fixed bug where 'Cancelled' text was truncated in some circumstances - Fixed bug where real-time data was sometimes unavailable after viewing a trip, minimising the app, and then reopening it the following day

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10 years and no slowing down!

I’ve been using the app for approximately 10 years and it’s always been a quality experience and well done. I went and checked to be sure and confirmed that I first started using the app in November 2009. Ages ago yet so recent. Functionality and coverage is perfect for Sydney. Would suggest that overview maps for Melbourne trams and trains be included for that region as it is in the app for Sydney trains. Everyone using public transport in Sydney and Melbourne should be using this app. And tourists should be told about the app in every travel blog.

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Usually TripView works well, unless there is a “malfunction” at the driver’s end. I think that something it is switched off for a while? If this is the case, when one checks the times it won’t provide an update. Sometimes the stated time will show up, but it doesn’t allow passengers to track the bus. Then, out of the blue, the bus WILL turn up when it hasn’t shown up on the app. I hope this explains the situation, which can be very frustrating, especially if one has decided to go to a different bus stop etc. Thank you.

Absolutely brilliant- now please add brisbane

I loved this app. It has everything you need and is so user friendly. Used it when I lived in Sydney and then moved to Melbourne. Thought the world ended when I couldn’t use this app anymore. The developer than added Melbourne. Amazing. Sadly I’m now in Brisbane. Any possibility to add the Brisbane transit system? I have the fully paid version and I can’t use it anymore. Crying camel tears!!! 4 stars only because it’s super amazing but has no brisbane.

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There is no better way to experience the city that never sleeps than at night. This bus tour will bring you through Times Square, Greenwich Village, Chinatown, and Little Italy so you can enjoy the incredible display of lights and architecture.

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Had heard good things, but did not experience them. Signed up online for 2 day pass, with Brooklyn... read more

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We had read some reviews and were sceptical at first but bought a 2 day pass. Loved it. SANTANA needs a microphone as she is awesome and had great stories to tell. Wesley also had great information. We found the buses easy to catch and didn't have to wait long. The boat tour was a great add on. Staff were friendly and helpful. It was a great way to see a snapshot of New York and I actually liked the recorded informative and songs that played. I recommend this as a cheap tour.

Thank you for sharing this experience with us, Andrea H! We will be sure to let Santana and Wesley know what a wonderful time you had aboard their tour. If you have and amazing pictures, fell free to use the hashtag #topviewnyc. We look forward to touring with you and your family in the near future!

There are absolutely no positives to say about this company, it was literally the worst decision we were made or should I say pressured into. As we were walking along from the New York Public Library we were stopped by one of TOPVIEW Sightseeing's agent who was friendly and talked away to us, stopping us from moving along even though we initially said we weren't interested, as we had done with all the other bus sightseeing companies. As she talked away to us she started telling us the best places to go and things to see in New York and since it was our first time in the city it was nice to get some handy hints and she proceeded to tell us about what the tour bus does and where it goes selling that the ticket also includes a ferry trip and night tours etc. After chatting for about 10/15 minutes we were asked if we would like to purchase the tickets, be it a one day etc. We said we weren't sure and would like to go away and think about, if we decided on the tour we would come back and purchase from herself. This is where her whole character changed from really friendly to very passive aggressive and began ranting about how she has spent "a lot of time with us" and that she "only works on commission" so therefore this would be "a waste of her time". I personally did not feel comfortable in the situation and the others in my group were more interested in the bus tour than myself and feeling pressured we decided to purchase the 'Super Pass 48". Worst $44 we all spent the whole holiday. When we eventually managed to catch one of the irregular buses we were extremely disappointed to realise that there is absolutely no tour whatsoever. We got on the downtown bus and went almost the whole journey listening to the same 6 songs wondering when the tour was going to actually start. It didn't. So we got off the bus. To add to the passive aggressive original service and no audio tour the bus driver was rude, unhelpful and was too busy getting off the bus and talking to coworkers than to provide the overpriced service we had paid for. At one of the stops they also crammed far too many people onto the bus who had all clearly been waiting forever for a bus to turn up as they were all saying how shocking this bus company is and how unreliable it is. They were even more angry at the fact there was absolutely no tour to actually go along with the journey, like was promised. I'm still completely shocked that from what I've gathered from now reading other reviews that this has happened to others in the past and is continuing to happen. That TOPVIEW lie about their service with their agents stating that there will be an audio guide/tour as you go around New York City and most of the time they actually have someone on the bus giving a guided tour, and to top it all off they refuse to give customers a refund for an unsatisfactory service. Avoid at all costs. Don't waste you're money. There are probably better bus tour companies to go with, or better yet save that money, buy an unlimited subway pass and tour New York yourself. Don't feel pressured into buying something that you aren't 100% sure about, just say thank you for your help but I'd prefer not to and go about your holiday.

Nicole G, we appreciate you taking the time out to share this experience with us. You have described some very unpleasant instances and we would like to discuss this with you further. Please reach out to us at [email protected].

