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The Times Theory of Democracy: “More Power to the Design Commission!”

By Brad Aaron | Jun 27, 2011 | 23 Comments

If you’re looking for further evidence to support Jason Gay’s “the bikes have won” theory — that the anti-bike bile-fest of last winter was so much sound and fury signifying nothing more than the windshield perspectives of the city’s intransigent political and media elites — we present the latest, and perhaps lamest, salvo from the […]

What We Don’t Know About the Crash That Killed Aileen Chen

By Charles Komanoff | Jun 9, 2011 | 127 Comments

Here are a dozen questions pertaining to the crash that took the life of 16-year-old Stuyvesant H.S. student Aileen Chen as she rode her bicycle last Saturday a block from her home in Borough Park at around 6 p.m. How fast was the BMW traveling when Aileen and her bicycle first came into view? How […]

Kramer and Hikind Exaggerate Victory in War on Pedestrians

By Ben Fried | Jun 1, 2011 | 14 Comments

Last night Marcia Kramer served up more of her unique brand of public service journalism, triumphantly reporting that the city will remove pedestrian safety measures designed to prevent seniors from getting killed and maimed in Borough Park traffic. Touring Fort Hamilton Parkway with Dov Hikind, the State Assembly rep who threatened last month to sue […]

New York Post Bike Bile: Deliberate Lies or Pure Ineptitude?

By Brad Aaron | May 26, 2011 | 12 Comments

It’s getting to the point — probably well past the point, actually — where the non-stop cyclist hate spewing from the New York Post has attained a level of self-parody. So free of fact and full of bald-faced vitriol is the paper’s latest editorial, praising Ray Kelly’s NYPD for a marked increase in cyclist summonses, […]

Five Media Myths That Perpetuate Car Culture

By Catherine Lutz and Anne Lutz Fernandez | May 23, 2011 | No Comments

Another day, another news story, another media outlet wielding an old saw like this one: High gas prices are a political problem for the president because Americans “love their cars.” American car culture, fed by everything from our sprawled-out landscape to a daily bombardment of car ads, is also kept alive by journalists’ use of […]

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