As you know, in this space I am always trying to find ways to inspire and change our streets for the better, which means giving you tools or film ideas to use in your community. Of late I've been doing some documentation using my GoPro and have been plea ...
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[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/68879662[/vimeo] The exciting news about the big expansion of car-free zones in Central Park and Prospect Park is a milestone in a very long campaign. The movement for car-free parks goes back nearly 50 years -- much farthe ...
I get weekly asks to "please come visit my town/city/country" to make a Streetfilm on a new best practice or a struggle on an issue a group is having. If I had a staff of anyone other than myself, I knew I'd be able to keep them quite busy. Sadly, I do ...
/www.streetfilms.org/some-nice-transportation-videos-on-the-web-you-should-check-out/
I've been waiting for this day for a really long time. Some people I met today have been waiting 45 years! The High Bridge which connects Washington Heights to the Highbridge neighborhood in the Bronx is now waiting for YOU to traverse it. I didn ...
/www.streetfilms.org/nycs-high-bridge-is-open-to-walkers-cyclists-for-the-first-time-in-45-years/
I'm sure there are plenty of you livable streets champions that have documented this phenomenon. I've seen it often. And yesterday was just another fine example of it. I was lucky enough to be invited to walk with Mayor de Blasio's entourage yes ...
/www.streetfilms.org/humans-are-conditioned-to-stay-off-streets-even-when-there-are-no-cars/
[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/129572824[/vimeo]I just got back from a whirlwind one week visit to see London and Cambridge. There was lots of cycling to be had and I had to get used to cycling on the opposite side of the road. But I was really not prepared for ...
/www.streetfilms.org/watch-some-new-videos-from-my-uk-trip-to-london-cambridge/
Often we make short Streetfilms that do not officially get posted on the main site for one reason or another. They may just be quickly edited videos not destined to be up for the long haul or short clips for Streetsblog. Or ones we just don't expected t ...
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[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/126637036[/vimeo] Had a great time at the Congress for New Urbanism Conference in Dallas. It's always great being around transportation & planning people for a few days. Dallas is a city with many challenges and hopefully man ...
/www.streetfilms.org/cnu23-a-wrap-up-of-my-experience-in-dallas-ft-worth/
Earlier this week I was in Albany for a Streetfilms screening as a guest of the Albany Protected Bike Lanes Coalition, a group fighting for better bicycling in New York's capital. About 135 people attended and they did just about everything you can do righ ...
/www.streetfilms.org/host-your-own-free-streetfilms-screening/
[vimeo width="500" height="281"]https://vimeo.com/124354295[/vimeo] Our digital entertainment is all about faster & quicker. The general public has an increasingly shorter attention span. I know I've watched since Youtube's debut in 2005 as the ...
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We've recently posted a few parking "best practices" direct to Vimeos for use by Streetsblog that you likely haven't seen if you don't check both sites frequently. (Which Streetfilms wholeheartedly endorses.) First up: We're big fans of the work ...
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In an effort to continually help advocates, elected leaders and communities use our productions to fight for change in their neighborhoods, I am always looking for ways to manage our content better, despite only being a busy staff of one. (Yes, that's ...
/www.streetfilms.org/streetfilms-excerpts-will-help-you-change-your-community-even-more/
Hey friends, a small plug for my friend Yvonne Bambrick's new book "The Urban Cycling Survival Guide" just out this month for purchase here. The book contains lots of great common sense advice for those new cyclists or those hungry to sharpen their skill ...
[caption id="attachment_57592" align="aligncenter" width="500"] The original photo from Streetsblog's Tuesday post.[/caption] On Tuesday, Streetsblog did a post of photos of the latest round of #sneckdown madness sweeping the nation. I posted one (abo ...
I am gonna keep this simple: are you having difficulty convincing your city/town about the merits of protected bike lanes? Streetfilms can help. The above Streetfilm was put together back when then-New York City Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan was u ...
By now, fans of Streetfilms probably know about the explosion of the hashtag #sneckdown on Twitter earlier this year. Now we are slowly watching another phenomenon roll out and it is easy enough to contribute. In what has to make the Green Lane Project ...
/www.streetfilms.org/inventing-fun-transportation-hashtags-freshkermit/
#bikeNYC is always alive during October. It's a beautiful time to be out riding. It seems of late I've gone on a Streetfilms Shorties tear, which are essentially videos that only take a few hours of shooting & editing for me to publish. I don't spen ...
