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Here’s a TV Story With a Two-Wheeled Perspective on Biking in NYC

By Brad Aaron | May 27, 2016 | 9 Comments

This story from the New Jersey-based TV show “Chasing News” is meant to have a light touch, but it does a better job explaining how streets work than most “straight” news reportage. Correspondent Tamara Laine talks with safe streets advocates Ollie Oliver and Janet Liff about the need for protected bikeways on Fifth and Sixth […]

Driver Kills Toddler in the Bronx as NYPD and the Press Declare “Accident”

By Brad Aaron | May 16, 2016 | 78 Comments

Update: WPIX identified the victim as Mariam Dansoko. WPIX and other outlets are reporting that the driver, a 21-year-old man, was turning left from Gerard Avenue onto E. 164th Street when he hit her. A driver killed a 3-year-old girl in the Bronx this morning. NYPD filed no charges and almost immediately told the press […]

Check Out This Wonderfully Normal CBS 2 Queens Blvd Bike Lane Story

By Brad Aaron | May 13, 2016 | 7 Comments

There’s nothing particularly noteworthy about this CBS 2 feature on the plan to extend the bike lanes on Queens Boulevard. And that’s what makes it noteworthy. With shots of the street where lanes now exist, reporter Sonia Rincon begins the piece like so: “The DOT is reshaping the landscape of one of the most dangerous roads in the […]

Associated Press Cautions Journalists That Crashes Aren’t Always “Accidents”

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 4, 2016 | No Comments

When negligence is claimed or proven, avoid accident, which can be read as exonerating the person responsible. #ACES2016 — APStylebook (@APStylebook) April 2, 2016 The Associated Press has tweaked its guidance for journalists about when to call traffic collisions “accidents.” Street safety advocates, spearheaded by New York City’s Transportation Alternatives, have been pushing police and media organizations to drop the […]

Inside the Latest “Distracted Pedestrians” Con

By Charles Komanoff | Mar 31, 2016 | 40 Comments

Hospital records from 2014 showed that distracted walking accounted for 78% of pedestrian injuries throughout the United States. — Daily News, Sunday, March 27, 2016 A report released in 2015 by the Governors Highway Safety Association found an increase in pedestrian fatalities, and cited texting while walking as partly to blame. Nearly two million pedestrian injuries […]

Broadway Ticket Sales Are Through the Roof. Damned Plazas!

By Brad Aaron | Feb 29, 2016 | 21 Comments

In case you missed it, the Broadway theater business is booming. According to the Broadway League, the 2014-2015 season saw the highest attendance in at least 30 years. In 2009-2010, gross ticket sales topped the billion-dollar mark for the first time in history, and have only gone up since. Something else happened in 2009. It’s when New York City […]

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