[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/478595524[/vimeo] Biking is cheap. Biking is fast. Biking promotes independence and exploration. Biking is great exercise. And, biking sure is FUN! What better way for New York City's teens to navigate the city and get themselves ...
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More NYC Teens are Biking to School
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Manhattan’s 1st Ave Bike Counts Show Bikes Need More Space
April 18, 2021[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/531338199[/vimeo] A new vehicle count on First Avenue showed that cars and trucks barely outnumbered bikes, despite drivers getting almost 12 times as much space on the uptown roadway — the second East Side roadway whose mode ...
/www.streetfilms.org/manhattans-1st-ave-bike-counts-show-bikes-need-more-space/
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Make your own “Bike Counts” Video and Change Your Streets!
April 15, 2021[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/531338199[/vimeo] A few weeks ago, I published two eye-opening videos I shot on a pair of Manhattan's Avenues with protected bike lanes (one at the 1st Ave & Queensboro Bridge entrance, the other used multiple intersections ...
/www.streetfilms.org/make-your-own-bike-counts-video-and-change-your-streets/
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Jersey City’s Quick Build Bike Network
December 23, 2020Last year in Jersey City, NJ we followed some of the meetings, rides, and community outreach around the development of their ambitious Bicycle Master Plan. A few weeks ago we paid a visit to see how well implementation is going and despite the complicat ...
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In NYC You Can Go By Bike on the Pedestrian Signal!
November 30, 2020So with a great "new" law on the books that allows bicycle riders to also legally use pedestrian signals (LPIs) to get a 5 to 10 second head start on drivers in NYC why did it take Streetfilms nearly a year to talk to the two people most responsible for it ...
/www.streetfilms.org/in-nyc-you-can-go-by-bike-on-the-pedestrian-signal/
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How to Ride Your Bike Like a Gentleman (or a Lady)
November 23, 2020This is a fun video. Some etiquette. Some style. Some advocacy. But all fun! ...
/www.streetfilms.org/how-to-ride-your-bike-like-a-gentleman-or-a-lady/
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Justice Ride V: 1000s bike the StreetRiders NYC “Independence Not”
September 21, 2020 ...
/www.streetfilms.org/justice-ride-v-1000s-bike-the-streetriders-nyc-independence-not/
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Experience the Gov. Mario Cuomo/Tappan Zee Bridge Path
September 21, 2020 ...
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NYC Restaurants Need Open Streets NOW
September 21, 2020StreetFilms latest release is "NYC Restaurants Need Open Streets NOW". Produced and hosted by Henry Rinehart. Open Streets NOW takes us on a bike ride around NYC to hear from some of the city’s finest restaurateurs and chefs about how open streets mee ...
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Future Streets: Little West 12th Street in NYC’s Meatpacking District
September 21, 2020Little West 12th Street in the Meatpacking District has been transformed from an underused open street into a bustling, lively hangout thanks to 5,000 square feet of donated sod — Exhibit A in the open-and-shut case for more car-free streets in pedestria ...
/www.streetfilms.org/future-streets-little-west-12th-street-in-nycs-meatpacking-district/
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100+ Bikes Upgraded with Care at Big Fix Day BK in East New York
September 20, 2020New York City Bike Mayor Courtney Williams provided the nucleus for Brooklyn's Big Fix Day, an event that brings out bike mechanics to the neediest area of the city, in this case East New York and the surrounding communities, to sponsor free bicycle fixing ...
/www.streetfilms.org/100-bikes-upgraded-with-care-at-big-fix-day-bk-in-east-new-york/
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Miracle on 34th Avenue: NYC’s Best Open Street is in Queens
June 4, 2020The Jackson Heights, Corona and Elmhurst areas of Queens were among the hardest hit in the United States by the Covid-19 epidemic. This film looks at the months-long struggle in Jackson Heights to get an open street on its beautiful tree-lined 34th Avenue. ...
/www.streetfilms.org/miracle-on-34th-avenue-nycs-best-open-street-is-in-queens/
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Coronavirus Has Changed Our Streets And We Need To Heed Those Lessons
April 20, 2020I live in NYC's Jackson Heights, 11372. Which is currently among the hardest hit zip-codes in the USA for Coronavirus cases and fatalities. It has been a tough month for many of our neighbors and friends. I get outside for a socially distanced hour ever ...
