Year: 2015
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San Diego Transit Agency Gives Final OK For Open Taxi Market
It’s official. San Diego now has an open taxi market. The Metropolitan Transit System Board of Directors Thursday approved in a 12-3 vote a proposal to lift the cap on the number of taxis on San Diego streets. Beginning in April, anyone who meets minimum requirements can apply for a permit to run a taxi…
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Their Crime: Walking Into Their Own Home
Last July, Luis and Diego Lobaton were returning to their family’s store in City Heights after sneaking a late-night cigarette. They expected a rebuke from their mother. A mother’s upbraiding turned out to be the least of their worries. As the brothers, along with Luis’ girlfriend, walked back to the store from up the street,…
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San Diego Bike Program For Ex-Offenders Takes Off
Transportation is crucial to getting around San Diego County and a new program will make it easier for ex-offenders to use refurbished bikes to get to work and other reentry programs. The program, Providing Ex-Offenders Driving Alternatives for Life or PEDAL, is sponsored by the San Diego Crime Commission. It sends donated or confiscated bikes…
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Council Members Tackle Questions of Race Relations, Community Involvement
Several City Council members said Wednesday that further engagement with the community is necessary to strengthen public trust in the San Diego Police Department — part of the fallout from fatal shootings of unarmed black men in Ferguson, Mo., and New York City. The comments at a meeting of the council’s Public Safety and Livable Neighborhoods…
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San Diego Council Members to Mayor: Make Our Neighborhoods a Budget Priority
And so it begins. The city of San Diego kicked off its six-month-long budget process Wednesday, and council members representing neighborhoods south of Interstate 8 were first up at the podium. Each budget season starts with the city’s nine council members finding consensus on what to fund and then forwarding their recommendations to the mayor.…