Op Ed by Dana Lerner: A Road Test for Cabbies
Published online yesterday in “The Spirit”, Dana Lerner writes about the ludicrously substandard driving requirements necessary to become a New York City cab driver. Read it here, at The Spirit
No Comfort that Cabbie is Charged with only a Traffic Infraction
News outlets covered the DA’s announcement that the cabbie who killed Cooper Stock was charged on Oct. 7 with failure to exercise due care and is facing a maximum of 15 days in jail and a $750 fine if found guilty of the traffic infraction. Dana Lerner, Cooper’s mother, and street-safety advocates were outraged Friday the cabbie was only hit with a violation.…
The Atlantic’s CITYLAB Picks Up On NY Times Op-Ed Piece
The Outrageous, Unjust Rule That Lets New York Drivers Who Hit Pedestrians Off the Hook by Eric Jaffee The Atlantic Monthly has a website called CityLab that “informs and inspires the people who are creating the cities of the future – and those who want to live there.” On October 1, 2014, one day after Dana…
Why Drivers Get Away With Murder – A New York Times Op-Ed piece written by Cooper’s Mom
Why Drivers Get Away With Murder On Tuesday, September 30, 2014, Cooper Stock’s mother, Dana Lerner, published an op-ed piece in The New York Times. Challenging the New York County DA’s office and the NYPD she states that “we don’t need more laws named for the victims (of these car crashes); we need to hold law…