#transit-safety

#transit-safety

A Toronto man has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the recent shooting on a GO bus near the Yorkdale mall, police say. The 40-year-old man is accused of shooting a man on a bus at GO Transit's Yorkdale terminal in North York around 7 p.m. Sunday, Toronto police said in a news release Tuesday. The man allegedly fled the scene on foot, but was arrested shortly after.

Approval of all three New York City-area casino proposals became official on Monday when the state Gaming Commission green-lit plans for full table games and billions of dollars of new investment at three sites in Queens and the Bronx.

According to police, the suspected perpetrators, two men and one woman, approached the victim and began arguing with him. The suspects then punched and kicked the victim in the head and body and, at one point, brandished a knife, police say. They took the victim's black book bag, which police valued at roughly $46, and left the train at the Flatbush Avenue station and fled on foot to unknown locations.

For the first 11 months of the year, New York City had the lowest number of shooting incidents and victims in recorded history, and the safest November on our subways outside the pandemic period, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. These historic gains are the result of our precision policing strategy and officers executing that strategy with the discipline and dedication that defines this noble work.

BART officials say that an unstable individual with a knife barricaded themselves in the Hayward BART maintenance complex for about four hours Thursday morning, though that person has been taken into custody and trains are largely back on schedule. The service impacts are mostly straightened out at this point, but a very hairy situation unfolded early Thursday morning at the Hayward BART station.

AB 289, State highway work zone speed safety program: AB 289 would allow the state to use automated speed cameras to enforce speed limits in areas where roads are under construction or repair. AB 366, Ignition interlock devices: AB 366 would extend the operation of these provisions indefinitely after a driver is found guilty of a DUI and would repeal related reporting requirements. Read more. AB 394, Transit Safety Bill: AB 394 would expand existing legal protections offered to riders

David Mazariegos, 25, was arrested in Times Square and charged with murder, robbery and grand larceny. Mazariegos was arrested 17 times previously, including on a robbery charge, according to NewsNation local affiliate PIX11. Per WABC, Mazariegos told police he beat Tanzi and stomped on his head multiple times because he didn't like the way the victim was looking at him. "@GovKathyHochul has blood on her hands," Department of Transit Secretary Sean Duffy said on X Thursday.

The assault was reported just before midnight Sept. 29 at the Gish station at East Gish Road and North First Street, and responding deputies with the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office which polices Valley Transportation Authority transit lines found a 42-year-old man suffering from serious head injuries. An investigation determined that he had been severely beaten, and he was taken to a hospital. The sheriff's office said that he died around 11 p.m. Wednesday, 10 days after he was injured.

The Adams administration's North Star has always been public safety. New Yorkers want to be able to send their kids to school, go to work, shop in their local store, go out for dinner, and come home safely to their family and their community. They want to feel safe AND they want to be safe, and this administration has delivered that for them.

Los Angeles police are searching for a man suspected of stabbing and wounding another man during a confrontation aboard a Metro bus Saturday on the city's south side. Officers responded about 4 p.m. to a report of an assault on a Line 204 bus near Vermont Avenue and 29th Street, the LAPD told KCAL-TV. They found a 50-year-old man, who hasn't been identified, suffering from apparent stab wounds that were considered non-life threatening.

Critics say the death of Iryna Zarutska, 23, could have been prevented, and they're blaming officials for failing to keep a man with a history of mental illness, arrests and erratic behavior off the streets before he killed her. Trump wrote on his social media platform on Monday that "Criminals like this need to be LOCKED UP." The suspect, Decarlos Brown Jr., 34, had served time in prison, been briefly committed for schizophrenia

State, county, and local officials have called for better accountability and transparency regarding the replacement of tracks linked to the PATH derailment in Hoboken on July 12.