Are Jitneys dangerous?
The Star-Ledger reports on a state review:
They said nothing.
Yet by spending four hours attending a special state Assembly
Transportation Committee hearing on “jitney” bus safety in Hudson County
today — not even eight weeks after their infant daughter was killed in a
jitney accident — the parents of Angelie Paredes said everything.
They want to prevent what happened to their daughter from happening to anyone else’s child.
Eight-month-old Angelie died July 30, after a minibus toppled a lamppost onto her stroller in West New York.
Her death has become a clarion call for jitney safety that has been
heard 60 miles away in Trenton. The Assembly Transportation Committee
moved its meeting to Hudson County, where Angelie’s parents, Maylin Hago
Paredes and Jairo Paredes, listened to testimony yesterday about an
industry that Assemblyman John Wisniewski (D-Middlesex), transportation
committee chair, likened to “the Wild West.”
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1 comment:
The jitneys in this article are the often dangerous private minibuses that travel from Hudson County to the City. They have no relationship to our jitney, so none should be inferred.
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