I got these hop-on hop-off bus tickets hoping to have an easier way to travel around the city and save some money on cab fairs, boy was a wrong! Every time we wanted to get on a bus we waited at least 30-40 minutes. We waited at the Museum of Natural History for 45 minutes in the rain and never saw a bus! I finally called an Uber. It was a total waste of time and money. Bus stops were difficult to identify. On the bus you had to keep track of where you were because they didn't announce stops so when you got close to where you wanted to get off we had to run down and ask them stop! Will never use this bus service again.

Burgess5055, thank you for your honest feedback. We apologize that you did not enjoy your tour. Our Uptown bus is typically a 35 minute wait as to accommodate the guest whom are visiting the many museums along the route. When customers are having any extended wait, we do plan for it by putting more buses on the road. We are sorry if you left before you were able to board that additional bus. If you would like to discuss this further, please reach out to us at [email protected].

We bought this tour through Livingsocial so I have to say that was good value for money. Looking at the cost on the website, I wouldn't have paid that price based on what we got. I was told via email that I had to go to the main office to exchange our Livingsocial vouchers for tickets but when we got there we were told in person we could have done it at the tour stop. Once at the stop, the bus arrived very quickly- it was the last bus but it waited for about 20 minutes before leaving. It seemed like as it was the last bus, all the ticket sellers were getting on it to go back to their office and not only were they standing in front blocking our view but they were having loud conversations when we are trying to listen to the audio tour. It was a very cold night so I'm probably a little biased in my review but we didn't go upstairs as most of the top was open and far too cold to sit up there but the downstairs was also cold. The bus driver was very nice and added a little flavor to the tour. Ultimately, I didn't find a lot of the tour that interesting - we didn't really pass many "sights" and felt like just a drive through different parts of NY with a quick over the bridge to Brooklyn and back again. It only goes from Times Square down and then back there so nothing above that is seen. The tour is almost 2 hours but I think it was interesting for about 30 minutes. Nice thing was seeing the lights coming back over the bridge. Possibly the hop on hop off is a better tour to do but again for the price we paid we probably got value for money.

Shopntravel_more, thank you for your feedback. We apologize that our sales team was a bit disruptive to your tour. We will brief our team members on this behavior, thank you for bring this to our attention. We are glad that overall, you were able to enjoy the Night Tour. Please reach out to us at [email protected] if you would like to discuss this further.

It is not about looks for sure and not much of a guided tour. I also agree with the other comment on that there are to many people selling the tours every where.. The price was much less than other company's..about 20.00 $ cheaper per ticket. It serves its person but if u are looking for a narrated guided tour this is not the one.

Thank you for taking the time to leave this feedback, Ppc. We do not promote our tour to be guided by a tour guide. Our tours are in fact narrated via a state of the art GPS automated system. We are pleased that you found the tour useful and we look forward to touring with you again some time in the near future.

Me and my wife paid for the 6 day ticket which cost about $120. We didn't expect to use it much as we fully expected the promise of a bus every 20 mins to be a unrealistic due to the sheer volume of traffic on the roads. We ended up using the tickets about 6 times as we were in Times Square close to the start of the tour. Each time staff were very help fully no issues with the drivers - a lady called Santana who drove us to Soho was particularly helpful explaining the sites and advising use where to each. The only issue I would say was we missed the last bus twice as we miscalculated our times (some advice on last bus times would be helpful) and when it rains the cover leaks badly watch were you sit (it is amusing watching people get drenched though) so overall we probably saved a few dollars using this bus service as it it cost about $25 in a taxi back from where the bus dropped us off. Just planned your journey

Andrew W, thank you for taking the time to share this experience with us! We are thrilled that you found the staff and drivers to be helpful and we will be sure to let Santana know how she impacted your touring experience. We pride ourself on having drivers who go above and beyond for our customers. We apologize if you happened to get wet yourself- we will work on addressing this. Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We hope that this does not deter you from touring with us again. We look forward to touring with you and your family in the near future.

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Hays school bus with 44 pre-K students, 11 adults rolls over in Bastrop County; two dead

At least two people, including a child, died Friday afternoon after a Hays school district bus with 44 pre-K students and 11 adults rolled over in western Bastrop County off Texas 21.

The Tom Green Elementary School students were returning from a field trip to a Bastrop County zoo, according to a statement from the Hays Consolidated Independent School District.

The crash occurred at 2751 W. Texas 21 near the intersection at Caldwell Road, EMS said on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

The bus was headed west on Texas 21 when a concrete truck that was headed east veered into the lane and struck the bus around 2 p.m., said Sgt. Deon Cockrell of the Texas Department of Public Safety. Several children flew out of the bus, he said.

The bus had no seatbelts because it was a 2011 model, said Tim Savoy, a Hays school district spokesman. School buses made since 2017 do have seatbelts, he said.

