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New York’s Hometown Paper Doesn’t Get How New York City Streets Work

By Ben Fried | Jun 3, 2013 | 25 Comments

I think I’ve figured out why, when it comes to allocating space on New York streets, the Daily News opinion team tends to take a position that’s completely at odds with making the city a better place. The problem is that the Daily News opinion team doesn’t understand how city streets function. In a piece […]

Now That Citi Bike Is Live, Will All Cyclist Injuries Be Newsworthy?

By Brad Aaron | May 31, 2013 | 20 Comments

Now that Citi Bike is live, the media are apparently paying close attention to traffic crashes that injure cyclists. So long as the cyclist is on a Citi Bike. Both the Post and the Associated Press picked up the story of a cyclist who was hurt in a collision at Houston and MacDougal yesterday afternoon. […]

Daily News Tries Race-Baiting to Gin Up Controversy Over Safer Streets

By Brad Aaron | May 29, 2013 | 12 Comments

It’s truly amazing how much work the tabloids put into opposing measures that save lives. Take today’s Daily News, which resorted to race-baiting to gin up controversy over hard-won bike lanes in Upper Manhattan. Residents of Inwood and Washington Heights have been working for safer neighborhood streets for a long while. My first story on […]

Shameless: Daily News Tries Linking Death of Senior Cyclist to Bike-Share

By Brad Aaron | May 28, 2013 | 22 Comments

A senior riding a bike in Bath Beach was killed by a motorist Monday, and the Daily News used the crash to criticize the city’s new bike-share system. Mai Zhang, 74, was struck by the driver of an SUV at Benson Avenue and Bay 26th Street at around noon, according to NYPD and published accounts. […]

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