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- Arrest made in attempted rape
- FAA says RKO Keith's needs a scalping
- Repurposing stalled sites
- He's a paragon of fiscal responsibility!
- Forest Hills trench repaired
- Mayor Moneybags and his "missing" money
- Rapist scared off in Whitestone
- Dunkin Donuts opening becomes a major concern
- What's troubling Rockaway
- Here are the city's funding priorities
- It'll cost ya more to park in LIC
- Bloomberg immune from prosecution
- Treacherous trench in Forest Hills
- Battle for control of Queens GOP
- Rush hour observations
- Ridgewood gym closed due to Irene?
- Cops won't take his report
- Prescription drug abuse out of control
- City paid dead people's rent
- We've heard this before
- Just a bit of an overreaction?
- Cell phone thief busted
- Hotel plan for College Point
- Too many trees dying in NYC parks
- Bloomie likes the leopard-skin look
- Weeds finally whacked in Howard Beach
- College Point becoming spa central
- Crowley campaigned on taxpayer time
- Little Bay Park needs help
- Preservationists want to save JFK's Sundrome
- City wants grandmother to live with mold until 2019
- Return of the squeegee men
- Why are we paying for this?
- Parents lying to Dept of Ed to enroll kids in schools
- Pols still pushing Rockaway wind farm
- A nice place to represent, but they wouldn't want ...
- Disano hit with violations for scaffold collapse
- Backyard becomes a dumping ground
- $5-10M missing from Bayside Cemetery fund
- Something stinks at Union Turnpike
- Bicyclists need babysitters
- Kids have hard time navigating dangerous streets
- Robert Moses gaveth and taketh away
- Gangs selling fake IDs to illegals
- Too many PODS people out there
- Padlock needed for Douglaston property
- Harlem scaffold collapses onto bus
- Worker's lift clipped by bus in Jamaica
- Forest Hills arboricide!
- Irene took down 2 historic trees
- Crossing Columbus in Astoria
- Hillside Avenue market protest
- Anemic response to Willets Point RFP?
- Monday morning caption opportunity
- DEP asked to pump water in southeastern Queens
- Crime way, way up
- Riot threat was not smart
- City fines homeowner, installs uneven sidewalk
- Is Meeks next to go?
- Parks needs more sensitive contractors
- DOE forcing kid to wear uniform
- Jackson Heights says early goodbye to play street
- Still no clues about Hillside Avenue arboricide
- Ticketed without fair warning
- Maybe this wasn't such a good idea after all
- Avella eyes open space in Whitestone & landmarking...
- Hefty lefty happier with Happy Meals
- Whitestone West Nile source?
- To whom should the finger of blame point?
- Will participatory budgeting be fair?
- Gridlock gold
- Illegal truck parking in Ozone Park
- 'Roid rage?
- Middle Village street is sinking
- Turner sworn into Congress
- Are Bronx and Queens strays out of luck?
- Kids think turnstile jumping is ok
- Liu and Bloomberg bury the hatchet
- Residential lot becomes illegal storage yard
- Council wants more input on Bike Share program
- Restaurant claims South Asians don't tip
- Broken water mains not city's responsibility
- DOT gives complainants the runaround
- Turner wins, Weprin not conceding
- Bloomberg not immune to questions in court
- Woodhaven church objects to liquor sales
- Weiner has left the building
- Visiting historic LaGuardia Airport
- Inside the mind of our Queens CAU Director
- DOT safety project makes matters worse
- Medisys CEO convicted of bribery
- Korea Village in foreclosure sale
- NYPD turns blind eye to suspicious truck
- Seeking Forest Park rape suspect
- City fixes street and causes flooding
- Gay marriage not acceptable to many immigrants
- You wanted a third term. Enjoy!
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- Immigrants demand their own voting districts
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12 comments:
Either the DOT is staffed with complete retards, or this is some ingeniously evil stunt designed by them to have a huge laugh at the expense of motorists and pedestrians on Frannie Lew.
Flipped over cars because they were most likely speeding. Perhaps that is part of the problem. The real problem is people don't drive safely and pay attention. I guess if that were a person or child there it would be fine if the cars plowed through them.
This video perfectly illustrates the sorry state of journalism today. Mocker dons the mantle of a populist (of course, siding with incompetent and dangerous motorists rather than pedestrians), without even bothering to look into the facts of the matter. Did he look at the pedestrian injury rate beforehand? Did he look into the program at the DOT, its motivations and the research behind these traffic calming devices (they're not traffic "control" devices; those are things like red lights). Did he bother to look into the crash reports of these cars? He might discover that these crashes (not accidents) were the result of idiotic drivers who don't know how to operate their vehicles safely.
But all these things would add up to real journalism, and the not sensationalism that Mocker is aiming for. It's a shame that this gets re-posted on Queens Crap.
Hey how about the other "safe streets to school" project in Maspeth that also made conditions less safe because there's no truck enforcement?
How would Mocker have determined if the crashes were accidents or done because of driver incompetence? He's an accident investigator now?
A car flipping over is a danger to pedestrians, dingbat.
"How would Mocker have determined if the crashes were accidents or done because of driver incompetence? He's an accident investigator now?"
Because there are things called "accident reports" which include the causes of crashes. Hard to get from the NYPD (for real reason other than the NYPD doesn't like releasing information), but he could at least have inquired. Seriously, he's failing Journalism 101.
Well wouldn't the DOT cite them when they were called for comment?
Crapper:
City DOT gets crash data from NYPD and State DOT (which also is sourced from NYPD via DMV), so they may not have them right away either. But as I said, NYPD is very poor at sharing information that should be public. But did Mocker look into any of this? Who knows? But probably not.
What do you mean they may not have them right away? What reason did they do this safety project if there were no stats to back up what they did? You wrote: "Did he look at the pedestrian injury rate beforehand? Did he look into the program at the DOT, its motivations and the research behind these traffic calming devices."
You're saying DOT doesn't have this data?
"What do you mean they may not have them right away?" sorry, I meant the latest statistics, after the implementation of the traffic calming devices, not before.
"How would Mocker have determined if the crashes were accidents or done because of driver incompetence? He's an accident investigator now?"
If you crash into a stationary object, that is not an accident, it is driver incompetence/carelessness.
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