I was so honored to have this story from John Surico published in Hell Gate. It features so many comments from many influential people in the transportation/urbanist field who have used my films or been influenced by them. It’s very thorough and really got me a little choked up on the first read thru. Click “read more” to take yourself there!

Congratulations to NYC Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani and his team & volunteers. And now it’s time put NYC on a fast track to making our streets more safe & fair to all modes. I’ve chosen 5 Streetfilms from our vast library that might be most helpful to his administration to guide change.

A few months ago, the Meatpacking District in NYC decided that a loud 60 foot roadway on West 14th Street was too much and thwarted opportunities to get more folks to linger and shop as they passed thru. So they converted it into a green, relaxing promenade and took back 36 feet of roadway filling it with plenty of places for people to pause.

Wherever you go in the world you can’t go wrong with making crowded business streets safer and more friendly to pedestrians. Here are five Streetfilms showing the different ways you can achieve that whether 24-7-365, seasonal installations, time limitations or just making designing for local traffic only!

The Kia Oval is a famous large cricket stadium in London that seats 27,500! And now about half of the perimeter of space surrounding the stadium are two schools streets at Henry Fawcett Primary School and St. Mark's C of E Primary School.

This converted London intersection in the Borough of Lambeth has it all: a modal filter, bike priority, outdoor dining, new brick pavers, camera-enforcement, bioswales & seating. It's one-stop shopping for so much good urbanism and making people-first spaces.

My standing piece of advice for those who live in North America who pine to see the best-practice streets of dozens of places in Europe or want to educate colleague/friends what’s possible: just go to Montreal! It’s much closer! It’s fun, vibrant & welcoming to human beings not in cars!

I was lucky to have Patrick Murphy from the powerhouse urban Youtube channel "Oh the Urbanity!" show me around his Montreal neighborhood. We got to see a school street, ample daylighting with bioswales, a diagonal diverter, new public plazas, new bike lane treatments, a granite-protected median and of course, omnipresent Montreal art!

Continuing our series looking at how car-free/car-light areas are good for business, we got to walk around Stockholm's incredibly elegant network of pedestrian streets and see just how most of the businesses on the street are filled with customers and diners.

All you need to know: The 2025 lengthened edition is by far the best, most car-free bike fun I have ever had the experience of doing in NYC!

Streetfilms in London was there when the news broke that latest counts show there are now MORE bikes than cars in the City of London! Yes, that is a relatively small section of the entire city, but it is significant. Everywhere you go in London you see people on bikes, and every visit I return I can't believe how many more bike riders there are.

NYC doesn't have year-round outdoor dining. And it is just a shame and an error. We went to Washington, DC which is one of many places that has kept outdoor dining to see how it is working.

A few years back, London’s Church Street installed measures to keep thru traffic off of their high (or business) street. The key to the success is a bus gate at either end that only allows bus traffic from 7am to 7pm daily. Plus numerous modal filters as you approach Church. And all of them are enforced by cameras.

Everytime I visit the nation's capital, I love that daylighting is everywhere. I started seeing so much beauty and color that I sought out a few folks who could tell me about how it came about, how intersections are safer with it and the meaning behind a few of the murals.

End of May 2025, I travelled to the annual NACTO Conference, this time in Washington, DC. Got to experience and do plenty while seeing old friends and making new ones. See lots of media clicking thru and reading some of my observations but also taking in so many of the visuals and