Cockrell said it was unclear at this time what caused the driver of the truck to swerve into the opposite lane.

The child who died was a boy, said Kevin Parker, division chief of Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services. Officials did not give the boy's age.

Cockrell said a man in a Dodge Charger following the bus struck the bus and also was killed. It was not clear if that man was part of the group from the school.

Cockrell said the driver of the concrete truck was cooperating with authorities, noting that it's uncertain if the driver will be charged at this time pending the outcome of the DPS investigation.

EMS evaluated 53 people for injuries. Parker said four people were taken to a hospital via helicopter with critical injuries, although he did not state whether the injured were children or adults.

Another six people were taken to the hospital by ambulance with potentially serious injuries, Parker said. Others were treated at the scene or taken to the hospital for minor injuries. Parker did not say how many were taken to the hospital with minor injuries, but noted that an ambulance bus was used to take 10 people with minor injuries.

In a Friday night letter to Hays school district families, Superintendent Eric Wright thanked first responders at the scene and state leaders who offered support, as well as staff members of Bastrop ISD, "who have been both at the scene and in close contact with us since moments after the accident occurred."

He also thanked the driver of the bus, whom he did not name.

"Though injured, she insisted that medical personnel tend to the children first," Wright wrote in the letter. "Additionally, the other adults on the bus also focused their attention on the children first, despite their own injuries.

"I wish I could end this correspondence by saying that everything will be alright. For most of us, it eventually will. But, there are grieving families tonight who will never know life again as it was before. Let us continue to focus on them in our hearts and in our prayers."

After the children had been evacuated from the bus, it leaned against a grassy slope on the north side of the road. All the windows on the right side of the bus were cracked and those near the front of the bus bore gaping holes. Plastic water bottles lay strewn near the bus’s back wheel.

Family members are reunited with kids

Family members of students on the bus were reunited with the children at Tom Green Elementary School. Reunification was completed by 6:45 p.m., Wright said in his letter to families.

Jonathan Rivera and his wife, Cynthia Rivera, walked out of Tom Green Elementary School shortly before 6 p.m. They said they had just found out their 5-year-old niece was OK.

“This was her first school field trip because she had just transferred from Austin, so this just sucks,“ Cynthia Rivera said.

Cynthia Yescas said her 4-year-old nephew was on the bus. She said he was OK, but she and another relative were going to take him to the hospital because he was still a little hurt.

“The kids are more scared than anything else,” she said.

Residents, driver describe aftermath of crash

Alejandro Anaya, who lives across from the site of the bus crash, was at home when he heard the crash happen. Texas 21 can be dangerous because people drive fast on the two-lane road, where the speed limit is 65 mph, he said.

He pointed to a tree in his front yard that was tilted from a previous crash.

“The speed this highway has, it’s not safe,” Anaya said.

When the crash happened, his family sprang into action to calm the frightened children. The family gave the students water and cool towels, he said.

Some children were afraid to get on the bus that arrived to take them to reunite with their parents, he said. They were afraid of another crash.

Across from Anaya’s house, the school bus in the crash lay tilted on an angle on the slanted, grassy shoulder.

“Some of (the students) were really, really badly injured, and some of them were OK; they just had minor scratches,” Anaya said.

It’s scary to think about crashes involving children, he said.

“It was bad, not something someone would want to see on a kid, especially with a family,” Anaya said, gesturing to his children playing with toy trucks in his yard.

When Tyler Meachum, who lives a few houses down from the crash site, tried to go home from work, officers told him the crash involved a school bus.

At first Meachum panicked, worried his own son, who goes to a Bastrop school, was involved, he said.

Meachum and his family have lived off State Highway 21 for two years, but their son will start driving this year and they plan to moved closer into town, he said.

“There’s a lot of people that need to be refreshed on their driving course,” Meachum said.

The Bastrop school district was rerouting buses because of the wreck, so he needed to go to another site to pick up his child, he said.

“I, unfortunately, have kind of been waiting for this to happen with a bus because there are so many wrecks on here,” Meachum said. “I just figured it was a matter of time.”

Carl Jaynes, who was driving an RV, said he had been sitting on the road behind the crash site in his vehicle for almost three hours.

He’d been on his way from San Antonio to his home in Arkansas when he got stuck in traffic caused by the crash. He couldn’t turn his long RV around on the two-lane highway, so he was waiting for the crash site to clear, he said.

Jaynes said he didn’t think he had seen a school bus crash as bad as this one.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott comments on crash

In a statement on X, Gov. Greg Abbott called for Texans to pray for the victims of the crash. He said he'd spoken with Wright, the Hays district superintendent, "and offered the state's full support as they help their community through this tragedy."

"I thank the first responders and law enforcement officers who were on the scene immediately and continue to help their fellow Texans who were injured," Abbott said in the statement.

