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Google-Funded Pundit: Forget Transit, the Future Belongs to Robocars

By Angie Schmitt | May 16, 2012 | No Comments

Last week Salon ran a pretty horrendous piece on the future of transportation called “Oops — Wrong Future.” Writer Michael Lind argued that the “case for infrastructure investment has suffered from the lack of a plausible vision of the next American infrastructure.” Things that are not “plausible,” according to Lind, include “renewable energy and mass […]

CBS 2: Careless Pedestrians Walking Into Cars, Sinkholes, Hungry Bears

By Brad Aaron | May 10, 2012 | 14 Comments

Ft. Lee police chief Thomas Ripoli has had it with people getting hit by cars. So he’s taken the logical step: ordering a crackdown on pedestrians. “Pedestrians are now the new threat to street safety,” warns CBS 2’s Kristine Johnson, before segment reporter Derricke Dennis runs down the list of common misadventures the chronically distracted get […]

Fox 5 Anchors Scotto and Kelly Set New Low for NYC Transpo Reporting

By Noah Kazis | May 9, 2012 | 40 Comments

Fox 5’s Good Day New York unleashed a torrent of bile for bike, bus, and pedestrian improvements, seasoned with a healthy dose of unprofessionalism, in a pair of segments focused on bike-share this morning. First, co-anchors Greg Kelly (son of Ray) and Rosanna Scotto had DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan on, taking a ten minute break […]

Memo to Daily News: Local NYC Streets Could Also Use State DOT Attention

By Brad Aaron | May 3, 2012 | 2 Comments

After two crashes in six years that caused 13 fatalities and an outcry from an indignant press corps suddenly obsessed with traffic safety, the New York State Department of Transportation has turned its attention to the Bronx River Parkway. The concrete barriers planned for the parkway seem designed to facilitate speeding, but the state DOT […]

Dan Fellegara Killed by Cab Driver in Manhattan, No Charges Filed

By Brad Aaron | Apr 30, 2012 | 15 Comments

An outlaw committed suicide on Sixth Avenue early Sunday morning. At least that’s how the death of Dan Fellegara was reported by the Post and Daily News. Fellegara, a construction manager from Baltimore who, according to most accounts, was 29, was crossing Sixth at Watts Street in Soho at around 4:30 a.m. when he fell […]

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