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MTA Tests Bike Racks on Bus Across Verrazano

By Stephen Miller | Mar 10, 2015 | 19 Comments

An anonymously-sourced New York Post story yesterday might leave readers with the impression that new bike racks on the front of Staten Island buses will lead to late trips and a liability nightmare for the MTA. The MTA, however, says it’s still studying the racks — a tried-and-true amenity in every other big American city […]

The Post Imagines a Nightmare City Where All Speeders Get Caught

By Brad Aaron | Mar 3, 2015 | 28 Comments

You have to feel sorry for the three — three! — New York Post reporters stuck with attacking Mayor de Blasio for NYPD enforcement of the speed limit. It’s a story package so fatuous it could only have come from the Post editorial braintrust. What else could explain the manufactured fury over last November’s uptick […]

Parents of Seth Kahn: Ineffective MTA Protocols Contributed to Son’s Death

By Brad Aaron | Feb 27, 2015 | 7 Comments

After Wednesday’s MTA board meeting transit chief Tom Prendergast said the agency may revise bus routes to reduce the number of turns bus drivers have to make, in order to minimize conflicts between buses and pedestrians, according to the Daily News. Prendergast said another possibility would be to move crosswalks away from intersections where buses […]

How the Daily News Gets the Right of Way Law Completely Wrong

By Ben Fried | Feb 23, 2015 | 20 Comments

Bianca Petillo McCloud, 18, was walking across 132nd Avenue in Rochdale, Queens, when she was struck by a turning truck driver and killed. Police did not issue so much as a citation, even though the circumstances of the crash suggested that McCloud had the right of way. Nor did police issue any charges to the truck […]

Steve Matteo and NY1: A Speed Camera Is Working, So Vision Zero Is a Scam

By Brad Aaron | Jan 9, 2015 | 73 Comments

Speeding is the leading cause of fatal traffic crashes in New York City, and with unreliable police enforcement, cameras are essential to protecting New Yorkers from reckless drivers. Data released last summer showed that 20 speed cameras, covering a tiny fraction city streets, issued roughly as many speeding tickets in one month as NYPD did in […]

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Mother Jones Rang in 2015 By Blaming Drunk People for Getting Hit By Cars

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 6, 2015 | No Comments

This was the New Year’s revelry advice from Mother Jones, the left-wing, reader-supported magazine: Whatever you do, don’t walk anywhere after drinking. That’s because, Maddie Oatman writes, it makes you more likely to be struck by a driver. As the basis for her reporting, Oatman used some well worn stats from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. In […]

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