Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Media Watch

Memo to New York Post: Dooring Is Illegal, Not a “Freak Accident” [Updated]

By Brad Aaron | Jun 18, 2012 | 33 Comments

Update: The victim has been identified by NY1 as Tskaka Cooke, 39. The Times-Ledger also filed a report on the crash. The New York Post story on the crash that killed a cyclist in Fresh Meadows this weekend is a textbook example of press corps victim-blaming. Here are the facts of the crash, as related […]

My MSNBC Biking Story: Chris Hayes

By Ben Fried | Jun 14, 2012 | 34 Comments

Here’s an intriguing promo from the cable news network that’s ahead of the pack when it comes to livable streets. MSNBC host Chris Hayes is pitching his show with a foreshortened look at his Brooklyn-to-Rock Center bike commute. You’ll have to forgive the sidewalk riding that bookends the trip. Brooklyn Bridge Park, the Brooklyn Bridge […]

Times’ Ped Plaza-Bashing Queens Reporter Enjoys Using Queens Ped Plaza

By Brad Aaron | Jun 8, 2012 | 16 Comments

What is it with the New York Times and the Jackson Heights pedestrian plaza? Yesterday, the paper published a piece by Sarah Maslin Nir on a mugger in the plaza who was tackled to the ground by witnesses. It’s a good story — two of the good Samaritans were missionaries up from North Carolina, another […]

NY1 Poll: 68% Correctly Believe Drivers Cause Most NYC Traffic Crashes

By Brad Aaron | May 17, 2012 | 6 Comments

NY1 today announced the results of a traffic safety poll, conducted by Marist, which asked New Yorkers whom they blame for most city traffic crashes. The results, as reported by the affable Roger Clark and Pat Kiernan: 68 percent of those polled city-wide believe motorists are responsible for the majority of crashes, 19 percent think […]

Google-Funded Pundit: Forget Transit, the Future Belongs to Robocars

By Angie Schmitt | May 16, 2012 | No Comments

Last week Salon ran a pretty horrendous piece on the future of transportation called “Oops — Wrong Future.” Writer Michael Lind argued that the “case for infrastructure investment has suffered from the lack of a plausible vision of the next American infrastructure.” Things that are not “plausible,” according to Lind, include “renewable energy and mass […]

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