Hike the Heights is a yearly guided urban hiking safari for kids thru Morningside Heights, following along paths defined by the presence of statues of giraffes. The object is to encourage fitness as well as promoting fun and education. The event, sponsored by CLIMB (City Life is Moving Bodies), connects numerous parks in the Harlem area. <
Archive for the ‘Pedestrian Safety’ Category
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Hike the Heights!
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Melbourne: A Pedestrian Paradise
In the last 15 years, the city of Melbourne has altered its landscape with more car-free spaces, wider sidewalks, greener streets, eclectic cafes, public art and a bustling pedestrian haven where people relate more to their environment
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Barnes Dance!
The Barnes Dance is an all-cross pedestrian signal!
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Crosswalks #1
The streets of NYC can be very dangerous for pedestrians. And we think this footage is on the mild side.
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2007 NYC Street Memorial Ride & Walk
In 2007, 23 bicyclists and over 100 pedestrians died on NYC streets. The Street Memorial Project honors them.
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The Street Memorial Project (NYC)
A memorial is placed at sites to remind passerby where pedestrians were killed by cars.
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A Walk around the Upper West Side
Mark Gorton and neighbor Lisa Sladkus point out traffic calming features they'd like see on the UWS.
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UWS Streets Renaissance: Amsterdam Avenue
Mark Gorton and neighbor Lisa Sladkus point out Amsterdam Avenue's speed geometry.
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Minding the GAP (Grand Army Plaza)
DOT press conference for GAPCO ped/bike improvements.
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Portland: Celebrating America’s Most Livable City
StreetFilms' 30 minute film on Portland, OR showing just a few of the ways it is one of the most livable cities in the U.S.
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Life Near the QBB
Sarah Gallagher from the Upper Green Side introduces Streetfilms to some of the dangers of living near the Queensboro bridge. Talking to store owners, and others in the area, we learn there is another high cost of doing business in the area other than rent.
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Photos from a Platinum Bike City: Davis, CA
That's a bus shelter ad from Davis, CA - which according to the League of American Bicyclists is the only Platinum Bicycle city in the U.S. I was there this weekend and in a whirlwind visit and tried to document as much of the city and bike amenities as possible in [...]
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Pedestrian: Obey! What’s up with this?
Bicycling home from the Village, came across this sign at corner of Washington & Barrow Streets asking peds to obey all pedestrian traffic laws.
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Intersection Repair
In Portland, Oregon, City Repair promotes intersection interventions where hundreds of people take back their streets by painting street murals and creating community-friendly commons to gather and socialize.
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I.S. 89 Speed Gunning
StreetFilms was out at I.S. 89 in Manhattan last week working with Brooke DuBose and Graham Beck of Transportation Alternatives. The middle school students, with the help of Manhattan Youth's Bob Townley, organized an after-school speed gunning event in response to two recent accidents involving motorists and students crossing the West Side Highway on their [...]
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PSA: What Can Brown Do For You?
The StreetFilms crew was on Fulton Street in Lower Manhattan a while back and discovered this delivery truck eating up an already meager sidewalk. Pedestrians, many of whom were forced out into the street, seemed to regard the obstruction as a common occurrence. Just one example of the thousands of intrusions per day [...]
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Little Legs for Green Streets
Students at P.S. 321 in Park Slope participated in an Earth Day walkathon to raise money for three non-profit green groups, including Transportation Alternatives.
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Another 3rd Avenue Fatality
In this clip, Aaron Naparstek of Streetsblog, standing at the intersection of Third Avenue and Baltic Street in Brooklyn where four year old James Nyprie Rice was killed in a crosswalk while walking with his aunt talks candidly about long delayed safety improvements for the area.
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Reclaiming Grand Army Plaza
The Project for Public Spaces recently led a Brooklyn Placemaking workshop in which fifty members of the community met to brainstorm ideas of how to make Grand Army Plaza safer, more accessible, greener, and people-oriented.
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NYCSR in Chicago
The Project for Public Spaces visited Chicago to meet with many of the key leaders in the Livable Streets movement.
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Park Slope: One Way Is The Wrong Way
Most advocates believe that two-way streets function better for pedestrians, cyclists, commerce, and livable streets. In Park Slope, Brooklyn the NYC DOT is headed the wrong direction.
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The Battle in Park Slope
What's going on in Park Slope, Brooklyn is a microcosm of the war that is being waged all over NYC: communities with smart ideas, good intentions and the capacity for volunteerism are being completely ignored by the Department of Transportation in the planning process.
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Manhattan on the Move
An overview of Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer's historic October 2006 Transportation Conference.
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Interview with Enrique Peñalosa
Former Bogotá mayor Enrique Peñalosa discusses his amazing success transforming Bogotá into a livable city for cyclists and pedestrians.
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Portland, Ore. - Festival Streets
Innovative thinking in Portland has produced a new street design which emphasizes community use.
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Portland, Ore. - Crosswalk Enforcement Actions
In Portland, OR, you can get a $242 ticket for failing to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk.
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Public Space Transformations
These photo simulations from the Project for Public Spaces show how we can transform some of our misused intersections into amazing spaces full of life, commerce, and vitality.
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PSA-We’re Walking
While walking around Manhattan, pedestrians might wonder where all the cars come from. After seeing these statistics, it seems obvious.
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PSA-Cab in a Crosswalk
See how much disruption and danger one taxi cab stuck in a Times Square crosswalk can create.
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PSA-Pedestrian Obstacle Course
A visual example of the hoops through which a pedestrian must jump to cross a street in Times Square.
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Greenwich Street
A popular crosswalk (at Greenwich and Duane Streets) used by children, the elderly and families walking to Washington Market Park is constantly ignored by motorists. The dangerous situation has been the target of reforms by local schools and community organizations, including The Washington Market Park Board. The Park Board has formed the "Tribeca Kids Safety [...]
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PSA-Pedestrian Density
Cars get more space than pedestrians do on the streets, which leads to overcrowded sidewalks.
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Nicole’s Journey
Bronx resident, Nicole Duncan, films the daily, perilous, pedestrian conditions while walking her children to school.
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Atlantic Avenue
Residents, business-people and community leaders speak out against the speeding and congestions problems on Brooklyn's Atlantic Avenue that have resulted in a number of recent accident-related fatalities.
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Jan Gehl in Times Square
Jan Gehl (Gehl Architects) and Mark Gorton discuss the potential for pedestrian-friendly changes in Times Square.
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Psychic Space
Mark Gorton, founder of The Open Planning Project, points out how parked cars and street use makes a difference in two streets just blocks apart in SoHo are felt by pedestrians.
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Grand Army Plaza Traffic Survey
Residents and neighborhood leaders of GAPCO evaluate how traffic conditions could be improved for pedestrians.
