Comments on: Today’s Headlines http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/04/09/todays-headlines-132/ Covering the New York City Streets Renaissance Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Gizler http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/04/09/todays-headlines-132/comment-page-1/#comment-30609 Gizler Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:50:15 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/04/09/todays-headlines-132/#comment-30609 Oh good. I'm still curious as to how the guy could have been turning right though. Also, sometimes the spam protection addition takes me longer than it should. Oh good. I’m still curious as to how the guy could have been turning right though. Also, sometimes the spam protection addition takes me longer than it should.

]]> By: Will http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/04/09/todays-headlines-132/comment-page-1/#comment-30608 Will Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:56:35 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/04/09/todays-headlines-132/#comment-30608 A search for the article on NY1 shows that the article is from August 10, 2006. <a href="http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?&aid=61728&search_result=1&stid=8" rel="nofollow">http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?&aid=61728&search_result=1&stid=8</a> Thankfully, it appears to be a simple mistake. A search for the article on NY1 shows that the article is from August 10, 2006.

http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?&aid=61728&search_result=1&stid=8

Thankfully, it appears to be a simple mistake.

]]> By: Gizler http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/04/09/todays-headlines-132/comment-page-1/#comment-30607 Gizler Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:55:39 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/04/09/todays-headlines-132/#comment-30607 Wow, same exact thing a few months later. Disgraceful. Once again it will be regarded as no biggie, undoubtably. Wow, same exact thing a few months later. Disgraceful. Once again it will be regarded as no biggie, undoubtably.

]]> By: rachael http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/04/09/todays-headlines-132/comment-page-1/#comment-30606 rachael Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:48:15 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/04/09/todays-headlines-132/#comment-30606 It's the same intersection where Darren Lewis, also 20, was killed last August. Same construction company and same right-turn maneuver. The Metro article from last year is pasted below: Deaths spark law call from cyclists MANHATTAN Darren Lewis, a Harlemite who recently celebrated his 20th birthday, was struck and killed by a truck from the Kamco Building Supply Company yesterday around 10 a.m. when he was riding his bike along 9th Avenue at W. 29th Street, according to police.No summonses were issued and no criminality is suspected, but NYPD officials said the investigation is ongoing. This was the second bicycle-related death in one week. On Saturday, Shamar Porter, 10, was hit and killed by a minivan as he biked home from a Little League game in New Lots. The deaths prompted Times Up!, a cycling advocacy group, to call on the city to improve conditions for cyclists and crack down on drivers who flout traffic laws, such as parking in bike lanes, cutting off cyclists or speeding too closely behind cyclists. METRO/AZ It’s the same intersection where Darren Lewis, also 20, was killed last August. Same construction company and same right-turn maneuver. The Metro article from last year is pasted below:

Deaths spark law call from cyclists

MANHATTAN Darren Lewis, a Harlemite who recently celebrated his 20th
birthday, was struck and killed by a truck from the Kamco Building
Supply Company
yesterday around 10 a.m. when he was riding his bike along 9th Avenue at W. 29th
Street, according to police.No summonses were issued and no
criminality is suspected, but NYPD officials said the investigation is
ongoing. This was the second bicycle-related death in one week. On
Saturday, Shamar Porter, 10, was hit and killed by a minivan as he
biked home from a Little League game in New Lots.
The deaths prompted Times Up!, a cycling advocacy group, to call on the city to
improve conditions for cyclists and crack down on drivers who flout traffic
laws, such as parking in bike lanes, cutting off cyclists or speeding
too closely behind cyclists. METRO/AZ

]]> By: moocow http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/04/09/todays-headlines-132/comment-page-1/#comment-30602 moocow Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:15:33 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/04/09/todays-headlines-132/#comment-30602 Is that an old story about the Bicyclist killed? Or is it nearly the same story as the other young rider killed on 9th last fall? It reads very familiar to me. Is that an old story about the Bicyclist killed? Or is it nearly the same story as the other young rider killed on 9th last fall? It reads very familiar to me.

]]> By: Gizler http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/04/09/todays-headlines-132/comment-page-1/#comment-30601 Gizler Mon, 09 Apr 2007 13:52:29 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/04/09/todays-headlines-132/#comment-30601 Re: cyclist killed - the article says "Police say the 20-year-old was killed when a truck made a right turn onto Ninth Avenue from 29th Street. The victim was riding a bike south on Ninth Avenue." I can't understand how you could make a right turn from 29th - it's a westbound street, and Ninth is a southbound ave. Re: cyclist killed – the article says “Police say the 20-year-old was killed when a truck made a right turn onto Ninth Avenue from 29th Street. The victim was riding a bike south on Ninth Avenue.” I can’t understand how you could make a right turn from 29th – it’s a westbound street, and Ninth is a southbound ave.

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