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New Report Examines the Media’s Role in the Gas Tax Debate

By Elana Schor | May 26, 2010 | No Comments

Chart: University of Vermont Transportation Research Center The success of state-level plans to increase gas taxes is tied to the media’s portrayal of the proposals in question, with narratives tied to "crumbling infrastructure" and "economic progress" showing more success than those emphasizing long-term transportation budget gaps, according to a new report released by the University […]

Brooklyn Paper on PPW: Double-Parking Takes Precedence Over Safety

By Ben Fried | May 7, 2010 | 18 Comments

The self-hating cyclists at the Brooklyn Paper are at it again. A year after siding with a handful of merchants who wanted to erase the Fifth Avenue bike lane, Gersh Kuntzman and the editors of Brooklyn’s flagship media property say they don’t want to see a protected, two-way bike path on Prospect Park West: Gersh […]

Anonymous Bike Lane Opponent Scores Media Coup on NY1

By Ben Fried | Apr 21, 2010 | 14 Comments

Will we ever see the headline "Bike Lane Opponent Resorts to Misinformation and Lies"? Image: NY1 This report on the proposed Prospect Park West bike lane from NY1’s Jeanine Ramirez doesn’t quite stoop to Marcia Kramer levels of fabrication, but that might make it even more insidious. Slap together a few shots of ill-informed people […]

Reality Check: A Small Fraction of NYC Streets Have Bike Lanes

By Ben Fried | Apr 14, 2010 | 30 Comments

Kramer on the "already-congested" Prospect Park West. Cross motorhead journo Marcia Kramer with sidewalk-hogging Brooklyn Beep Marty Markowitz and this is the unholy offspring that you get: A skewed news segment on the proposed Prospect Park West bike lane, where facts don’t matter and wild assumptions go unchallenged. Kramer followed up last week’s hack-job on […]

Do You Walk in NYC? Then You Don’t Matter to CBS2’s Marcia Kramer

By Ben Fried | Apr 7, 2010 | 20 Comments

Kramer explains the horror of giving pedestrians more space. No one warps a two-minute segment about New York City pedestrian improvements quite like CBS2 reporter Marcia Kramer. The venerable TV newser, who’s perfected the art of windshield perspective journalism, fired a salvo against the city’s public plaza program on the 6 o’clock broadcast yesterday. This […]

On American Streets, “Freak Accidents” Are Freakishly Common

By Brad Aaron | Mar 23, 2010 | 8 Comments

This week Sarah has pointed to two bloggers making the case for the removal of both "avid cyclist" and "alternative transportation" from the livable streets lexicon. When it comes to media write-ups of traffic crashes, we nominate "freak accident" to the list of terms slated for obsolescence. Joshua Delarosa. Photo via Daily News Monday morning, […]

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