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As one of the largest cities in the world, New York City has so much to see and do. That's why many visitors start their trip off with a bus tour to see iconic sights and neighborhoods and get the lay of the land. To help you find the tour that's best for you, U.S. News reviewed traveler sentiment and expert input to determine the top New York bus tours. Read our suggestions below for some of the best bus tours you can book for your next trip to the City That Never Sleeps.

Big Bus Tours

Price: Adults from $80; kids from $70 Duration: 75 to 90 minutes

Big Bus New York offers a hop-on, hop-off tour that features 18 stops at major attractions like Bryant Park, Broadway and St. Patrick's Cathedral, with prerecorded commentary provided along the way. Double-decker buses frequent stops every 20 minutes on the Red Line (which runs through downtown) and every 30 minutes on uptown's Blue Line. The Essential Ticket, which is valid for one day, grants you access to the 90-minute downtown and 75-minute uptown routes and lets you add on extras like tickets for Madame Tussauds, the Empire State Building or a harbor cruise. Big Bus New York is a hit with travelers who appreciate the ability to tailor tours to their interests. Others bemoaned the overcrowded buses and long wait times.

You can also book a Discover Ticket, which explores famous landmarks downtown, or an Explore Ticket, which is a two-day hop-on, hop-off bus tour experience. Big Bus Tours also operates a seasonal night tour.

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A Slice of Brooklyn Bus Tours – The Original Brooklyn Pizza Tour

Price: Adults from $105; kids from $95 Duration: 4.5 hours

Brooklyn has so much to see and do – and eat! The Original Brooklyn Pizza Tour, which reviewers describe as a great experience with even better pizza, lasts 4.5 hours and takes travelers throughout the borough to sample delicious slices from places like Grimaldi's and L&B Spumoni Gardens. You'll also see filming locations for movies like "Saturday Night Fever" and "Goodfellas."

Ticket prices include lunch. Tours are available Friday through Monday and Wednesday at 11 a.m. A Slice of Brooklyn also leads a seasonal tour exploring Dyker Heights' Christmas lights , among other options.

On Location Tours – "Sex and the City" Hotspots Tour

Price: From $66 Duration: 3.5 hours

Fans of Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda can relive all their favorite "Sex and the City" moments during this New York bus tour, which features more than 40 popular locations from the show and movies. During the tour, you'll view iconic filming locations, walk past Carrie Bradshaw's brownstone apartment, sample cupcakes from Magnolia Bakery, drink a cosmopolitan (if you wish) and shop in Greenwich Village. Plus, you'll visit stops from the reboot "And Just Like That," including Bergdorf Goodman and Chelsea Market. Reviewers peg this tour as fun and fabulous.

Tourgoers can pay another $10 for priority seating. Participants must be 18 or older. Tours generally depart Thursday to Sunday at 2 p.m., though additional days may be available during the summer months. On Location Tours operates other filming locations tours for shows and movies, including "Gossip Girl," "The Sopranos" and "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel," among others.

USA Guided Tours – Discover NY Tour

Price: Adults from $99; kids from $89 Duration: 6 hours

On this full-day tour, you'll drive through some of the city's most famous neighborhoods and most-visited areas. You'll have your choice of a traditional bus or a bus with either a glass top or a convertible top. Regardless of the vehicle, enjoy the expert commentary and a history lesson from your tour guide as you cruise past Times Square, Madison Square Park, Central Park, Rockefeller Center and more. A 15-minute stroll through each of the main stops is included, as is a boat cruise that takes you to see the famous NYC skyline. Many travelers call this tour fantastic and a must-do in New York.

Tours depart at 9 and 10 a.m. daily. USA Guided Tours also offers a night tour of the Big Apple.

Hush Hip Hop Tours – Birthplace of Hip Hop

Price: Adults from $79.99; kids from $58 Duration: 3 hours

Travelers routinely praise the Birthplace of Hip Hop tour not only for its cultural lessons about Harlem, but also for the informative guides who explain the history of hip-hop music. During this tour, you'll see famous clubs, murals dedicated to artists and the Apollo Theater. Plus, you'll get to observe a dance session and show off your moves.

Outings run Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 11 a.m. Hush Hip Hop Tours also operates walking tours of Harlem and Brooklyn, among others.

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BASTROP COUNTY, Texas – Hays Independent School District has released two videos from cameras on a school bus involved in Friday’s deadly crash with a concrete truck.

One video shows the front of the bus as it’s driving in western Bastrop County, bringing pre-K students from Tom Green Elementary School and 11 adults home from a field trip to the Bastrop Zoo. The other video is from a camera on the side of the bus.

At 1:58 p.m. according to the time stamp on the video, an oncoming truck drifts across the double line in front of the bus. The bus driver steers to the right to try to avoid hitting the truck, but they collide head-on with the truck about halfway into the lane.

Out of sensitivity to the families involved, KSAT silenced the video we published and edited out the rollover portion of the video shortly after the moment of impact.

The unedited version of the video shows the bus rolling on its side and bus parts and papers from inside the bus scattering out onto the road. Following the crash, sounds of screaming and crying can be heard. The video then shows other motorists running toward the bus to help.

