Article: Con Edison accepts blame for Teachers College student's death

Carla Zanoni
University Wire
02-05-2004
(Columbia Daily Spectator) (U-WIRE) NEW YORK -- After a critique from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration in the weeks following the Jan. 16 death of Teachers College student Jodie Lane, Con Edison has released two reports accepting responsibility for the faulty wiring at the service box on East 11th Street and First Avenue in New York City, the site of Lane's death.

But many have found Con Edison's claim that the faulty wiring was an anomaly hard to believe. Citing a history of accidents and complaints about electrical shock on city streets as proof of the need for change in the energy company's repair system, community members are ...

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