#drunk-driving

#drunk-driving

Prosecutors declared it open season on cyclists; nobody should be surprised at the horrifying results



A passerby leaves flowers in 2021 at the location where Wilma Chan was walking her dog in a crosswalk when a driver slammed into her.No charges were pressed against the driver.Photo: Streetsblog/Rudick
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SFMTA director talks about civility, even as he stereotypes people on bikes and pours gasoline on anti-cyclist fervor



SFMTA's Jeffrey Tumlin at Sunday Streets Valencia last summer.He said the street would see improvements by the end of 2022.Photo: Streetsblog/Rudick
Definition of stereotype, noun: 1) a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.

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A man will spend years behind bars after drunkenly crashing his car on the Gowanus Expressway and killing the passenger sitting in the front seat.Mark Dookhan, a 32-year-old Staten Island resident, was sentenced to 2 to 6 years in prison by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Jane Tully after he pled guilty to second-degree manslaughter in December.

Wednesday, December 21, 2022 by Jonathan Lee
A coalition of environmental groups last week announced its opposition to a proposed 5,000-seat concert venue at 14820 Fitzhugh Road, near Dripping Springs.The coalition, Stop Fitzhugh Concert Venue , says it's concerned about negative impacts the venue might bring to Barton Creek, as well as increased traffic on narrow country roads, drunk driving, and noise and light pollution members say would disrupt neighbors and harm wildlife.

Los Angeles Police Department officials said Tuesday that they will ask the City Council to reconsider a rule that allows officers accused of serious misconduct to have civilians decide their discipline - after a report found they routinely hand down lenient punishments.The lighter discipline issued by all-civilian hearing panels undercuts Chief Michel Moore's ability to run the LAPD and to hold officers accountable when they are found to have committed major offenses such as lying, according to the report by the LAPD's inspector general, Mark Smith.

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law has been in effect for a full year, but federal transportation officials still haven't implemented some of its most crucial safety provisions - and advocates and electeds say its time they step up to stem the record-setting tide of traffic deaths on U.S. roads
On Tuesday, a coalition of 10 Democratic Senators led by Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.)