In a letter to families and staff, Hays ISD Spokesperson Tim Savoy explained why the district released the video saying that they were following the Texas Public Information Act.

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Investigators have not said what caused the driver of the concrete truck to veer out of his lane.

One student on the bus, 5-year-old Ulises Rodriguez Montoya was killed. A motorist in a Dodge Charger that struck the back of the bus was also killed. He was identified as UT student Ryan Wallace, 33, from Bastrop.

On Friday, Superintendent Eric Wright said a total of 51 were injured, including the bus driver. According to the Associated Press , four people in critical condition were airlifted from the crash site and several others were transported by ambulance. All students have since been released from area hospitals. The district said an early childhood education teacher has the most serious injuries and “will take time to recover.”

The district called the bus driver a hero.

“We will be forever indebted to her, and the other adults on the bus, who, though injured, placed the children above themselves and their own well-being. Dr. Wright said today of the bus driver and the other adults that, ‘their actions saved lives,’” the release states.

The bus didn’t have seatbelts because it was a 2011 model, Tim Savoy, a Hays school district spokesperson, told the newspaper. New buses have been fitted with belts since 2017, he said.

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Dashcam video shows cement truck plowing into Texas school bus, killing boy and man

The bus was full with more than 40 pre-k students who were on their way back from a trip to the zoo.

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Harrowing video has been released showing the moment a cement truck in Texas collided with a school bus packed with pre-K students returning from a trip to the zoo, killing a boy and a man.

The video, from front-facing and side-facing cameras, shows the cement truck veering across double yellow lines and crashing almost head-on with the bus, causing the bus to roll over.

Just before impact, someone can be heard crying out, and, as the bus hits the ground, a fireball appears to explode while crash debris can be seen flying around. 

45 DEAD AFTER BUS PLUNGES OFF BRIDGE IN SOUTH AFRICA, LEAVING 8-YEAR-OLD AS ONLY SURVIVOR

Dashcam video has been released, showing a cement truck plowing into a school bus packed with pre-K students.

The footage, released by the Hays Consolidated Independent School District, shows other drivers leaving their cars to race toward the bus.

Ulises Rodriguez Montoya, five, who was riding the bus, died, as did 33-year-old Ryan Wallace, who was driving a 2024 Hyundai behind the bus and plowed into it. Wallace was a doctoral student at the University of Texas, according to the Austin American-Statesman. 

A man rushes to the scene where a cement truck plowed into a school bus packed with pre-K students returning from a trip to the zoo, killing a boy and a man. (Associated Press)

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The deadly incident took place at around 2 p.m. near Texas State Highway 21 and Caldwell Road in Bastrop County, a rural highway outside Austin,  FOX Austin  reported. 

The school bus was carrying more than 40 pre-K students from Tom Green Elementary School who were returning from a zoo field trip, many of whom were also injured.

The crash remains under investigation. Authorities have not said how fast the vehicles were traveling.

Rescuers on the scene where a cement truck plowed into a school bus packed with pre-K students last week, killing a boy and a man. (Associated Press)

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No charges have been filed against the cement truck driver.

According to a report by KVUE, citing court documents, Texas police interviewed the cement truck driver while he was in the hospital for treatment on Monday, and he told them he admitted to having smoked marijuana the night before the crash.

The driver also allegedly told police that he only had slept about three hours before consuming cocaine at 1 a.m. the morning of the crash. He also refused to provide a blood sample for analysis, according to court documents.

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By train [ edit ]

Otherwise the best way to get there is by Saratov Rail from Moscow's Pavletsky Station, which takes approximately 15-16 hr. The trains operate overnight, departing in the afternoon/evening, arriving in the morning.

Saratov is also accessible via rail from Samara to the north (train 10 hours, 400 km) and Volgograd and Astrakhan to the south. The St. Petersburg-Astrakhan' line passes through Saratov. It takes about 26 hours to travel from St. Petersburg to Saratov on train.

By bus [ edit ]

There are also buses between Saratov and many other cities, including Moscow. However, the comfort and value of the rail system over the vast distances involved makes the bus service a comparatively unattractive option.

Get around [ edit ]

Taxis [ edit ]

If you don't want to go through the trouble of finding the correct route number, taxis are a widely available option. Yandex Taxi or its many competitors are a reliable way to get around, as you can order a taxi via an app for a predefined price (also in English).

Walking [ edit ]

Saratov is not exactly a small city, but its main pedestrian area along Prospekt Stolypina and onwards to the Volga is definitely walkable. There are plenty of well-marked pedestrian crossings and drivers do stop (because they get very serious fines if they don't).

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The usual Russian souvenirs such as matryoshkas are available in Saratov, although if travelling through Moscow it is probably best to wait to get them there as they will be cheaper.

The markets in Saratov are useful spots to pick up winter clothes if necessary, including coats, boots, leather gloves and of course hats. Haggling is indulged.

