To This New Yorker, NYC Drivers Seem Almost Homicidal
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Inspired by Michael Levin's recent piece in the Daily News.
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NYPD and the Paranoid Narcissist’s View of Change on NYC Streets
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Police park for free everywhere and observe the city through their windshields. They think most New Yorkers share this point of view, but they're badly mistaken.
The 4 Biggest Sins Committed By Reporters Covering Pedestrian Deaths
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Each year, motorists on American streets kill nearly 5,000 pedestrians. The loss of life is enormous — equivalent to 12 jumbo jets crashing with no survivors — but the steady drumbeat of pedestrian fatalities doesn’t register as an urgent public safety crisis. Maybe it would seem more urgent if the press covered pedestrian deaths as the preventable […]
When Media Outlets Cover Delivery Cyclists, They Rarely Talk to Them
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NYC’s mostly-immigrant food delivery cyclists don’t have it easy, working on car-centric streets through all sorts of weather, all while under pressure to make their deliveries as quickly as possible. But media coverage of delivery cyclists tends to dehumanize them, failing to convey their perspective or consider the difficult working conditions they contend with. That’s the conclusion […]
Vox Pulls Back the Curtain on “Scam” to Save Lives With Red Light Cameras
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You can usually count on Vox for accurate, research-based explainers of public policy issues. That’s why the new Vox video on red light cameras is so monumentally disappointing. Researchers have established that red light cameras make streets safer by reducing potentially fatal T-bone collisions, though they do lead to more rear-end crashes, which tend not to be very serious. […]
Victim-Blaming Commences After Bruckner Boulevard Claims Another Life
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A motorist struck and killed a man last night on Bruckner Boulevard, a Bronx street designed to facilitate speeding and one of the borough’s most dangerous places to walk. The victim was attempting to cross Bruckner near East 149th Street at around 12:30 a.m. Monday when he was hit by the driver of a BMW […]