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After Jill Abramson’s Powerful Traffic Violence Piece, What Now for the NYT?

By Stephen Miller | May 5, 2014 | 7 Comments

Over the weekend, the New York Times ran a powerful piece by executive editor Jill Abramson about recovering from injuries sustained on city streets, based on her own experience and those of three other Times employees. Their stories, along with accompanying maps of New York City’s most dangerous intersections, conveyed the widespread and profound impact of traffic […]

Can Vision Zero Survive NYC’s Tabloid Editorial Boards?

By Ben Fried | Apr 14, 2014 | 4 Comments

New mayor. New DOT commissioner. Same old myopic Daily News editorial board. The opinion writers who spent four years undermining the implementation of safer street designs want “clear and transparent data” from Mayor de Blasio’s Vision Zero initiative. Good idea, right? But when the data is right under their noses, they’re still not satisfied. In […]

NYPD and the Press Parrot Driver’s Account of Crash That Killed Lisa Julian

By Brad Aaron | Mar 28, 2014 | 17 Comments

Yesterday’s fatal East Village crash is another example of how NYPD and the press blame deceased pedestrians and cyclists based mostly on the word of the drivers who killed them. “Woman, 47, crossing against light in NoHo struck by car, killed on Thursday,” read the Daily News headline. But the only evidence presented that Lisa […]

Marlene Baharlias, 77, Killed by Motorist, Blamed by NYPD and the Post

By Brad Aaron | Mar 19, 2014 | 12 Comments

A senior was killed Tuesday in Sheepshead Bay by a driver who witnesses say backed onto a sidewalk — contrary to anonymous NYPD sources who told the Post the victim was jaywalking. No charges were filed. Marlene Baharlias, 77, was walking home from the doctor with her husband when the driver of a Mercedes SUV backed onto the curb […]

It’s Not the Bike Lane, Stupid: Double-Parking Caused By Poor Curb Policies

By Ben Fried | Feb 27, 2014 | 21 Comments

Probably the dumbest part of a stupendously dumb Post story about double-parking tickets and the Columbus Avenue bike lane is this: The controversial bike path from West 110th Street down to West 77th Street claimed a lane of traffic — even though it is parallel to more preferable cycling routes on Riverside Drive or in […]

Post Wonders What Woman Did to Get Herself Run Over by Cab Driver

By Brad Aaron | Feb 5, 2014 | 19 Comments

It used to be that the tabloids would focus on any mistake by an injured or deceased pedestrian while ignoring what a motorist did, or didn’t do, to cause a crash. Now, in the absence of actual evidence that a pedestrian was in any way at fault, the Post has taken to spreading innuendo. Yesterday […]

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