As one gentleman said to me while admiring the new greenery and traffic islands in Grand Army Plaza, "Wow, sometimes government does work!" It's easy to quickly forget how things were, but we here at Streetfilms aim to not let that happen. Check out these extraordinary before/afters; especially the new separated bike lane which safely shepherds riders from Prospect Park.
Archive for the ‘Traffic Calming’ Category
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Street Transformations: Grand Army Plaza
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Animation: Diverter
Learn the benefits of diverters in this traffic calming stop-animation.
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Chicanes In My Neighborhood
Sometimes double-parked cars and street regulations form their own temporary traffic calmed conditions.
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Raised Crosswalk
Raised crosswalks explained with the help of stop-animation and the classic 80s video game, "Frogger"
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Barnes Dance!
The Barnes Dance is an all-cross pedestrian signal!
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Chicane - Animated Traffic Calming
Do you know what a chicane is? In 24 simple seconds you can find out.
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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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Clarence: The Purple Traffic Calming Wizard
The Purple Traffic Calming Wizard chats with the hoi polloi to find out what peeps think about the physically separated bike path on 9th Ave.
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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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NYC Metamorphosis!
Copious amounts of positivity coming from the NYC DOT. Check out these before and afters.
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Street Lessons from a Blizzard
Back in Feb 2006, as the largest ever recorded NYC snowfall (26.9") was winding down, I ran outside with a camera to try to capture some traffic calming, transportation and livable streets lessons.
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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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Clarence: The Traffic Calming Sasquatch
Thanks to the great traffic calming and livability a city like Portland, Oregon has to offer, even a bigfoot has felt safe enough around cars to come out of his decades of hiding and ride his bike.
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Photos: Village Building Convergence - Intersection Repair
Just returned from City Repair's 7th Annual Village Building Convergence in Portland, Oregon where hundreds of neighbors, students, and volunteers are taking back their streets to make them more livable, and community-oriented. Of the dozens of seminars, celebrations and building projects going on, StreetFilms loves the Intersection Repair.
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Clarence: The Traffic Calming Maniac
Sometimes the alternative transportation world doesn't have to be all serious and analytical as this impromptu, "transportation comedy" short shows.
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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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Berkeley Bike Boulevards
In Berkeley, Calif. a citywide network of traffic calmed streets called Bicycle Boulevards allows bicyclists to navigate safely. They are marked by wonderful purple signage and street stencils larger than a car!
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Portland, Ore. - Traffic Calming: Diagonal Diverter
The use of traffic calming in Portland emphasizes keeping thru traffic out of neighborhoods.
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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. - Bicycle Boulevards
Who needs bike lanes on wonderful streets like these when you keep traffic to a minimum?
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San Francisco: Removal of the Embarcadero Freeway
In 1989, a 7.1 earthquake struck the Bay Area which severely damaged many of its elevated highway structures. The Embarcadero Freeway - an ugly, double-decked highway - was replaced with a grand boulevard which emphasizes access to the waterfront and provides people with transportation options like walking, mass transit, and bicycling instead of an emphasis [...]
