Mayors Just Love Streetfilms!

Today brings a double-barreled whammy of great Streetfilms news to report.

First in Seattle, bike-riding campaigner Mike McGinn has pulled off a big upset to become the new Mayor-elect.  Though he brings a pro-transit, more livable city message into office, we are particularly proud that on the front page of his campaign website he featured our Streetfilm  "San Francisco: The Removal of the Embarcadero Freeway" which last time we checked a few months ago only had about half the views of the over 10K it has now.  Way to go Mayor-elect Mike!

Today also brought a great note from the Active Transportation Alliance (formerly Chicagoland) telling us they recently got to screen lots of Streetfilms video in front of Mayor Daley who loved it.  They said the footage had a tremendous impact on their meeting and helped visualize their agenda.

Relatedly, who can forget last year we also had this great comment from Leah Shahum, Executive Director of SF Bike Coalition:

• "Streetfilms' Ciclovia video was critical in our efforts to engage city leaders to start our own Sunday Streets program. Showing the video to our Mayor [Gavin Newsom] was the next best thing to flying him to Bogota to witness the joys of Ciclovia firsthand. The success of San Francisco's Sunday Streets owes a great debt to Streetfilms' pioneering work.

To read other Streetfilms praise, we suggest you go here. We just love that page.