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Driver Kills Cyclist in Ditmas Park, NYPD and Media Blame Deceased Victim

By Brad Aaron | Jun 22, 2015 | 28 Comments

Brooklyn: Ocean Ave & Church Ave. U/D; Cyclist struck by a vehicle, pronounced DOA at KCH. @NYPDHighway investigating pic.twitter.com/J2BkLOadEJ — New York City Alerts (@NYCityAlerts) June 22, 2015 A driver killed a cyclist in Ditmas Park this morning. The cyclist, a 57-year-old man, was riding eastbound on Church Avenue near Ocean Avenue when he was […]

Richard Brown: No Charges for Driver Who Killed Boy on Neighborhood Street

By Brad Aaron | Jun 3, 2015 | 4 Comments

An 8-year-old boy hit by a driver on a neighborhood street in Queens on Memorial Day died from his injuries. NYPD and Queens District Attorney Richard Brown filed no charges. Sincere Atkins was playing with his cousin outside his grandmother’s apartment, on Sutphin Boulevard near 125th Avenue, when a 21-year-old man hit him with a Toyota Corolla, […]

The Post’s Highly Selective Outrage About Traffic Violence

By Stephen Miller | May 28, 2015 | 23 Comments

Yesterday, a driver fleeing police killed a cyclist on East 129th Street near Madison Avenue. DNAinfo, the Daily News, CBS 2, and WPIX all covered the crash. So did the Post, but the paper reserved its front page for a different bike story, assigning a reporter and photographer to tail Jason Marshall, the cyclist who struck and killed […]

Ydanis Rodriguez Bill Would Let NYC’s Press Corps Park for Free

By Stephen Miller | Apr 28, 2015 | 23 Comments

In order to protect a #Transparent government we need to ensure media has the tools it needs to do their duty pic.twitter.com/IfuG6HpcLX — Ydanis Rodriguez (@ydanis) April 28, 2015 City Council Transportation Committee Chair Ydanis Rodriguez thinks the city’s press corps needs a special break: He’s proposing legislation that would exempt drivers with press plates […]

Rangel: Let’s Allow Bus Drivers to Kill People With the Right of Way

By Brad Aaron | Apr 22, 2015 | 19 Comments

Congressman Charlie Rangel condemned the Right of Way Law earlier this week, joining the Transport Workers Union to argue that the law should allow MTA bus drivers to kill people who have the right of way. Speaking to bus drivers and TWU officials Monday at the Mother Clara Hale Depot in Harlem, Rangel said it was “stupid” to charge bus […]

The Times Fails to Comprehend the Nature of the MTA Funding Gap

By Ben Fried | Apr 10, 2015 | 11 Comments

New York politicos couldn’t have asked for a better deflection of their own responsibility to keep our transit system running than this piece served up yesterday by Times opinion writer Eleanor Randolph: New Yorkers struggle daily on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s subways, trains and buses. They now collect horror stories about long delays and missed […]

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