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Crain’s Asks: Should Manhattan Give Up on Bike Lanes?

By Ben Fried | Oct 13, 2010 | 8 Comments

This poll on the Crain’s site has been tearing through the Twitterverse rather ferociously this afternoon: I dunno. Should NYC call it quits after a few successful years of trying something new on the streets? Should the city give up on policies that are reducing injuries to pedestrians, cyclists and motorists? With bike traffic into […]

S.I. Advance: Capodanno Plagued By Speeding, So Get Rid of the Bike Lane

By Ben Fried | Sep 24, 2010 | 19 Comments

Earlier this week the Downtown Express injected some common sense into the public discussion about the value of bike lanes. With protected lanes on Ninth and Eighth Avenue now a valued safety improvement after facing some pushback at first, the paper predicted that initial complaints about the new lanes on the East Side will subside […]

Framing the New Broadway: “Green Ribbon” or “Narrow Passageway”?

By Charles Komanoff | Sep 7, 2010 | 17 Comments

Recession or depression? Estate taxes or death taxes? How events or policies are named, or “framed,” has become crucial to their viability. Indeed, the ascendancy of the right wing in the U.S. in recent decades is attributed in part to the Right’s mastery of political phraseology to demonize leftist and even centrist policies. Framing affects […]

“Bike Bedlam” Fact Check: NYC Bike-Ped Injuries Drop From Low to Lower

By Ben Fried | Aug 18, 2010 | 48 Comments

Editor’s note: Streetsblog has retracted this post. The information on bike-on-ped crashes is not accurate. Read the full correction for an explanation of how we acquired the erroneous data and how we determined it was incorrect. Pedestrian injuries sustained citywide in collisions with bicyclists pale beside the more than 10,000 pedestrian injuries and deaths sustained […]

What Sane, Responsible Bike Coverage Looks Like

By Ben Fried | Aug 18, 2010 | 4 Comments

Regrettably, the embed code for the opening volleys in CBS2’s "bike bedlam" series is busted, so you’ll have to actually visit the CBS2 site to watch the three-minute segments that ran in between Volkswagen and Hyundai spots the last two nights. Instead I’m posting the above video courtesy of the Beeb. It shows something I […]

Safer Streets Are Out of Control! A CBS2 Special Investigation

By Ben Fried | Aug 13, 2010 | 39 Comments

Before you get to the outrageous part of this post, first an announcement from reader Steve Vaccaro: If you get your fill of Summer Streets tomorrow by noon or earlier, please come by the Target Community Garden on East 117th Street between First and Pleasant Avenues, for a brunch hosted by Transportation Alternatives East Side […]

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