January 25, 2023
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/791888501[/vimeo]
In NYC at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, Mayor Bill de Blasio set aside a small number of streets throughout NYC as open streets. None was as popular or as successful as Queens' 34th Avenue, it started ...
/www.streetfilms.org/designing-open-streets-plaza-blocks-the-transformation-of-nycs-34th-ave/
November 25, 2022
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/770929218[/vimeo] ...
/www.streetfilms.org/the-war-on-cars-community-board-99/
November 10, 2022
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/768255907[/vimeo]Last year while filming my NYC Family Cargo Bike documentary, one of the featured people I interviewed by chance was Charlie Todd from the NYC-cool Improv Everywhere group (You can see that most excellent Streetfil ...
/www.streetfilms.org/biking-around-hells-kitchens-new-spaces-with-charlie-todd/
November 8, 2022
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/767373381[/vimeo]
At Transportation Alternatives' Vision Zero Cites Conference in October, some session attendees opted to see some of the transformative progress going on just over the Hudson River in the cities of Hoboken & ...
/www.streetfilms.org/hoboken-jersey-city-see-the-vision-zero-cities-bike-tour/
October 27, 2022
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/760593762[/vimeo]
Just a short one minute PSA showcasing how badly trash has taken over our sidewalks and one of the new solutions being pursued by NYC. Open Plans' Sara Lind met me in the Financial District to search for some h ...
/www.streetfilms.org/see-the-nyc-garbage-pilot-psa/
October 20, 2022
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/764667341[/vimeo]
On Saturday Transportation Alternatives held a bike rally asking for protected bike lanes for the residents of Harlem, the neighborhood with the least amount of protected bike lanes in all of Manhattan. ...
/www.streetfilms.org/nyc-needs-a-central-harlem-bikeway-on-adam-clayton-powell-blvd/
October 13, 2022
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/759652437[/vimeo]
Recently, Streetfilms returned to Pittsburgh for the first time since 2014 just to see what is going on and any cool stuff that has happened since. Didn't really plan anything out, just met up with a few folks ...
/www.streetfilms.org/pittsburgh-the-steel-bicycling-city/
September 30, 2022
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/752938097[/vimeo]
People have been visiting Paris for centuries for the food, the wine, the museums, the cheese and even the snails, but when New Yorkers head to the City of Light these days, all they see are the bike lanes.
...
/www.streetfilms.org/paris-vs-nyc-what-its-like-to-bike/
September 7, 2022
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/744443153[/vimeo]
Just look around the world with the massive school streets movements in London, Paris and Barcelona, and it is easy to see that making the arrival environment outside safer for students to walk and bike is a po ...
/www.streetfilms.org/school-streets-making-our-streets-safer-for-children/
September 6, 2022
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/744443153[/vimeo]
Just look around the world with the massive school streets movements in London, Paris and Barcelona, and it is easy to see that making the arrival environment outside safer for students to walk and bike is a popu ...
/www.streetfilms.org/school-streets-safe-space-for-kids-to-thrive-teaser-short-version/
August 3, 2022
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/736055698[/vimeo]
In my fifth Streetfilm from my Paris trip, I was honored to bike ride around with author and Uber-advocate Stein Van Oosteren to see some of Paris’ best bike lanes and hear some of the background on each.
...
/www.streetfilms.org/paris-bike-ride-with-stein-van-oosteren/
July 22, 2022
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/732353686[/vimeo]
Continuing our Streetfilms series of looking at Paris, we already present our 3rd (of a half dozen expected) video short.
While in Paris, Streetfilms met up with Open Plans Founder, Mark Gorton, and recorded ...
/www.streetfilms.org/the-peaceful-pedestrian-plazas-of-paris-lessons-for-your-city/
July 17, 2022
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/731004456[/vimeo]
I just got back from Paris to bike around (many Streetfilms coming) and it is so much fun to ride on some of their newest super-wide bike lanes. The comfort level is amazing - none so much as the Rue de Rivoli ...