Prospekt Kirova is the most upmarket shopping area in the city, with fancy boutiques selling expensive shoes, bags and jewellery. There are branches for Mango, Nike, Reebok, Adidas, United Colors of Benetton, and L'Occitane among others. Also on Prospekt Kirova is an excellent tobacconist, selling all kinds of pipes and tobacco including hookah pipes, as well as a speciality tea shop.

Barrikada, on Ulitsa Gorkogo, is an excellent alternative music store that sells legitimate (i.e. non-pirate) albums and music DVDs at prices much cheaper than in Western Europe, and stocks a diversity of artists unparalleled by even Moscow's gargantuan Gorbushka market.

Electronics can be purchased from one of the city's branches of El Dorado (one particularly large one is on the embankment near the river station).

Dom Knigi, the book shop on the corner of Ulitsa Volskaya and Prospekt Kirova, has an English language section and is also a good spot to pick up postcards, maps and souvenirs such as books of old postcard views of Saratov. Noviy Knizhniy, on the fourth floor of the Aurora Shopping Center (Chapaeva and Sovetskaya), also features an English language section. Grab a coffee at the nearby cafe, bring your laptop, and enjoy the free wireless on the fourth floor.

Despite its name, Detsky Mir ('Children's World') at the top of Prospekt Kirova near McDonalds, stocks all kinds of everything (clothes, accessories, stationery, hipflasks, penknives...) in cabinets, behind counters, and at individually manned stalls. TsUM (Tsentralniy Universalniy Magazin, 'Central Universal Store') across the way is a similar sort of operation.

Credit cards are widely accepted in Saratov, even in small businesses like coffee spots and market stands. However, note that foreign VISA/MasterCard credit cards are not accepted as of 2022. If you have a Russian bank account, Russia's QR code-based quick payment system SBP is accepted nearly everywhere. Otherwise it is a good idea to bring cash in RUB (or EUR/USD and exchange in a bank). During the Christmas period banks have a very limited schedule of hours. Western Union transfers are very difficult if they are made to a foreigner since rules require not just a passport but that the passport be notarized by a Russian notary. There is a translation service on Bolshaia Kazakshia near the junction with Astrakhan street on the right when facing back towards the town centre.

While there are money exchanges at both the Saratov airport and train station, the hours of operation are limited. Usually there are men in the train station who will exchange US dollars but at bad rates and with the risk of getting counterfeited rubles. Euros are probably easier to work with in Saratov. ATMs give good rates but the payouts are limited. Never take travellers cheques. Only Sberbank and only the main branch will deal with them and it takes 6-8 hr to go through the process.

Eat [ edit ]

Cafe Fortuna, above an internet cafe on Prospekt Kirova, is reliable for good Russian food like blini, borshch and solyanka, as well as omelettes and chips and the like.

Papa's Irish Bar, also on the Prospekt, serves a decent menu including a fry and Irish stew, as well as other slightly Russified Western pub food.

There is a Tinkoff Restaurant and Bar in Saratov. Tinkoff hosts live groups, as it does in its other locations in Russia. Decor inside is clean and swanky, with dimmed lights and lounge-style tables. The food is overpriced and uninspiring. Expect to go through security by stocky bouncers if you arrive to see a concert.

There are a number of passable sushi restaurants around, while street food like shwarma and hot pirogi are readily available.

There is also an ice-cream parlour called Pingvin on the Prospekt and a Baskin Robbins by the multi-coloured church off the end of the Prospekt.

Near the circus there is perhaps Russia's only branch of Papa John's Pizza. Like many American fast-food imports, Russian Papa John's appears to be a decent, sit-down restaurant. The restaurant provides free wireless to its guests.

Saratov is also home to a locally-owned chain of overpriced coffee shops called Vostok-Zapad ('East-West'), where no two cappuccinos are ever the same (or, indeed, ever much like a cappuccino). They are, however, a pleasant place to hang out and the coffee is decent enough, if not exactly what you may have in mind but the quality is consistently better than the used dishwater served in most US and UK branded coffee chains. Another café is Café et Chocolat which, as the name suggests, is a French-style establishment, serving crepes and pastries. They have several branches.

Drink [ edit ]

Bars along the main pedestrian street, Prospekt Kirova, include Pivnoy Zavod (Beer Factory, a microbrewery); Papa's Irish Pub; Pivnoy Bul'var (with American pool tables as well as Russian billiards); and Grand Michel (with bowling).

There are also numerous wine bars around the city where wine can be sampled by the cup.

Saratov's main nightclubs include Jumanji and Ars. Both operate rigorous security checks (metal detectors and body searches are par for the course) and face control policies (nonwhite ethnic minorities may be refused point blank).

In summer, barges along the naberezhnaya (embankment) become floating bars and clubs.