/www.streetfilms.org/coronavirus-has-changed-our-streets-and-we-need-to-heed-those-lessons/
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Is Using a Bike for Transport the Best way to Avoid the Coronavirus?
March 22, 2020Yesterday, Streetfilms went to the foot of the Queensborough Bridge to ask bicycling commuters if they are using their bikes more due to the novel Coronavirus or if they see the benefits in doing such on a daily basis. They day prior both the Mayor and ...
/www.streetfilms.org/is-using-a-bike-for-transport-the-best-way-to-avoid-the-coronavirus/
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The Streets Have Changed: A NYC Bicycle Journey During the Coronavirus
March 22, 2020I hadn't been on my bicycle in over a week, choosing to walk and run for exercise during the Coronavirus (and observing recommended precautions) but I was curious what my normal commute looked like. So on Friday I chose to get my exercise by bicycling in t ...
/www.streetfilms.org/the-streets-have-changed-a-nyc-bicycle-journey-during-the-coronavirus/
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Happy Valentine’s Bike Day Montage!
February 12, 2020Well it's February 14th. And I just decided that for the first time ever Streetfilms was gonna do some happy, loving Valentine's Day biking imagery for a card to our subscribers and fans. I sifted thru about 30 Streetfilms over the past ten years and li ...
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All of our Ghent, Belgium Streetfilms in a Big Post!
January 5, 2020[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/379854529[/vimeo] As we worked towards our final edit for the anchor Ghent Streetfilm on the installation of their Circulation Plan, there were many smaller items we knew wouldn't make the final cut or were better off as quick i ...
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The Innovative Way Ghent, Belgium Removed Cars From The City
January 1, 2020Witness the transformation of Ghent, Belgium, who instituted the Traffic Circulation Plan in April 2017, which completely changed the way nearly every resident gets around the city and has inspired unheard of mode shifts. It encourages less car use, mor ...
/www.streetfilms.org/the-innovative-way-ghent-belgium-removed-cars-from-the-city/
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Ghent’s Political & Media Obstacles to Implementing the Traffic Circulation Plan
January 1, 2020SUPPLEMENTAL CONTENT! We had to cut out so much from our Ghent Streetfilm on The Circulation Plan and how wonderful it was for the country. We probably could have released a 30 minute version!! But we had to take out over half of the section on the ...
/www.streetfilms.org/ghents-political-media-obstacles-to-implementing-the-traffic-circulation-plan/
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Oonee Debuts Bike Parking in Brooklyn
December 14, 2019A spectacular event in the pouring rain with major elected officials in NYC as Oonee pod debuted their first Brooklyn bike parking pod at Atlantic Center near Barclays Center. The pod holds parking for 20 bikes which can serve about 150 members at a time. ...
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Madison Square Before & After Pedestrian Plazas (and more!)
December 12, 2019Check out this video montage showing how horrible and inhumane Madison Square/Flatiron Building area was for pedestrians & cyclists in 2007 compared to now! ...
/www.streetfilms.org/madison-square-before-after-pedestrian-plazas-and-more/
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Bus Lane in Bloom: Flower Street and the Urgency of Speeding Up LA Bus Service
December 12, 2019Slow, unreliable bus service is a major problem for transit riders in Los Angeles. Since 1994, average LA Metro bus speeds have dropped more than 12 percent. Bus riders account for nearly three-quarters of all LA Metro fixed-route transit trips, but bus ri ...
/www.streetfilms.org/bus-lane-in-bloom-flower-street-and-the-urgency-of-speeding-up-la-bus-service/
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The Smashing Success of NYC’s 14th Street Busway (featuring Zardoz)
November 8, 2019Since just about everyone around the world has been asking where is Streetfilms' coverage of the 14th Street Busway, the true answer has basically been: just about everyone else did such a pretty good job documenting (and mostly loving) it, that I really f ...
