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Daily News Tries Race-Baiting to Gin Up Controversy Over Safer Streets
It's truly amazing how much work the tabloids put into opposing measures that save lives. Take today's Daily News, which resorted to race-baiting to gin up controversy over hard-won bike lanes in Upper Manhattan.
May 29, 2013
Citi Bike Membership Surges Past 20,000 — Smell the Desperation at the Post
That acrid scent wafting from the News Corp. Building is flop sweat pouring off Col Allan and the New York Post editors as they watch tens of thousands of New Yorkers start using the city's new bike-share system.
May 29, 2013
Shameless: Daily News Tries Linking Death of Senior Cyclist to Bike-Share
A senior riding a bike in Bath Beach was killed by a motorist Monday, and the Daily News used the crash to criticize the city's new bike-share system.
May 28, 2013
On Bike-Share Opening Day, the Post Wears Its Rotten Heart on Its Sleeve
This morning's headline stack was full of attempts by the New York Post to pour cold water on today's bike-share launch. The tabloid is so committed to its cause, it plastered it on its front cover, just below the day's most important celebrity gossip.
May 27, 2013
How the Post Engineers Bike-Share Bashing, Facts Be Damned
It took a few days, but the Post found someone to go along with its bike-scare nonsense, according to the Post.
May 23, 2013
FDNY Commissioner Salvatore Cassano: Bike-Share Racks Are Not In Our Way
We have a message from FDNY that should once and for all take care of fabricated concerns about bike-share docking stations getting in the way of emergency vehicles.
May 21, 2013
New York Post Serving as Stenographers for Bike-Share Litigants [Updated]
Update: Streetsblog had a call in to FDNY about the Post story. After this post went up, we talked with spokesperson Frank Dwyer, who said: "We had no operational or response issues to this call. Period."
May 21, 2013
Motorist Havoc: Two Dead, Five Hurt, Kids in Critical Condition, No Charges
A pedestrian and a cyclist are dead after a series of crashes in Brooklyn and the Bronx in which motorists also injured five other people. Three of the victims were teenagers. One crash left two young boys in critical condition. No charges are known to have been filed by NYPD or DAs Charles Hynes and Robert Johnson.
May 20, 2013
A Smugger Version of This Weekend’s Backstabbing in the Daily News
This weekend you might have come across the anonymous Daily News editorial in which Arthur Browne's opinion team called Paul Steely White "smug" for defending bike-share (in an opinion piece solicited by Arthur Browne's opinion team). But is it smug to point out that New Yorkers who don't own cars also deserve to have a share of the curb? Or that bike-share stations made in 2013 belong in historic neighborhoods as much as 2013 model cars?
May 20, 2013
Citi Bikes Are Not Fixies, and Most People Will Be Happy With That
Daily News reporter Simone Weichselbaum likes her bikes light and fast. The self-proclaimed "proud bike snob who is rarely without her SE Draft steel-frame fixie" said in 2009 that "biking here can be a death sentence," and that bike lanes are "battle zones."
May 13, 2013