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MTA Stares Down Billion-Dollar Deficit as Liu and Weiner Mock Bridge Tolls

By Brad Aaron | Nov 10, 2008 | 20 Comments

Coverage of this transit crisis brought to you by Toyota. MTA chief Elliot Sander announced this morning that the city’s transit agency is up against a $1.2 billion budget deficit, and needs government aid or new sources of revenue to avoid fare increases or service cuts. But an expected recommendation by the Ravitch Commission to […]

Brooklyn Paper Launches New Transpo Beat

By Ben Fried | Oct 10, 2008 | 3 Comments

To complement your headlines today, check out the Brooklyn Paper’s trio of transportation/public space stories, grouped under a new beat that the paper is calling "Mean Streets." Pedestrians need safer bus stop on Myrtle Avenue Street art memorializes cyclist killed by bus People’s choice winner announced in "Reinventing Grand Army Plaza" design competition The "Mean […]

Pedestrian Fatalities Spark Few Media Questions, Zero Cries for “Justice”

By Brad Aaron | Oct 6, 2008 | 16 Comments

Early Saturday morning, two 26-year-old women were killed while trying to cross 14th Street at First Avenue in the East Village. According to the Daily News and other outlets, Stephanie Dees (right) and Ann Sullivan were both hit by a taxi traveling west on 14th, and Dees was hit by a second cab, apparently heading […]

Post: Pedestrian Injuries All in Good Fun

By Brad Aaron | Oct 2, 2008 | 5 Comments

Today’s New York Post features the wacky story of a motorist from the Bronx who — get this — drove through the window of a Midtown map store. A "befuddled" Rodney Bailey "left a West 43rd Street parking garage at about 8 a.m. and made a right turn into the front of a Hagstrom Map […]

Daily News, Betsy Gotbaum Come to the Aid of Parking Ticket Victims

By Brad Aaron | Sep 30, 2008 | 20 Comments

Yesterday we noted how it took a cyclist-involved collision to get the Daily News riled up over pedestrian fatalities. Regaining its senses, the paper today again turns its attention to the real victims: motorists. Specifically those who park illegally and are indiscriminately ticketed for doing so. Bronx business owners say parking agents are harassing customers […]

Daily News Finally Finds Injustice in Pedestrian Fatalities

By Brad Aaron | Sep 29, 2008 | 16 Comments

On average, a New York City pedestrian is killed by a car about every three days. It happened again on Friday, when six-year-old Clarente Turner (right) and his mother were hit by a runaway SUV as they stood in a median, holding hands, at Kings Highway and E. 95th St. in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. The […]

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