/www.streetfilms.org/nycs-bike-lanes-are-too-narrow-see-how-paris-widened-the-rue-de-rivoli/
July 15, 2022
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/728560214[/vimeo]
Minneapolis has not had one cyclist death in over 2 years!
It is certainly one of NYC's best cities to bike in and getting even better with commitment to on-street protected or sidewalk-level paths. It has a ...
/www.streetfilms.org/revisiting-bicycling-in-minneapolis-one-of-usas-top-bicycling-cities/
June 13, 2022
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/719227550[/vimeo]Scott Ambinder's dedication to Citi Bike is impressive. For one, he has docked at least once at all 1,674 locations throughout NYC (and New Jersey's Hoboken & Jersey City!) He's a fountain of knowledge when it ...
/www.streetfilms.org/scott-ambinder-has-docked-at-all-1674-citi-bike-stations/
June 11, 2022
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/719660452[/vimeo]
Wowsers! Been living in NYC for 30 years and this is the first time I have ever heard/been to an organized "Pool Noodle Ride"!
The exciting thing is it is happening in a place you don't normally see advocacy ...
/www.streetfilms.org/this-might-be-nycs-first-pool-noodle-bike-ride-it-is/
May 20, 2022
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/710647768[/vimeo]
Last month I had a chance encounter with Rosa Suriñach on the United Nations Bike Ride (link here: https://youtu.be/sEMlTQZqO0k) when we both realized we were winners of the 2022 World Bicycle Day recognition. ...
/www.streetfilms.org/kid-wheel-power-barcelona-bici-bus-is-magic/
May 17, 2022
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/709913341[/vimeo]
Sam Balto (or "Coach Balto" as he is known since he is a PE teacher in Portland, OR) is a very active member of the Twitterverse worldwide gaggle of advocates for safer & better streets.
He recently took a t ...
/www.streetfilms.org/londons-school-streets-up-close/
May 6, 2022
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/706936482[/vimeo]When friends heard the release of the new Citi Bike e-bikes into the wild was imminent, many wanted to me give them a review ASAP. Little did I know I would get invited to the first public unveiling where we had a ...
/www.streetfilms.org/check-out-the-newest-2022-citi-bike-e-bikes-exclusive-kickoff-ride-with-streetfilms/
May 1, 2022
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/704313841[/vimeo]
Some of NYC's biggest cycling heavyweights showed up for a ride with the United Nations to help support the goal to advocate for cycling as a priority transportation mode and essential service for achieving the ...
/www.streetfilms.org/un-nyc-bike-tour/
April 16, 2022
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/699637806[/vimeo]
Announcing very exciting news as Clarence Eckerson, Jr. the director & producer of over 1,000 videos for Streetfilms over the past 17 years, has been selected by the United Nations as a Lifetime Achievement ...
/www.streetfilms.org/announcing-the-2022-world-bicycle-day-award-for-streetfilms/
April 6, 2022
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/696280765[/vimeo]At the end of March, The League of American Bicyclists tried out a hybrid style Bike Summit 2022 due to the pandemic's still uncertain effect on daily life. I liked that some of it was on-line and a good deal of it ...
/www.streetfilms.org/washington-dc-a-biking-streetfilms-adventure/
April 3, 2022
About 200 folks turned out for yesterday's Women's Ride from The Bronx. Tune in to see the merriment, fun and statement the day made for some of the participants.
The ride was put on by The Bronx Committee and staff of Transportation Alternatives. There ...
/www.streetfilms.org/womens-ride-the-bronx-2022/
April 1, 2022
Just having a little fun re-editing some old stuff. I usually never use fast motion or slow-mo in anything I do. But for some reason this just hit the spot. This is footage from my 2019 Utrecht trip where I made numerous Streetfilms. Enjoy!
[vimeo]https ...
/www.streetfilms.org/fast-motion-fun-bicycling-around-utrecht/
March 29, 2022
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/693770849[/vimeo]
Come along with "DC's Cycling Concierge" Jeff Miller as he leads a ride to see Washington D.C.'s cherry blossoms in full bloom for this year's Bike Summit Conference 2022 from The League of American Bicyclists! ...
