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The San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) on Monday admitted wrongdoing and announced it would pay $5.5 million to the family of a 24-year-old man who in 2019 stopped breathing while being detained by two of their employees and died.
Angel Zapata Hernandez was detained by an MTS code compliance officer and a security officer after wandering onto the train platform at the Santa Fe Depot in downtown San Diego on Oct. 15, 2019. After Hernandez ran from officers, he was handcuffed by the two security personnel held face down on the concrete, at times with a knee to his back and neck, before he lost consciousness and later died in a hospital, MTS CEO Sharon Cooney said.
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Animal experts say pets often process loss in a manner similar to humans. In a recent newsletter published by the Funeral Consumer Alliance of Maine, researcher Jessica Pierce says a growing body of research into ‘animal thanatology’ suggests common pets such as dogs and cats seem to share with humans many behavioral reactions to death, such as mourning and rituals. officer Feb 25, 2020
When one of the New York Police Department’s horses loses a metal shoe, or they just wear out on the gritty city streets, a blacksmith shop on wheels rushes to the rescue, equipped with a 2,850-degree furnace and trained farriers who can make the fix on the spot. It’s like AAA for horses.
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Even if the city of San Diego never collects a dime in new hotel taxes under Measure C, the initiative may still leave its mark across the region for years to come.
The process and the politics engaged in by supporters of the initiative likely will be copied in subsequent efforts to make it easier to raise taxes for government by going outside government.
In the case of Measure C, courts will decide whether voters in March 2020 actually approved an increase to raise hotel taxes to finance an expansion of the waterfront convention center, homeless programs and road repairs.
San Diego MTS Sets FY22 Capex at $125MM
MTS is allocating $28.5 million for new SD100 LRVs as part of the FY22 capital improvement program.
The San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) Board has approved a $125 million capital improvement program for FY 2022, which includes $28.5 million for new SD100 light rail vehicles.
The LRV funds will be added to $109 million in previous funding for Siemens SD100 fleet replacement. By 2025, 47 LRVs will need to be replaced at an estimated cost of more than $216 million, according to MTS.
The agency operates three trolley lines (see map below) and 95 bus routes across 10 cities and unincorporated areas of San Diego County, Calif. Frequencies and spans have been restored to near-pre-COVID-19 levels, according to MTS.
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The police cruisers had been trailing her for miles when the red and blue lights she’d been bracing for started flashing.
Geneviéve Jones-Wright guided her car to the roadside and instead of an officer at her window, she heard urgent shouts and orders from behind.
“Get out of the car! Put your keys on the roof! Put your hands up!”
Officers pointed their guns, and a crowd began to form.
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Jones-Wright, then a deputy public defender for the County of San Diego, remembers asking several times why she was pulled over. When an officer said something about a stolen vehicle, she quickly explained the car was hers.