Media Watch

In Washington for the National Bike Summit, Clarence Eckerson snapped a shot of this ad for the capital's NBC affiliate and its reporter Joe Krebs (described in his bio as "an avid swimmer and cyclist").

Does Anthony Weiner really intend to someday rip out all the bike lanes in New York City? Or was his remark to Mayor Bloomberg "on a balmy night last June" merely a topical quip blown out of proportion in last week's Times profile of Janette Sadik-Khan?

Has the Times ever published a profile so singularly devoted to one city commissioner's relationships with other public figures as this Michael Grynbaum story?

"The city's war on automobiles has just gone aerial," screamed the New York Post in a recent story about speed cameras. A Daily News op-ed in support of safety improvements proclaimed "the battle against cars has saved lives." The Times matter-of-factly declared last month that "New York City has gone out of its way in recent years to cater to the nonmotorized." No matter where you get your news, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the last three and a half years have been a time of revolutionary frenzy on the city's streets.

The New York Post is escalating its coordinated, fantasy-based assault on efforts to make New York a better city for transit, cycling, and walking. Check out the impressive synergies from its opinion pages:

Steve Cuozzo columns about street reclamation are usually so divorced from reality that we've been letting him go unchallenged for a while. The insanity is usually self-evident.

Here's the piece about the Prospect Park West bike lane that ran on the Channel 11 News last night.

Hey, have you seen Marcia Kramer’s latest segment about Prospect Park West? It’s at least her third piece on a single Brooklyn bike lane in the last year. You can tell she’s had some practice -- take a look (sorry about the minivan ad you'll have to sit through first):

Since I've been producing Streetfilms (at last count, 196 of them), rarely do I come across work in our field that I find monumentally enlightening, savvy, or high-caliber. But the latest blog post from David Hembrow's "A View from the Cycle Path..." contains an embedded video produced by Mark Wagenbuur that left me in awe. The video examines the media and public response to a road incident in the Netherlands between a reckless driver and the three cyclists he struck while they were stopped waiting for a traffic light. Please watch it through, it should be seen by everyone.