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The Hypocrisy of Denis Hamill’s Blind Road Rage

By Ben Fried | Jan 30, 2013 | 31 Comments

How’s this for some cognitive dissonance? Daily News columnist Denis Hamill, whose stock-in-trade is bitter nostalgia, went off yesterday on the city’s efforts to make streets safer for biking. The rant is straight out of the John Cassidy mold — basically, Hamill wants you to know that cyclists today have it easy because, unlike himself, […]

Despite Awful Track Record, Plaza NIMBYs Always Good for a Quote

By Brad Aaron | Jan 28, 2013 | 5 Comments

In case you missed it, the Brooklyn Paper ran a by-the-numbers NIMBY react piece on a public plaza that has been proposed for Broadway near Bedford Avenue. Though DOT has installed dozens of successful, community-backed plazas across the city, reporter Danielle Furfaro leads her story with typical narrow-minded complaints and baseless predictions. Furfaro says the […]

New York AAA Guy: If Drivers Broke the Law, There’d Be Carnage

By Brad Aaron | Jan 14, 2013 | 16 Comments

Any member of AAA who is at all concerned about road safety should take note of comments made in the New York Post this weekend by AAA New York spokesperson Robert Sinclair. In a typically shallow anti-bike piece filed by Jennifer Fermino and David Seifman, the Post calls on Sinclair — along with Michael Sampo, […]

Myth Busted: Safer Streets Are Not Slowing Emergency Responders

By Brad Aaron | Jan 3, 2013 | 9 Comments

A go-to NIMBY argument against safe street improvements is that bike lanes, pedestrian plazas, and ped refuge islands interfere with emergency responders. In 2009, one complainer at an event sponsored by then-Council Member Alan Gerson claimed that pedestrian islands on Grand Street “put lives in danger” by slowing down fire trucks and ambulances. Opponents of the […]

No Charges Filed as Five Pedestrians Killed in City Traffic in Six Days

By Brad Aaron | Dec 19, 2012 | 6 Comments

In the last six days, five pedestrians have been killed by motorists and a sixth victim was reported “likely to die” in crashes in four boroughs. At 3:15 this morning, a 31-year-old man was struck by a driver at Francis Lewis Boulevard and 246th Street in the Rosedale section of Queens. The killer fled the scene. Police […]

Help Make Sense of Crazy Steve Cuozzo

By Ben Fried | Dec 13, 2012 | 15 Comments

So, Streetsblog is well past the point of bothering to rationally rebut anything that Post columnist Steve Cuozzo has to say on the subject of re-engineering streets for greater safety. The man clearly has a few screws loose, and, in the words of midtown BID impresario Dan Biederman, “He doesn’t know this field. He just […]

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