Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Media Watch

Daily News on Distracted Cab Drivers: What’s the Big Deal?

By Brad Aaron | Oct 19, 2009 | 7 Comments

In an apparent quest to see which local daily can issue the most ridiculously auto-centric assessment of the problems plaguing the public realm, the "New York" Post has some competition. In August, 8-year-old Axel Pablo was killed by a cab driver in Harlem. Witnesses say the cabbie was on his cell phone. Though police cleared […]

“New York” Post to Pedestrians: Drop Dead

By Ben Fried | Oct 15, 2009 | 11 Comments

Can’t make the light in time? In the eyes of the Post, you’re a scofflaw. In case you missed it, the New York Post officially ceded the right to speak for "real New Yorkers" this morning, when it printed a piece of anti-pedestrian pabulum masquerading as a prescription for street safety. Noting that 178 people […]

Paradox, Schmaradox. Congestion Pricing Works.

By Charles Komanoff | Oct 13, 2009 | 41 Comments

We’re used to seeing bizarre patterns of thinking on the Wall Street Journal’s editorial pages, but an op-ed in Friday’s Journal took it to a new level: “How Traffic Jams Help the Environment.” Photo: The Wall Street Journal Still more bizarrely, the author was New Yorker writer David Owen, promoter of the commonsensical idea that […]

CBS2 Reporter Warns Against Distracted Driving While Driving Distracted

By Brad Aaron | Oct 1, 2009 | 5 Comments

"I am six times more likely to be in a crash right now." The U.S. DOT’s distracted driving summit, now in its second day, is getting some major nationwide media play. As well it should. New York’s own CBS2 reports that distracted driving claimed the lives of 6,000 people last year. But in an otherwise […]

Electeds, Local Media Wage War on Staten Island Cyclists

By Brad Aaron | Aug 25, 2009 | 27 Comments

The recent motorist assault on a Staten Island cyclist is a symptom of anti-bike bias routinely displayed by local politicians and the Staten Island Advance, as chronicled on a web site encouraging action for safe streets. Council Members Vincent Ignizio (l) and James Oddo scientifically prove that bikes can’t fit on Jefferson Avenue in Dongan […]

Even Fox News Digs Summer Streets

By Brad Aaron | Aug 24, 2009 | 7 Comments

How much of a non-event was this year’s Summer Streets in terms of media critique? In this Fox News piece, via Crooks and Liars, the story isn’t traffic tie-ups or wacky spandex-clad elitists or howling business owners, but the fact that more everyday New Yorkers are taking to the streets on two wheels. Summer Streets, […]

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