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The first thing I like to emphasize to folks when they come to see me at conferences to give my Streetfilms University presentation is that if you have a little bit of patience, really anyone can make and edit a decent short film. Even with little or n ...
/www.streetfilms.org/streetfilms-university-the-simple-art-of-editing-you-can-do-it/
A few months ago, I was fortunate to spend a few days observing the tremendous street changes that have occurred in Buenos Aires (documented in our Streetfilm above). I also got to meet and interview Guillermo Dietrich, the architect and force behin ...
/www.streetfilms.org/talking-with-guillermo-dietrich-buenos-aires-head-of-transport/
Last month was a very bad month in the tabloids and local news for NYC bicyclists. As you've probably heard we had two awful tragedies on the loop drive of Central Park in 2014 with cyclists striking pedestrians, killing both. What followed was s ...
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Gasp, was it really eight years ago PARK(ing) Day San Francisco 2006 happened? It only feels like a few years have passed. I'll never forget being in Oakland visiting a friend and learning that PARKing Day was happening the following day. I got up ...
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The Pro Walk Pro Bike Pro Place 2014 conference took place this week in Pittsburgh. Even though the Andy Warhol Bridge already has a nice shared bike-ped path on it, for one week the city decided to put bike lanes on its roadway. It's the simplest ...
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Ah yes, that's the now-famous "Snowy Neckdown Redux: Winter Traffic Calming" Streetfilm above. As you may recall, I shot the video in my Queens neighborhood of Jackson Heights a few years ago to demonstrate how we could extend our curbs further into t ...
[caption id="attachment_57267" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Copenhagen, Denmark[/caption] Yeah, this is a bit of a rant. Thanks to my job I've been fortunate to travel to many amazing cities. And unlike New York City, the greatest ones all have ma ...
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Our newest video showing new-fangled bike stuff from Copenhagen was such an immediate hit (30K plays in 3 days!) I decided not to wait to post a "bonus" video showing the respectful cooperation between turning drivers & cyclists. Why? Well we al ...
Recently I had a quick exchange with a visiting cyclist who was pleasantly amazed at the "extra" space afforded bikes in most NYC protected bike lanes. He was referring to the painted zone between parked cars and the actual "green" bike lane - amazing ...
/www.streetfilms.org/why-do-we-need-a-buffer-in-protected-bike-lanes-well-heres-why/
I was very fortunate to be able to take a long vacation to South America and was in the cities of Buenos Aires, Montevideo and Asuncion. Of course with me a vacation can never be truly 100% relaxing when there is transportation observations to be made ...
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This week while in Asunción, the largest city in Paraguay, I was surprised to learn the country introduced the first railway service on the content - sometime in the 1830s. But sadly, there are no longer any kinds of rail or passenger service here. T ...
/www.streetfilms.org/asuncion-paraguay-a-walk-on-a-bikeway-yields-evidence-of-a-rail-past/
Last year, we debuted a crisply-edited Streetfilm "Children Have Lost the Freedom to Roam" as a chapter in our STREETFACTS series. We were surprised the 4-part educational series didn't do better. However, the last week saw renewed interest as p ...
I was honored this weekend to be a guest of Vélo Québec to ride in the 30th annual Tour de l'Île, a 50km group ride I did way back in 2001 & 2003. It's really a great way to experience the city on car-free roads with 25,000 other people. In f ...
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If you're having trouble garnering public attention for one of your advocacy initatives, one thing you should consider is performing some crafty, quirky street theater or parody. Both equally enlighten, and if done intelligently, lead to action. Str ...
/www.streetfilms.org/streetfilms-street-theater-public-parody-as-effective-advocacy/
Today I fly back to NYC after nearly a week in Dallas and Houston. For a guy from the Northeast I have been both pleasantly surprised by nice things I've seen and also intimidated by the numbers of cars - big cars - everywhere I go. Here are just a f ...
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Sometimes I have bits of video or short stories that don't amount to a full on Streetfilm, but I want to get them out in the world anyway. On our Vimeo account you'll often see some of these thrown up with little fanfare, most with only a few hundred pla ...
/www.streetfilms.org/streetfilms-shorties-hal-teaser-gopro-citi-bike-test-guadalajaras-plazas/
I can't help that I'm a obsessive creature when it comes to anything to do with transportation and complete streets. But what really gets me irked is the awful treatment the movie industry to continues to spew on our wonderful car-free spaces in Times S ...
