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Gut Check: New Yorkers Need to Speak Up For Bike Policy
Yesterday the Post came out with another attack on the ongoing evolution of New York into a city where transit works better, streets are safer, and people have better options for getting around. Using a Post-manufactured squabble over the city's Christmas blizzard response as their set-up, the editorialists launched into a screed against Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, and basically called for her head.
January 19, 2011
Driver Cam: The Columbus Ave Bike Lane Thru Tony Aiello’s Windshield
We talk a lot about windshield perspective on Streetsblog, so with his latest salvo against safer cycling and walking, CBS 2's Tony Aiello has done most of the work for us.
January 5, 2011
The Times Finally Opines on Street Safety: ‘Calm Traffic’ By Ticketing Cyclists
Today's Times editorial on cycling enforcement (the kicker: a few more tickets for bicyclists "would certainly calm traffic in New York City") is generating a stir. What I want to know is this: Why did the Times editorial writers choose to pipe up about this particular aspect of street safety? Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I can tell, the Times has not seen fit to print an editorial about traffic enforcement for at least as long as Streetsblog has been publishing.
December 17, 2010
Bike Lane Cranks Get Star Turn in Times Bicycling Feature
The Times devoted a feature story today to NYC's new bike lanes and the people who dislike them. Hard to argue with the timing of the piece. The separated lanes that went in on the East Side, Park Slope, and the Upper West Side this year are highly visible, they shake up the way the street works, and people have opinions about them.
November 22, 2010
Post Reader to Cuozzo: Why Not Acknowledge That Streets Are Getting Safer?
Streetsblog contributor Charles Komanoff wrote this letter to New York Post columnist Steve Cuozzo yesterday morning. At the time we posted it, he had yet to receive a reply.
November 9, 2010
Marcia Kramer Exposes the Threat of Pedestrian Refuges [Updated]
I had to pull this Marcia Kramer segment out of the headline stack and post it, because you've got to see it to believe it.
November 5, 2010
Crain’s Asks: Should Manhattan Give Up on Bike Lanes?
This poll on the Crain's site has been tearing through the Twitterverse rather ferociously this afternoon:
October 13, 2010
S.I. Advance: Capodanno Plagued By Speeding, So Get Rid of the Bike Lane
Earlier this week the Downtown Express injected some common sense into the public discussion about the value of bike lanes. With protected lanes on Ninth and Eighth Avenue now a valued safety improvement after facing some pushback at first, the paper predicted that initial complaints about the new lanes on the East Side will subside once people get used to them:
September 24, 2010
Framing the New Broadway: “Green Ribbon” or “Narrow Passageway”?
Recession or depression? Estate taxes or death taxes? How events or policies are named, or “framed,” has become crucial to their viability. Indeed, the ascendancy of the right wing in the U.S. in recent decades is attributed in part to the Right’s mastery of political phraseology to demonize leftist and even centrist policies.
September 7, 2010
“Bike Bedlam” Fact Check: NYC Bike-Ped Injuries Drop From Low to Lower
Editor's note: Streetsblog has retracted this post. The information on bike-on-ped crashes is not accurate. Read the full correction for an explanation of how we acquired the erroneous data and how we determined it was incorrect.
August 18, 2010