Author Archives: Aaron Naparstek
“If it works, I’ll be the first to say I was wrong.”
So, we now have the first batch of solid data showing that the Prospect Park West redesign has drastically reduced motor vehicle speeding and injury-causing crashes. It has tripled the number of cyclists who use PPW on weekends and doubled cycling on weekdays. It has almost completely eliminated bicycling on the sidewalk. And it has [...]
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If you thought Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz was a sane person…
Think again: Also: How could it be that Marcia Kramer, CBS2′s Chief Investigative / Political Correspondent, allows Markowitz to level these charges of fraudulent data against the City and against bike advocates, yet, she never bothered to pick up the phone to call the bike advocates to respond? Is that considered good journalism these days? [...]
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Responding to the New York Post’s Crappy Bike Coverage
I wrote a letter to New York Post reporter Sally Goldenberg this morning in response to her awful coverage of last night’s Community Board 6 meeting on the Prospect Park West bike lane. (You can find reasonable coverage of the same issue at the Daily News, Brooklyn Paper, Brooklyn Spoke, How We Drive and Streetsblog). [...]
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Zombies for Better Bike Lanes
More action from Thursday morning’s Prospect Park West bike lane love/hate fest… Future generations of New Yorkers will find it amazing, hilarious and somewhat incomprehensible that people got so worked up over the accommodation of bicycles in New York City at the start of the 21st century. Our kids will view these anti-bike lane protesters [...]
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The ne plus URLtra in web vanity: NPRS.TK
A few months back I noticed that whenever I used bit.ly to shorten the web address of a New York Times story prior to sending it out via Twitter, the reduced link appeared as nyti.ms. Then The Huffington Post’s links began appearing as huff.to, and NPR links were shriveling down to the impressively miniscule n.pr. [...]
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Why is half of the Prospect Park West bike still covered in ice and snow?