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Washington DC: The Art of Daylighting
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.
NACTO 2025 (DC) Streetfilms & Highlights!
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
After 20 Years & 1,120+ Streetfilms Look at all these Wonderful Selfies!
To further celebrate my 20 years at Open Plans making Streetfilms I decided to take a quick look thru my selfies with other famous folks and made four panels of creations to show off the diverse community of folks I have had the pleasure to have along on my journey.
DC's 15th Street Protected Bike Lane Has Gone Fabulous!
While I was in Washington, DC for the NACTO Conference, I was told by many residents to go check out the art along the 15th street protected 2-way bike lane to celebrate World Pride DC 2025. Now you can watch via my montage!
NYC's Queensborough Bridge Has Separate Paths for Pedestrians & Bicycles!
New Yorkers commuting, running, walking & exercising over the Queensborough Bridge have been advocating for separate paths on the span for nearly 10 years. On Sunday, May 18th, 2025 they finally got their wish
See How Daylighting Works (From 5 Angles)
There may not be a video quite like this, riding down Third Avenue - one of Manhattan's best double-wide, protected bike lanes - I got footage from many angles to show daylighting in action including pedestrian, driver, bicyclist and even the daylighting itself!
Ten Really Cool People I’ve Made Streetfilms With!
It was extremely hard to make choices for this top ten list, but I think you’ll find this grouping of transportation megastars I had fun making films with to be enjoyable and insightful.
Top 5 Most Influential Streetfilms of all time (as we celebrate 20 years!)
Reaching May 1, 2025 means there have been 20 years of Streetfilms! In this post, we’ll look at what are likely the Top Five films that had the biggest impact in the world. (But feel free to disagree, there are 1,106+ others…)
Streetfilms on the Radio Free Urbanism Podcast
I was happy to be invited by Nic Laporte and Ethan Meyers to talk on Radio Free Urbanism about my work on Streetfilms and over an hour it features lots of conversation about transportation in NYC and all over the world.
See Ghent’s Tremendous Quality of Life In All Its Streefilms Glory
Ghent, Belgium instituted a Traffic Circulation Plan in 2017 and ever since its residents have experienced a better quality of life by limiting the intrusion of car trips thru the city center - leading to safer, quieter streets and making the environment for walking, biking and taking transit. Here you’ll see some of our best Streetfilms that will have you envying their journey and wanting it for your city too!
Ghent Kicked Out the Cars So You Can Walk, Bike, Live & Thrive in the City
This is my 1,111th Streetfilm!
See what it is like to live and visit Ghent, Belgium. Thanks to the Traffic Circulation Plan implemented in 2019 the city is safer to get around by bike, foot & transit, it’s quieter, less pollution and now more trips are made by bike in city center versus vehicles.
Foot Traffic Jam for Congestion Pricing!
To continue to support the great news of Congestion Pricing’s overwhelming success, Transportation Alternatives held a dance off near Columbus Circle.
Clarence Eckerson Jr. Featured on Active Towns!
Streetfilms has been lucky enough to get oft-mentioned in some of Active Towns chats and our director Clarence Eckerson Jr. has been in a few fun episodes. Watch!
A Streetfilms Investigation: Why is Nobody Using These CitiBikes?
Come along for our exploration investigation in to why uninformed and unenlightened New York residents (who essentially do not like Citi bikes) believe posting one photo of a Citi bike dock equals to them that the station is not in use. Of course, that is totally ridiculous.!
New Yorkers Rally in Times Square to tell Trump Congestion Pricing is staying put!
On Saturday hundreds of angry New Yorkers came out to tell President Trump and his Transportation Secretary that Congestion Pricing is here and we cannot go back to the way before when the city was choked with traffic.