Praise from the Experts
"All of you are great human beings who are planting seeds all over to make a better world, where people are happier and we have healthier communities. Thanks for your enthusiastic and most creative work.”
-Gil Peñalosa (former Parks Commissioner Bogota, Colombia)
Executive Director, Walk & Bike For Life
Ontario, Canada
“Streetsblog and Streetfilms are the gold standard in Internet advocacy and education for sustainable transportation - the 21st Century public interest voice for the 21st Century transportation system that we all need.”
-Janette Sadik-Khan
NYC Dept. of Transportation Commissioner
“I enjoyed playing with the model cars today, and I think it will get across the message better than any powerpoint. I wish you could edit all my lectures.”
-Donald Shoup
Author, “High Cost of Free Parking,” Professor UCLA
"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 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."
-Leah Shahum
Executive Director, San Francisco Bicycle Coalition
“You are a Magician and Alchemist of the camera. Streetfilms is the first to capture the spirit of transformation that has made us a great city...well done, the world needs more of Streetfilms.”
-Gilbert Rochecouste
Managing Director, Village Well
Melbourne, Australia
“ There are two kinds of streets - the dangerous and inefficient kind we used to have, and the kind the public now knows is possible thanks to Streetfilms.”
-Paul Steely White
Executive Director, Transportation Alternatives, NYC
“Your film played a key role as we showed it to the city hall staff as part of our presentation. It was a hit! You can be very proud of the great work you are doing in creating changes in attitudes and behaviors. If a picture is worth a thousand words then imagine what thousands of pictures in a film can do.”
-Greg Cantori (commenting on his work on Baltimore’s “Sunday Streets”)
Executive Director, Marion I. & Henry J. Knott Foundation
Baltimore, Maryland
“The key to the indispensable move to sustainable cities is what goes on in people’s minds. We need to harness all available tools to do this job. And in this Streetfilms is making a terrific contribution. Keep at it Streetfilms. Go go go!”
-Eric Britton
The Commons and the New Mobility Agenda
Paris and Los Angeles
“Streetfilms opened the door to major innovation in Portland. Whether your movie about Ciclovia in Bogota leading to Portland's Sunday Parkways or PDOT and NYC DOT staff brainstorming and providing feedback to each other about engineering and education programs, Streetfilms has been a central part of Portland's story for the past three years.”
-Greg Raisman
Community and School Traffic Safety Partnership
Portland Office of Transportation, Oregon
“Streetfilms communicates the message better than any medium I've ever seen. Print articles are good, websites are better, but nothing says it like Streetfilms!”
-Lois Moss, Executive Director, Walk + Roll
Cleveland, Ohio
"We are constantly using StreetFilms as a resource for new ideas and to show planners, businesses, elected officials and local citizens great ideas from around the world. StreetFilms was instrumental in getting approval from the city to put on our Park(ing) Spaces Day. StreetFilms shows that these innovative ideas can happen in real life, no one gets hurt, everyone has fun, and the places that do these great events become better places to live, work and play."
-Sue Prant
Boulder's Walk & Bike Month
Boulder Community Cycles