Room To Breathe: NYC
Transportation Alternatives (T.A.) gathered a gaggle of cyclists on 42nd Street in Manhattan to stage a dramatic visual that shows how much street space is gained if more people rode bicycles or took mass transit instead of driving personal cars.
"Room to Breathe" is borrowed from a poster featuring a dramatic series of photos taken by Portland's Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) in the mid-1990s. There have been numerous permutations over the years in myriad cities, but this is the first we have documented in NYC.
In this StreetFilm, you'll get a little sneak peak into how this event was staged and hear from volunteers and T.A. staff on why spatial efficiency is so important to the livable streets movement. T.A. aims to have the poster available by Summer 2007.
If anyone's looking to get a copy of the BTA poster, here's where to do that.
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Well, I guess I wished I had volunteered for the shoot now. Great visual.
It's important to be able to physically illustrate your point sometimes and this does so effectively! Bravo!
It's nice to see New York doing a visualization like this. I second TC's point that physically illustrating
Whoops, pressed the wrong button before I could finish my sentence...
What I meant to say was that it's nice to see New York doing a visualization like this. Seconding what TC said, physically illustrating a point is important--we are a visual culture, after all, so this might help folks understand some traffic issues in a new and different way.
I can't believe how much space we're giving away for free to cars!
I hope that this piece gets out into the world in a big way because the message is so big. I have sent the links of several other Streetfilms to the moms group I'm involved in and will definitely send this one on. I think a lot of people are just oblivious to the points made here.
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