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WNBC Shames City for Letting Employees Hog Parking With Bogus Placards

By Stephen Miller | Jul 14, 2014 | 11 Comments

The next time you’re in a part of town where a lot of city employees work, take a look at the dashboards of cars occupying curbside parking spots. In neighborhoods across the city, you’ll see bogus placards that parking cheats use to evade meters and other regulations. In a two-part series, WNBC’s Tom Llamas traveled to Atlantic […]

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Portland Newscast Offers Biking Conditions With the Weather Report

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 25, 2014 | No Comments

Showers arrive early Wednesday afternoon. Best to get that bike ride in early. #fox12 pic.twitter.com/4b1pWX57mi — FOX 12 Oregon KPTV (@fox12oregon) June 25, 2014 Here’s a local newscast that’s getting something right. FOX 12 in Portland, Oregon, has taken to reporting the conditions for cycling along with the weather report. “They’ve been doing it for a […]

Marcia Kramer on Vision Zero: Why Isn’t City Hall Sticking It to Pedestrians?

By Stephen Miller | Jun 24, 2014 | 20 Comments

She’s back. Marcia Kramer is here to defend unsuspecting New Yorkers from Bill de Blasio and his nefarious goal to eliminate traffic deaths in the city. “The city says 250 New Yorkers are killed every year; 4,000 injured,” she began her report last night on WCBS. Okay, if the city says so. But as for the mayor’s […]

Anonymous NYPD Sources Blame Another Victim of Motorist Violence

By Brad Aaron | Jun 11, 2014 | 19 Comments

A motorist killed a cyclist near Citi Field Tuesday afternoon. The driver was ticketed for speeding, but true to form, anonymous police sources and the media blamed the victim for his own death. The crash happened on Roosevelt Avenue near 126th Street, under the elevated 7 train on the perimeter of the stadium, at around […]

NYPD Fails to Charge Driver Who Killed a Child in Red Hook This Morning

By Brad Aaron | Jun 2, 2014 | 138 Comments

A motorist killed a teenager in Red Hook this morning. Nicholas Soto, 14, was crossing Lorraine Street at Hicks Street at around 7:00 when the driver of a BMW sedan slammed into him. From WNBC: Witnesses said the force of the impact flung the boy up in the air and over a fence. Millie Mendez […]

NYPD Transpo Chief Breaks Down Street Safety Basics for Local Press

By Stephen Miller | May 13, 2014 | 54 Comments

At a press conference this morning unveiling a street safety redesign at 96th Street and Broadway on the Upper West Side, the first three questions from reporters were all about what the police are doing to deter jaywalking. So it was no surprise when, after a discussion of NYPD’s crackdown this week on drivers who […]

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