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Ebrahim Kebe, 4, Killed by Driver in the Bronx, No Charges Filed

By Brad Aaron | Jun 20, 2012 | 8 Comments

A 4-year-old child was killed while playing outside his home on a residential street in the Bronx on Tuesday. Ebrahim Kebe was struck by the driver of a minivan on Topping Avenue in Mount Hope at approximately 6 p.m., according to reports. He was pronounced dead at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital. Like clockwork, the Post weighed in […]

Taxi Driver Rep Bhairavi Desai: Speed Enforcement Is a Government Scam

By Brad Aaron | Jun 20, 2012 | 22 Comments

The Times ran a story yesterday on the supposedly improving outlook for state speed camera legislation. The bills have failed to gain traction in Albany for several years running and have yet to clear either house this session, though the Senate version has picked up a sponsor in Staten Island Republican Andrew Lanza. Speeding-related crashes […]

Memo to New York Post: Dooring Is Illegal, Not a “Freak Accident” [Updated]

By Brad Aaron | Jun 18, 2012 | 33 Comments

Update: The victim has been identified by NY1 as Tskaka Cooke, 39. The Times-Ledger also filed a report on the crash. The New York Post story on the crash that killed a cyclist in Fresh Meadows this weekend is a textbook example of press corps victim-blaming. Here are the facts of the crash, as related […]

My MSNBC Biking Story: Chris Hayes

By Ben Fried | Jun 14, 2012 | 34 Comments

Here’s an intriguing promo from the cable news network that’s ahead of the pack when it comes to livable streets. MSNBC host Chris Hayes is pitching his show with a foreshortened look at his Brooklyn-to-Rock Center bike commute. You’ll have to forgive the sidewalk riding that bookends the trip. Brooklyn Bridge Park, the Brooklyn Bridge […]

Times’ Ped Plaza-Bashing Queens Reporter Enjoys Using Queens Ped Plaza

By Brad Aaron | Jun 8, 2012 | 16 Comments

What is it with the New York Times and the Jackson Heights pedestrian plaza? Yesterday, the paper published a piece by Sarah Maslin Nir on a mugger in the plaza who was tackled to the ground by witnesses. It’s a good story — two of the good Samaritans were missionaries up from North Carolina, another […]

NY1 Poll: 68% Correctly Believe Drivers Cause Most NYC Traffic Crashes

By Brad Aaron | May 17, 2012 | 6 Comments

NY1 today announced the results of a traffic safety poll, conducted by Marist, which asked New Yorkers whom they blame for most city traffic crashes. The results, as reported by the affable Roger Clark and Pat Kiernan: 68 percent of those polled city-wide believe motorists are responsible for the majority of crashes, 19 percent think […]

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