/www.streetfilms.org/washington-dc-blossoms-bike-tour-2022/
March 20, 2022
After this winter FINALLY unearthing this raw footage I have been searching everywhere for the better part of ten years, I've finally been able to see all of the hilarious stuff left on the cutting room when Kate McKinnon played the fictional A.U.T.O. lobb ...
/www.streetfilms.org/a-u-t-o-lobbyist-veronica-moss-visits-times-square-2022-re-mix/
March 8, 2022
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/686105917[/vimeo]
Here's a cool one. I have been revisiting some of my old footage as I await being able to travel some. I did a great film about Nijmegen you may have seen. But as with many things I shoot I had to leave a ton o ...
/www.streetfilms.org/the-nijmegen-railway-bridge-is-also-a-fantastically-cool-bridge-to-bike/
March 7, 2022
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/686112093[/vimeo]
Last week on the same day I found myself visiting both Grand Central Terminal and Penn Station with my son due to a fun multi-train/subway/bus sojourn all over the city. And while I am appreciating some of the ...
/www.streetfilms.org/rotterdam-central-a-peaceful-transportation-hive-of-human-activity/
February 27, 2022
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/680018441[/vimeo]Huge news! Both NYC Mayor Eric Adams and NYC DOT Commissioner visited the NYC Open Street on 34th Avenue in Jackson Heights, Queens as guests of newly-elected councilman Shekar Krishnan (25th District) to tour just ...
/www.streetfilms.org/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-visits-34th-avenue-open-street/
January 26, 2022
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/670458930[/vimeo]See....
-Amsterdam's bike ferries to North Amsterdam
-Utrecht's Vredenburg: The busiest Dutch bike path
-Groningen's Circulation Plan and how it led to a 60% bike mode share
-Rotterdam's Trams on Grass ...
/www.streetfilms.org/ode-to-the-netherlands-streetfilms-favorite-dutch-bike-things/
January 10, 2022
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/663796981[/vimeo]
If you've lived in New York City for a long time, you'll realize there are many more cargo bikes cruising the streets! It used to be rare you'd see one, but the last five years their presence has undoubtedly be ...
/www.streetfilms.org/the-nyc-cargo-bike-revolution-more-families-take-to-the-streets/
December 10, 2021
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/653991741[/vimeo]
Earlier this year the NYC DOT announced it would pilot one bike boulevard in each of the five boroughs. Some were actually on the ambitious side and none more so than in Sunnyside, Queens where 39th Avenue (whi ...
/www.streetfilms.org/bike-boulevards-debut-in-nyc-check-out-queens-39th-avenue/
November 30, 2021
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/645074791[/vimeo]
Here's an absolutely great interview between Open Plans' Mark Gorton and NYC's Meatpacking BID Director Jeffrey LeFrancois. Intended to be the first of an on-going series with Mark Gorton where he interviews ne ...
/www.streetfilms.org/talking-public-spaces-with-mark-gorton-episode-one-with-meatpacking-bid-jeffrey-lefrancois/
November 16, 2021
Over 100 hundred cyclists turned out to see the newly implemented Phase IV of the Queens Boulevard bike and walking paths on the street that once was known as The Boulevard of Death.
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/645856294[/vimeo] ...
/www.streetfilms.org/queens-blvd-victory-bike-ride-a-safer-street-over-10-years-in-the-making/
November 7, 2021
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/642804199[/vimeo]After interviewing acclaimed transportation legend Janette Sadik-Khan for a long gestating project about Union Square this summer (coming soon, I promise!) I asked if she'd been out to check out NYC's now famous 34 ...
/www.streetfilms.org/nycs-streetfighter-on-nycs-best-open-street-janette-sadik-khan-visits-34th-avenue/
November 3, 2021
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/640227702[/vimeo]
Talk to Jerome Horne for just a few minutes and you already know the man lives and breathes transit & transportation. I've wanted to do a profile on him for a while being a longtime follower of his on Twitter ...
