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Google-Funded Pundit: Forget Transit, the Future Belongs to Robocars
Last week Salon ran a pretty horrendous piece on the future of transportation called "Oops -- Wrong Future."
May 16, 2012
Can the Times Name a Transpo Project Planned More Openly Than Bike-share?
In an otherwise fair piece about the debut of the draft NYC bike-share map, the New York Times opted for this sensationalized lede: "After months spent shrouded in secrecy and speculation, the locations of bike-share stations in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens have arrived."
May 11, 2012
CBS 2: Careless Pedestrians Walking Into Cars, Sinkholes, Hungry Bears
Ft. Lee police chief Thomas Ripoli has had it with people getting hit by cars. So he's taken the logical step: ordering a crackdown on pedestrians.
May 10, 2012
Fox 5 Anchors Scotto and Kelly Set New Low for NYC Transpo Reporting
Fox 5's Good Day New York unleashed a torrent of bile for bike, bus, and pedestrian improvements, seasoned with a healthy dose of unprofessionalism, in a pair of segments focused on bike-share this morning.
May 9, 2012
Memo to Daily News: Local NYC Streets Could Also Use State DOT Attention
After two crashes in six years that caused 13 fatalities and an outcry from an indignant press corps suddenly obsessed with traffic safety, the New York State Department of Transportation has turned its attention to the Bronx River Parkway.
May 3, 2012
Dan Fellegara Killed by Cab Driver in Manhattan, No Charges Filed
An outlaw committed suicide on Sixth Avenue early Sunday morning. At least that's how the death of Dan Fellegara was reported by the Post and Daily News.
April 30, 2012
The Jackson Heights Plaza Photo the Times Doesn’t Want You to See
Gotta hand it to the Times for some devious photo editing in today's Metro section. Check out the barren seating and shuttered storefronts in the shot that accompanies Sarah Maslin Nir's two-sides-to-every-story piece on the new Jackson Heights plaza. That plaza must really be a failure, right?
March 19, 2012
CBS 2 Reporter Files Dispatch on Pedestrian Deaths While Driving Distracted
The distracted drivers over at CBS 2 News have outdone themselves. Even when the topic turns to pedestrian fatalities and the script does a decent job of describing the problem, the genius producers who brought you "Mobile 2" make their reporters file from a roving deathtrap with a satellite link.
March 8, 2012
Don’t Let Cuomo Greenwash His Cars-Only Tappan Zee Bridge
Governor Andrew Cuomo may have axed plans ten years in the making to build transit across the Tappan Zee Bridge, but hey, at least he promised to consider turning the old structure into a park, right?
February 24, 2012
When Cops and Placard Holders Set the Tone for Transportation Coverage
Today's Jim Dwyer column in the New York Times is a nice little encapsulation of everything that can go wrong when NYC's press corps turns its attention to matters of transportation.
February 3, 2012