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Considering that Saratov is a city where it snows for the better part of the year, you'd think the city's authorities would have learned to deal with the snow and ice – and you'd be wrong. Compacted snow covers practically all roads and sidewalks throughout the winter; it is cleared away really only on the main pedestrian street (Prospekt Stolypina) and in front of government buildings. Be super careful when walking near roofs and balconies – icicles can fall down without notice and have even killed people. Also pay attention to snow sliding down from the roof. If you see (printed or handwritten) signs with many exclamation points and/or fingers pointing upwards on the side of a building, don't walk under it!

If you drive yourself, note that most major streets are one-way streets. Road markings are often not visible (especially in winter, when roads are completely covered in snow). The road quality varies a lot, but do expect potholes (and people swerving to avoid them) and not-so-level level crossings across tram and railroad tracks.

There are stray dogs and they might have rabies. If you spot a dog without owner, it's best to make a large detour around it. This is especially true if there are multiple dogs.

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Just opposite Saratov, on the other side of the Volga, is the smaller town of Engels , accessible via a quick bus journey across the bridge. Catch the bus on Ulitsa Moskovskaya or take a taxi (walking across the bridge is not recommended).

Other towns in the Saratov Oblast , accessible via marshrutka, include Marks, Balakovo, Atkarsk, and Volsk.

There are shared minibuses that drive across the Russian- Kazakh border to Uralsk , usually leaving very early in the morning.

You can take a train to the neighboring regions, such as Volgograd , Tambov , Penza , Samara , and Voronezh .

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Girl, 8, Is Sole Survivor of Bus Plunge: ‘No One Can Explain This Miracle’

Forty-five church pilgrims from Botswana, along with the driver, were killed when the bus plunged off an overpass into a rocky ravine in South Africa. The only survivor was a little girl.

By John Eligon and Yvonne Mooka

Reporting from Molepolole, Botswana

Lauryn Siako is the rare 8-year-old who springs out of bed to get herself ready for church, her family said. She loves the singing, the dancing, the worshiping.

So when leaders of her church announced that they were resuming the enormous annual Easter pilgrimage to church headquarters in South Africa this year, after a four-year hiatus for Covid-19, Lauryn pleaded with her mother to let her go for the first time.

Lauryn and her grandmother boarded a bus in their home village of Molepolole, Botswana, on Wednesday night with 43 fellow members of the St. Engenas Zion Christian Church, excited for the experience of a lifetime.

But by the following morning, Lauryn was the only one of the 45 passengers still alive.

The driver lost control of the bus on a sharp turn, and it careened off a high overpass on Mmamatlakala Mountain in northeastern South Africa, plunging 165 feet into a rocky ravine and bursting into flames. The driver and all of his passengers perished, except, inexplicably, the stringy girl who had just received her passport a week before the trip and had guarded it closely. She escaped with minor lacerations, South African health officials said.

“How did she come out of that bus?” Lauryn’s tearful mother, Gaolebale Siako, said on Friday, sitting in the modest home where Lauryn had lived with her grandmother in Molepolole, repeating a question she has been asking herself over and over.

“It’s hard to explain,” she added. “I’m hurt that I lost my mom and other people, but I’m also comforted knowing that my child is alive.”

As investigators continued searching for remains and answers as to what happened on Friday, church members questioned how the bus ended up on a treacherous, winding mountain road that they had never taken before in many journeys to the church headquarters in Moria, South Africa.

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Kabelo Joseph Selome, a local ward councilor and a cousin of Lauryn’s mother, said in an interview in Botswana that the bus had been following two cars carrying church elders. But when the cars took a turn, the bus failed to follow — suggesting that the bus driver was lost, said Mr. Selome, who had spoken with the elders.

The police were investigating the crash as a case of culpable homicide, according to a statement, though they did not provide further details.

Emergency responders found Lauryn outside the bus with minor lacerations to her arms, legs, head and back, said Thilivhali Muavha, a spokesman for the chief health official in Limpopo Province, where the crash occurred. She was in stable condition on Friday, Mr. Muavha said.

Mr. Muavha said the authorities had not yet determined how the girl was able to survive such a devastating crash.

“All we can say is that we are happy that she was found alive,” he said.

The family has been speculating about how Lauryn survived, said Ms. Siako, 38. They wonder whether Lauryn’s grandmother, Onkemetse Siako, 61, threw her out of the window before the crash.

“No one can explain this miracle,” said Mr. Selome, the cousin.

The family learned at a briefing with police officials from Botswana on Friday, Mr. Selome said, that Lauryn had provided a lot of information to the South African authorities. She told them where the bus was coming from and where it was going, and even gave them her mother’s phone number.

The family now wonders whether God saved the young girl so that she could assist the authorities.

Lauryn was her grandmother’s favorite because she was so obedient, relatives said. The two lived together while Lauryn’s mother was away working, and they were inseparable. She got her cooking skills and independent mind from her grandmother, they said. She would wash and iron her own clothes and cook for the family — she baked bread the morning of the trip.

