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A Smugger Version of This Weekend’s Backstabbing in the Daily News

By Ben Fried | May 20, 2013 | 21 Comments

This weekend you might have come across the anonymous Daily News editorial in which Arthur Browne’s opinion team called Paul Steely White “smug” for defending bike-share (in an opinion piece solicited by Arthur Browne’s opinion team). But is it smug to point out that New Yorkers who don’t own cars also deserve to have a […]

It’s Spring! Feel the Bike Hate Beaming From the New York Post

By Brad Aaron | Apr 26, 2013 | 90 Comments

Given the Post’s unequivocal hatred of people who ride bicycles, you’d think Col Allan’s tabloid would applaud DOT for assigning a small number of employees to encourage cyclists to ride in the direction of traffic and stop for pedestrians. Instead, the Post today attacked the “Street Safety Manager” program as a waste of taxpayer money, even […]

What It Looks Like When a Newspaper Actually Cares About Safe Streets

By Ben Fried | Apr 18, 2013 | 3 Comments

So yesterday the Daily News published an opinion piece on bike-share that framed it not as a new option for New Yorkers to get around, but as another tense, dangerous showdown in the eternal confrontation between bikes and cars. Yawn. Of course, the fact that bike-share systems from London to DC have excellent safety records is […]

There’s Still Nothing Special About a Million NYPD Traffic Summonses

By Brad Aaron | Mar 7, 2013 | 14 Comments

To read the Daily News analysis of 2012 summons data, you’d think NYPD has reckless driving completely under control. While the story throws out a lot of purportedly high figures, as usual the tabloid’s perspective is distorted by the windshield. NYPD issued a total of 1,020,754 moving violations last year [PDF]. That’s down slightly from […]

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