More than 275 people from 20 states and three countries came to the second annual Youth Bike Summit over the weekend of January 13. Organized by pioneering NYC community bike shop Recycle-A-Bicycle, the three day conference was a chance for young bike advocates to share strategies and draw inspiration from the keynote speakers, Congresswoman Nydia [...]
Danielle Baskin from Belle Helmets painted these beautiful and whimsical custom helmets for the Streetfilms crew!
Streetfilms: As you have traveled the country for Alta and been a part of so much positive change for bicycling, have you seen Streetfilms' influence? Mia Birk: In the past year, I've visited more than 60 cities in 15 states and 3 Canadian Provinces, giving speeches and conducting trainings. At practically every one of [...]
Streetfilms: The 78th Playstreet in Jackson Heights has been an enormous success the last few years. How have the Playstreet Streetfilms helped? Donovan Finn: I don’t think you can easily quantify how much mileage we’ve gotten out of those two videos. Locally, we’ve promoted them on our website and community listervs and bulletin boards to [...]
Yesterday was International Walk to School Day, and on Tuesday, a group of NYC students and supporters got a head start on the celebration. Nearly 4,000 schools across the United States participated in Walk to School Day according to the National Center for Safe Routes to School, who helps organize the event. This year, the [...]
A few weeks ago, Portland, Oregon's City Council voted 4-1 to fund the development of a public bike share system in the Rose City. Right before the vote, Dan Bower made a presentation about the proposed project to the City Council, during which he screened our recent video, Nice Ride MN: Minnesota's Bike Share Expands. We [...]
We've just teamed up with the amazing movers and shakers at ioby to help realize the potential of NYC streets as places for people and not cars. Ioby connects local resources with local environmental projects, so that donors can directly benefit from the initiatives they support. Is that a great idea, or what? We think [...]
Choreographer and filmmaker Gabri Christa commutes to work on her trusty Dutch bike from her home in Staten Island to her office in Rockefeller Center, and to rehearsals and performances all over the city. On her morning commute, she catches the free Staten Island Ferry, meets up with friends, and then hops on the Hudson [...]
Brooklyn resident Kimberly White is just finishing her freshman year of college, and she took some time away from studying for exams and writing papers to be the second cyclist in our MY NYC Biking Story series. Kimberly not only loves riding her red folding bike in Prospect Park, but she's also got the skills [...]
What’s the most effective way to make city streets safer? As Chicago Alderman Mary Ann Smith told Streetfilms, “Signs don’t do the job, even having police officers on the corner does not do the job.” To prevent traffic injuries and deaths, you need to change how the street functions and make it feel slower for [...]
TransportationCamp West, which took place in San Francisco on March 19 and 20, was the second in a series of unconferences focusing on the transportation and technology spaces. Much like TransportationCamp East, the west coast version brought together an assortment of technologists, advocates and public officials from across the Bay Area. Check out some of [...]
Streetfilms, in collaboration with Streets Education, is first-day-of-school excited to announce the release of Moving Beyond the Automobile’s companion curriculum. Geared toward high school and college students, but easily adaptable for other audiences, the curriculum uses concepts from our Moving Beyond the Automobile (MBA) series, like transit oriented development, bus rapid transit and bicycling to [...]
TransportationCamp East was a unconference that took place on March 5-6 at New York Law School, with additional events taking place all over the city. Over 300 people from the public and private sectors came together to share ideas, develop strategies, and make connections about the transportation and technology spaces. Check out some of the [...]
In the third episode of Moving Beyond the Automobile, we take a look at a more efficient way to use a car. Car sharing allows users to evaluate the full cost of each car trip, which encourages them to decide what the most appropriate mode choice is for a specific trip. Zipcar, a leading global [...]
Pasqualina and organizer Helen Ho send the following report from the proceedings: More than 200 participants from 14 states and two countries came to New York this past weekend to swap ideas, learn bicycle advocacy best practices and build nationwide momentum in the country’s first-ever Youth Bike Summit, sponsored by Recycle-A-Bicycle. The youth spent three [...]
Thanks to the great work of Transcript Divas and our summer intern Dahlia Ramsay, all Streetfilms now have easily accessible transcripts. Just click the transcript icon below each individual post (click READ THE WHOLE POST) to view a video's transcript. We’re pretty excited about this new feature and hope you are too. Please let us [...]
New York City has some of the slowest bus service in the country. The 9th annual Pokey and Shleppie Awards, given by NYPIRG's Straphanger Campaign and Transportation Alternatives, shine a spotlight on this unfortunate fact by recognizing the slowest and most unreliable buses in the Big Apple. Tune in above to see which routes earn [...]
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Up until this summer, speeding was the norm on Brooklyn's Prospect Park West. With three wide lanes inviting motorists to hit the accelerator, it was a street monopolized by car traffic. That changed in a big way in June, when NYC DOT converted one vehicle lane to a two-way bikeway separated from traffic by the [...]
Streetfilms has been working for the past few months to make videos even easier to access and at a higher quality. We've done this by migrating Streetfilms' entire video library to Vimeo, the user generated video sharing website. Streetfilms.org will still work and look the same, but by hosting vidoes on Vimeo, we'll [...]
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