Comments on: Today’s Headlines http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/08/07/todays-headlines-707/ 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: Mark Walker http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/08/07/todays-headlines-707/comment-page-1/#comment-97181 Mark Walker Sat, 08 Aug 2009 20:01:39 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=24581#comment-97181 <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/08/world/europe/08germany.html?hpw" rel="nofollow">NYT</a>: "When the German government developed its pioneering cash-for-clunkers program, it neglected one small detail: making sure the clunkers no longer clunked...." NYT: “When the German government developed its pioneering cash-for-clunkers program, it neglected one small detail: making sure the clunkers no longer clunked….”

]]> By: gecko http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/08/07/todays-headlines-707/comment-page-1/#comment-97061 gecko Sat, 08 Aug 2009 10:30:41 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=24581#comment-97061 re: NYC's Subways Were Almost Built as Moving Walkways!? (New Scientist) http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327200.200-how-the-moving-walkway-nearly-overtook-the-metro.html?full=true just gave a quick look at the article but this apparent revelation is seriously cool. re: NYC’s Subways Were Almost Built as Moving Walkways!? (New Scientist)

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327200.200-how-the-moving-walkway-nearly-overtook-the-metro.html?full=true

just gave a quick look at the article but this apparent revelation is seriously cool.

]]> By: chuck http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/08/07/todays-headlines-707/comment-page-1/#comment-96811 chuck Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:55:17 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=24581#comment-96811 I agree that more attention needs to be paid to other road deaths; I just don't see the need to deride the coverage given to a very unusual and very tragic incident. I agree that more attention needs to be paid to other road deaths; I just don’t see the need to deride the coverage given to a very unusual and very tragic incident.

]]> By: Ian Turner http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/08/07/todays-headlines-707/comment-page-1/#comment-96601 Ian Turner Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:51:43 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=24581#comment-96601 Why are taxi medallions not auctioned again? Why are taxi medallions not auctioned again?

]]> By: Aaron Naparstek http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/08/07/todays-headlines-707/comment-page-1/#comment-96591 Aaron Naparstek Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:35:40 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=24581#comment-96591 Chuck, Check out the forthcoming Weekly Carnage that Brad is working on and you'll get a sense of why, I guess, I'm a little cynical about the spectacularization of this one particular case. For instance, I didn't see any follow-up in any media on this week's two hit-and-run pedestrian fatalities. This Taconic case and its "evil mom" will go away, people will still be getting run over and killed on NYC streets every other day, and we'll be right back to a total lack of serious coverage of the issue in our local press. Ho hum, I guess. Chuck,

Check out the forthcoming Weekly Carnage that Brad is working on and you’ll get a sense of why, I guess, I’m a little cynical about the spectacularization of this one particular case. For instance, I didn’t see any follow-up in any media on this week’s two hit-and-run pedestrian fatalities. This Taconic case and its “evil mom” will go away, people will still be getting run over and killed on NYC streets every other day, and we’ll be right back to a total lack of serious coverage of the issue in our local press. Ho hum, I guess.

]]> By: chuck http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/08/07/todays-headlines-707/comment-page-1/#comment-96541 chuck Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:57:52 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=24581#comment-96541 "Obsesses" is a bit of a callous choice of words, don't you think? It's a tragedy and a mystery and every day there are more questions. What's the objection to the coverage? “Obsesses” is a bit of a callous choice of words, don’t you think? It’s a tragedy and a mystery and every day there are more questions.

What’s the objection to the coverage?

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