Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Media Watch

Would You and Your Kids Bike on PPW Without Physical Separation?

By Ben Fried | Apr 11, 2011 | 20 Comments

Clarence posted these clips from yesterday’s family ride on Prospect Park West, asking us to imagine the street as bike lane opponents would have it — with only a striped, un-protected lane to separate cyclists from traffic. I can’t really picture families biking on such a street. Can you? Speaking of yesterday’s ride, the absence […]

How Ad Dollars Help Explain the Media’s Bike Backlash

By Catherine Lutz and Anne Lutz Fernandez | Apr 4, 2011 | No Comments

The media loves drama, of course. As your high school English teacher explained it, if Hamlet doesn’t get pissed about his dad’s murder or if Atticus Finch doesn’t step up to defend a black man falsely accused — that is, if somebody doesn’t say no, you’ve got no story. So the vociferous opposition of a […]

Bike Lanes Still Controversial to Michael Grynbaum, Opinion Poll Be Damned

By Ben Fried | Mar 30, 2011 | 12 Comments

If a bike lane gets striped and no one is there to report on it, would it still be “controversial”? Less than two weeks after a Quinnipiac poll revealed that 54 percent of NYC voters support the expansion of the bike network, New York Times transportation reporter Michael Grynbaum led off a story in today’s […]

Brits Get the Clearest View of Park Slope Bike Lane Fight

By Brad Aaron | Mar 9, 2011 | 12 Comments

If you just landed in the city or you’ve been off the grid for the past eight months, you might be wondering what the heck is going on on Prospect Park West. To catch yourself up, dive into this exquisite piece from the Guardian’s Matt Seaton. Seaton’s blow-by-blow masterfully sets the scene: the controversial, effective […]

Eyes on the Street: Media Envy in DC

By Brad Aaron | Mar 9, 2011 | 4 Comments

In Washington for the National Bike Summit, Clarence Eckerson snapped a shot of this ad for the capital’s NBC affiliate and its reporter Joe Krebs (described in his bio as “an avid swimmer and cyclist”). In January, Dave Alpert at Greater Greater Washington noted the astounding difference between livable streets coverage in his city, where […]

Tell Electeds and the Media: I’m a New Yorker, and I Want Safer Streets

By Brad Aaron | Mar 7, 2011 | 10 Comments

Does Anthony Weiner really intend to someday rip out all the bike lanes in New York City? Or was his remark to Mayor Bloomberg “on a balmy night last June” merely a topical quip blown out of proportion in last week’s Times profile of Janette Sadik-Khan? We’ve queried Weiner’s office to find out, but the […]

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