Lauryn was ranked second in her class, relatives said. She wanted to perform in a beauty pageant at school, but she was not picked because she walked too slowly and with her shoulders slumped, said her mother, who works as a safety and health official at a construction site.

Her mother told her to prepare not to sleep much at the Easter gathering. The praying, singing, dancing and prophesying happens on a field at night, and the energy is so high that the congregants rarely go to bed.

Ms. Siako said there was always a lot of excitement in simply traveling to the Easter gathering, which attracts millions of worshipers, and in seeing all the buses gathered at Moria.

The Zion Christian Church split into two branches in the middle of the 20th century after a dispute between the founder’s sons. Members of the St. Engenas branch wear a badge with a dove, while the other, larger branch, simply called the Zion Christian Church, wear a star. Their beliefs are virtually the same, said Joel Cabrita, a history professor at Stanford University in California, who has written a book about the church. They belong to a broader Zionist Christian movement in Africa that counts around 15 million members, the largest denomination in southern Africa.

While the St. Engenas branch decided to restart its pilgrimage this year, the other branch still has not.

The South African police confirmed on Friday that the passengers on the bus, along with the driver, were citizens of Botswana making the journey from Molepolole, a village that is considered the gateway to the vast Kalahari Desert.

As of Friday afternoon, 34 bodies had been recovered, the police said. Only nine of them were identifiable, with the others burned beyond recognition.

The tragedy cast a cloud over Botswana, a heavily Christian nation of about 2.5 million that was preparing to celebrate the Easter weekend.

Ms. Siako and other relatives said they worried about how this tragedy would affect Lauryn’s mental state. It is unclear when family members might be able to travel to South Africa to visit her in the hospital, or when she will be able to return home.

“I cry a lot,” Ms. Siako said. “I’m just worried, how is she right now?”

She said she pictured her daughter alone at the bottom of the ravine after the crash, and wondered whether she was scared and crying. “I’m asking myself,” she said, “did she even see what really happened?”

Ultimately, though, the miracle of Lauryn’s survival might be all this devastated community has to help it heal right now.

“This girl, just her being alive, is comforting the whole family,” Mr. Selome said. “This girl is giving us strength.”

John Eligon is the Johannesburg bureau chief for The Times, covering a wide range of events and trends that influence and shape the lives of ordinary people across southern Africa. More about John Eligon

UPDATE: Dashcam video released in deadly school bus crash in Austin area

B ASTROP, Texas (AP) — A cement truck veered into a school bus carrying more than 40 pre-K students returning from a field trip to a Texas zoo on Friday, March 22, killing a boy on the bus and a man in another vehicle, authorities said.

Officials said the bus rolled over on the highway in the rural outskirts of Austin, where a heavy presence of emergency vehicles shut down traffic for hours. The roof of the bus was crumpled, and much of another vehicle nearby was pulverized. Personal items were strewn across the road.

Four people in critical condition were airlifted from the crash site. Six others with potentially serious injuries were transported by ambulance, said Kevin Parker, division chief Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services.

An ambulance bus transported about 10 other patients to a children’s hospital with minor injuries, Parker said. Passengers on the bus included 44 students and 11 adults, according to the Hays Consolidated Independent School District.

Ulises Rodriguez Montoya, the child who died, “was a precious young boy” who was a pre-K student at Tom Green Elementary School in Buda, according to Eric Wright, school district superintendent.

Wright said in addition to the two people who died, 51 others were injured, including the bus driver.

“This is a horrible and tragic day for our school district,” Wright said.

The bus was struck at about 2 p.m. when the concrete truck, which was traveling in the opposite direction, veered into the bus’ lane, Texas Department of Public Safety Sgt. Deon Cockrell said. He added that authorities told him initial information indicated the truck hit the bus head-on, causing it to roll over.

The man who was killed was in a vehicle that either ran into the back of the bus or maybe part of the concrete truck, Cockrell said. There was one person in the truck and one man in the other vehicle. Cockrell didn’t know how fast the vehicles were going. He said the truck driver was cooperating with authorities.

Parents of the students on the bus were notified of the crash and all the children were reunited with their families by the evening, Wright said.

Cynthia Yescas said her 4-year-old nephew had been on the bus and that he was OK, but a little hurt,  the Austin American-Statesman reported .

“The kids are more scared than anything else,” she said.

The bus didn’t have seatbelts because it was a 2011 model, Tim Savoy, a Hays school district spokesperson, told the newspaper. New buses have been fitted with belts since 2017, he said.

Gov. Greg Abbott said in a post on the social media platform X that he spoke with the district superintendent “and offered the state’s full support as they help their community through this tragedy.”

State Rep. Erin Zwiener, whose district includes Buda, said in a post on Facebook that her heart goes out to the families affected.

“In this terrible moment, our community must come together to support those who’ve lost loved ones and those who are recovering,” she wrote, also thanking first responders and school district employees who she said “saved lives today.”

Buda is about 16 miles (25 kilometers) southwest of Austin.