by KYW's Steve Tawa
Some federal court judges invoked "homeland security" concerns in their effort to see the "Ride The Ducks" staging area along Independence Mall go elsewhere. But others wonder privately if they just "don't like the view."
Councilman Frank DiCicco (file photo at right) told fellow council members that a group of federal judges i
n the courthouse at 6th and Market Streets wants the Ride The Ducks to move back to 5th Street:
"I'm not convinced yet, but I'll give the judges their day in court, if you will."
DiCicco's office and stakeholders along the mall -- the duck and tour operators, the independence visitor's center, and others -- spent more than two years resolving issues over how the various operators should stage their rides. They were moved from 5th to 6th Streets, between Market and Arch Streets.
In council chambers on unrelated matters was Edward Turzanski, a senior fellow at the Center for Terrorism and Counter-terrorism at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia:
"What was most striking was that the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI did not testify in the matter."
And there's a Ride The Ducks operation outside the FBI building in Washington, D.C., too:
"There's no there, there."
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