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WPIX Long Island Reporter Rob Hoell Eats Marcia Kramer’s Lunch

By Ben Fried | Feb 17, 2011 | 15 Comments

Here’s the piece about the Prospect Park West bike lane that ran on the Channel 11 News last night. While it would have been great to see more of the data showing the success of the redesign, WPIX Long Island reporter Rob Hoell gets a lot of the good political details into the segment: The […]

Have You Seen the Latest Marcia Kramer Segment on Prospect Park West?

By Ben Fried | Feb 14, 2011 | 66 Comments

Hey, have you seen Marcia Kramer’s latest segment about Prospect Park West? It’s at least her third piece on a single Brooklyn bike lane in the last year. You can tell she’s had some practice — take a look (sorry about the minivan ad you’ll have to sit through first): If you only got your […]

On Bicycle Coverage and Media Bias

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Feb 11, 2011 | 30 Comments

Since I’ve been producing Streetfilms (at last count, 196 of them), rarely do I come across work in our field that I find monumentally enlightening, savvy, or high-caliber. But the latest blog post from David Hembrow’s “A View from the Cycle Path…” contains an embedded video produced by Mark Wagenbuur that left me in awe. […]

Victim’s Mother Shames CBS2 for Using Traffic Death to Bolster Carl Kruger

By Ben Fried | Feb 10, 2011 | 27 Comments

Last December, Sonia King lost her son Jason after a truck driver backed up illegally and ran over him while he was in the crosswalk on Madison Avenue at 81st Street, walking to work. The next month, she watched a Marcia Kramer segment on CBS2 about State Senator Carl Kruger’s bid to ban walking while […]

Daily News to Cyclists: You Don’t Count

By Ben Fried | Feb 8, 2011 | 17 Comments

In today’s Daily News, cartoonist Bill Bramhall continues the paper’s recent assault on Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan and the city’s efforts to make biking safer. He manages to simultaneously imply that New Yorkers who bike are a freakish spectacle and that they don’t exist. According to the most recent Department of Health survey, more than […]

In Attack on Sadik-Khan, the Daily News Can’t Get Its Facts Straight

By Ben Fried | Feb 7, 2011 | 6 Comments

It looks like the Daily News could use some fact checkers for their weekend editorials. While the Daily News editorial staff has done some bravura work on transit funding, their DOT hit job this Sunday is riddled with more errors than a paranoid rant from the keyboard of Steve Cuozzo. In a bid to discredit […]

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