/www.streetfilms.org/hollywood-screws-up-times-square-once-again/
It's been quite a ride we've had the last six weeks on the sneckdown train. At least 40 publications & blog posts since January 2nd including the BBC, The Economist, and The Atlantic Cities. I even got on the local news here in NYC on WPIX. As of D ...
/www.streetfilms.org/beyond-sneckdown-five-other-street-conditions-you-can-observe/
A few weeks ago we posted our newest video "The Rise of Open Streets," a joint production with The Street Plans Collaborative and the Alliance for Biking & Walking. We're excited to announce that sometime in March there will be a collection of ...
/www.streetfilms.org/the-rise-of-open-streets-8-years-of-ciclovia-videos-on-streetfilms/
Nearly everywhere in the livable streets world you look, the sneckdown phenomenon is growing - with hundreds of photos tagged #sneckdown on Twitter in the last month. Although the majority of news articles & blogging sites have done a commendab ...
I just love hearing success stories like this. Take a gander at this new video from Lviv, Ukraine which shows off some of their recent cycling infra successes in 2013. The film was sent to me by Demyan Danyluk who's been a big Streetfilms fan sinc ...
/www.streetfilms.org/very-cool-streetfilms-news-fromthe-ukraine/
As many of you may know by now, yesterday NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio held a historic press conference to announce the beginnings of implementing a "Vision Zero" approach to NYC's dangerous streets. We decided to take the unusual route and put up a good dea ...
Now that former NYC DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan has moved on to her next transportation chapter, Streetfilms thought the time was perfect to look back at some of her greatest moments with us. We've always had a great relationship with Janette and ...
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With the publication of our new Streetfilm on the recent success of bike share in North America in 2013 (in partnership with ITDP), we wanted to remind you we have done more bike share videos than anybody, anywhere else in the world. We started out with ...
/www.streetfilms.org/many-more-bike-share-systems-to-watch-on-streetfilms/
In New York City, every Sunday in December you can ride vintage trains between 2nd Avenue and Queens Plaza in Queens. It's a rare treat and wonderful MTA tribute to a bygone era. It's a unique experience to be amongst train nuts & transit aficionad ...
/www.streetfilms.org/nyc-transit-time-warp-get-out-and-ride-vintage-subways-on-sundays-in-december/
Streetfilms Shortie - Dancing in Corona Plaza from Streetfilms on Vimeo. Mega-wowsers! Today out in Corona Plaza there was a big press event to announce an $800,000 donation from JPMorgan Chase Foundation to the Neighborhood Plaza Partnership which ...
/www.streetfilms.org/corona-plaza-one-of-the-best-pedestrian-spaces-in-nyc-gets-a-big-boost/
The answer to that question should be zero. But in NYC and many other cities we allow drivers to do whatever they like with very few consequences. And as we have seen far too many times in just the past few weeks, if a driver mounts a sidewalk and runs ove ...
Since we have over 500 Streetfilms, invariably there are some I thought deserved far more viewers then they ultimately got. And some of these I really enjoyed working on or believed are important to see. Since I was recently asked which of my Streetfilms I ...
/www.streetfilms.org/five-great-streetfilms-you-may-have-missed-so-watch-em-now/
Portland Now Has 100 Street Bike Corrals! from Streetfilms on Vimeo. Above is a Streetfilms Shortie showing that Portland, OR is now up to an astounding 100 bike corrals, far more than any other U.S. city has installed. And they can't keep up with ...
By now if you haven't seen our Streetfilm "Groningen: The World's Cycling City" you should check it out. Like, now! It has broken every single Streetfilms viewing record - it had nearly 40,000 plays in just its first week! One of the folks you'll see fe ...
/www.streetfilms.org/even-more-from-the-netherlands-ride-from-assen-to-groningen/
I often preach in Streetfilms University that sometimes the most effective advocacy videos are extremely simple. They just show real events/conditions on the ground as they happen. Fortunately, you'll only need a steady hand and be willing to stake out a ...
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Last week I was in Pittsburgh on a panel for the Pro Walk/Pro Bike/Pro Place 2013: Moving People Forward Summit. It's a warmup for the much larger 2014 conference which will be also held there. Put it on your calendar. It's no secret that Pittsburgh is ...
It's always nice to see nature and beauty pop up places you wouldn't expect. Near the western terminus of Queens' 34th Avenue, there are two auto body shops at the corner of 64th Street that go the extra mile to make their corner of the world a little brig ...
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