CEBU CITY – City-owned buses will be deployed to help ferry passengers who may be stranded as a result of the city under Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ) until Aug. 15. City Councilor James Cuenco said the deployment of 18 buses, which will offer rides, will start on Monday, Aug. 9. C
Citing infamous wrong-way wreck, D.A. slams plan to detour NYPD from crash probes
Updated Feb 24, 2021;
Posted Feb 24, 2021
Pedro Abad, a former cop in Linden, N.J., was convicted in a drunken, fatal crash on the West Shore Expressway. (Staten Island Advance)NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Citing a former cop’s fatal wrong-way crash on Staten Island, District Attorney Michael E. McMahon slammed a proposal that would make the city Department of Transportation the lead agency to probe deadly car accidents.
The NYPD Highway District Collision Investigation Squad (CIS) currently heads probes of life-threatening crashes on Staten Island and throughout New York City.
Last year Chicago’s Congress Parkway, the southern border of the Loop, was renamed for local resident Ida B. Wells, the renowned investigative journalist, anti-lynching activist, and suffragist. It was the first-ever downtown Chicago roadway to be named for an African-American woman.
Right now aldermen are considering an ordinance to rename a much more iconic roadway for another local Black trailblazer. As originally reported by Block Club’s Alex Nitkin, the group Black Heroes Matter has long called for renaming Lake Shore Drive for Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, who established a trading post near the modern-day Michigan Avenue bridge. Regarded as the permanent first non-Native resident of the area, he is considered to be the founder of Chicago.