/www.streetfilms.org/exploring-new-york-city-with-transit-evangelist-jerome-alexander-horne/
October 15, 2021
We sent our reporter extraordinaire Zardoz out on NYC's streets for a few hours to check out just how NYC's issuing of a Gridlock Alert Week of traffic armageddon is going.
As always, not good. Utter uselessness. A sock puppet could have predicted this.
...
/www.streetfilms.org/the-uselessness-of-gridlock-alert-days-2/
October 15, 2021
A new temporary (Saturdays in October) plaza in SoHo is called "LIttle Prince Plaza"
This stat just says it all:
Cars
Last known vehicular count: 4,639 a day (2019)
Little Prince Plaza 2pm - 5pm
Bike: 398 people cycling
Ped: 8,916 people walking
...
/www.streetfilms.org/spend-saturdays-in-october-at-little-prince-plaza/
October 15, 2021
So following my 1,000th Streetfilm I put together a quick montage sample of all the Streetfilms/bikeTV to prepare for some media. I will be joining John Simmerman for his 100th podcast interview and it just seemed the time to let people see what I have bee ...
/www.streetfilms.org/clarence-in-streetfilms-2000-2021-montage/
September 25, 2021
Here is one we really should have released a long time ago!
A few years ago "Streetopia" in NYC was conceived as an idea to get people motivated to take back their streets and change our streets for the better. The event was held at the Museum of the City ...
/www.streetfilms.org/psa-secret-mission-with-janette-sadik-khan/
September 25, 2021
We sent our reporter extraordinaire Zardoz out on NYC's streets for a few hours to check out just how NYC's issuing of a Gridlock Alert Week of traffic armageddon is going.
As always, not good. Utter uselessness. A sock puppet could have predicted this.
...
/www.streetfilms.org/the-uselessness-of-gridlock-alert-days/
September 16, 2021
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/606226608[/vimeo]No wonder they call it the Great White North.
Last month, I journeyed to Montréal, a city I have visited many times in the last three decades, to see how much progress it has made in reining in the car culture, ...
/www.streetfilms.org/montreals-popular-pedestrian-open-streets/
September 8, 2021
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/599599785[/vimeo]
THIS IS THE 1,000TH STREETFILM OF ALL-TIME!
I was preparing to plan a visit Montreal (and also Paris!) just as Covid-19 halted plans last year. But one benefit of that delay is that my visit last month allow ...
/www.streetfilms.org/biking-montreal-montreals-newest-bicycling-infrastructure-dazzles/
September 7, 2021
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/591085732[/vimeo]
Greater Boston’s bus system is undergoing a long overdue transformation. From redesigning the network to pursuing electrification to completely re-imagined streets primed for better bus service, the experienc ...
/www.streetfilms.org/greater-bostons-bus-transformation/
September 7, 2021
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September 5, 2021
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/595682968[/vimeo]
When I visited Montreal last week, I knew I was gonna produce Streetfilms on bicycling and the hugely wonderful pedestrianized streets program.
However, I always have been fascinated the ample and omnipresent cu ...
/www.streetfilms.org/why-does-montreal-have-so-many-beautiful-curb-extensions-5-days-agomore/
August 30, 2021
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/479985975[/vimeo]
Actor. Writer. Minor social media legend. Gentleman cyclist.
This week, Streetfilms tagged along with actor George Hahn for a very special episode: “How to Ride Like a Gentleman.”
In this film, we explore ...
/www.streetfilms.org/george-hahn-how-to-ride-your-bike-like-a-gentleman-or-a-lady/
May 16, 2021
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/549153207[/vimeo]
It was once again time to ask people how much they enjoy the 34th Ave open street in Jackson Heights, so I went out for about an hour yesterday to ask folks to tell me. It wasn't hard to find people to talk sin ...
/www.streetfilms.org/what-do-you-like-about-34th-ave-open-street/