/www.streetfilms.org/the-smashing-success-of-nycs-14th-street-busway-featuring-zardoz/
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The Case for Dedicating the Queensboro Bridge’s South Outer Roadway To Pedestrians: Now!
October 2, 2019In the 1990s, cyclists fought hard to finally gain access to the Queensboro Bridge when the city dedicated one of its 10 lanes to shared bike & pedestrian use. That was acceptable back when few commuters used those modes on the bridge. Now? ...
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The Climate March: A Streets Perspective (2019)
September 21, 2019Where can you find the ONLY coverage of NYC's Climate Strike including a Manhattan march, a group bike ride and PARKing Day 2019 all wrapped in one tidy package? (And also shot only by human power over 5 hours at dozens of locations?) Well right here o ...
/www.streetfilms.org/the-climate-march-a-streets-perspective-2019/
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Letting Citizens Redesign Their Streets: Mark Gorton Talks with Amsterdam’s Rocco Piers
September 6, 2019This is essentially a follow-up from our smashingly popular Streetfilm from earlier this year where Amsterdam's new government announced they were removing 10,000 parking spaces from the streets. Mark Gorton, the Chairman of Open Plans was curious to the ...
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Jersey City’s Bike Master Plan: Using Surveys, Rides & Tactical Urbanism to Generate a Connected Network
August 16, 2019Let's Ride JC is Jersey City's first bicycle master plan. While multi-faceted, the project's cornerstone is the development of a low-stress, protected bikeway network serving neighborhoods citywide. Developed in just over a year, and in conjunction with J ...
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Touring Delft with the Bruntlett Family: The City That Keeps Cyclists Moving
July 18, 2019Streetfilms has known the Bruntlett's for quite some time. In fact, Chris & Melissa, co-authors of "Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality" once told me that the 2013 Streetfilm on Groningen, was the vital juice that motivate ...
/www.streetfilms.org/touring-delft-with-the-bruntlett-family-the-city-that-keeps-cyclists-moving/
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Copenhagenize Just Announced its Top 20 Bicycle Cities for 2019, We’ve Got Films!
June 27, 2019Very exciting to see that Streetfilms has visited a record number (half!) of the the cities in this year's version of the Copenhagenize Top 20 Bicycle Cities! You can take a gander at the complete list here on their website, but here is a sample of t ...
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Utrecht: Planning for People & Bikes, Not for Cars
June 27, 2019Utrecht is a city with unbelievable momentum for altering how its city center integrates with people. They've been slowly pushing the car out for decades in favor of bicycling and transit. But in the last few years it has turned up the dial. For one, th ...
/www.streetfilms.org/utrecht-planning-for-people-not-for-cars/
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Touring Utrecht’s Disappearing Roadways with BicycleDutch
June 20, 2019As you may know I have been editing a monster Streetfilm on Utrecht debuting soon. It will likely be at least ten minutes in length! But I just hate when really, really good stuff gets left on the cutting room floor and I only get to see it. So a lot of t ...
/www.streetfilms.org/touring-utrechts-disappearing-roadways-with-bicycledutch/
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Go Fourth and Ride: Families Celebrate Brooklyn’s 4th Ave Protected Bike Lane
June 17, 2019Another Streetfilms Exclusive! The future is bright in Brooklyn. Children & families came out in a large bunch to ride the NYC DOT's first installed portion of the 4th Avenue Protected bike lane, a lane many community members have been asking nearly ...
/www.streetfilms.org/go-fourth-and-ride-families-celebrate-brooklyns-4th-ave-protected-bike-lane/
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Downtown DC Bus Lanes to the Rescue
June 13, 2019Like many large American cities, Washington is losing bus ridership as transit speeds slow and service falters. DC needs a bus turnaround, and you couldn’t pick a better place to start than H Street and I Street downtown. These are two of DC’s busiest ...
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TLC Gets Drivers on Bikes to Get a Different Perspective
June 6, 2019In a first event of its kind, NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission organized a bike ride thru the streets of East Williamsburg for some of its for-hire drivers so they could see what it is like to be a bicyclist on the streets of New York City. Even tho ...
/www.streetfilms.org/tlc-gets-drivers-on-bikes-to-get-a-different-perspective/
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Amsterdam’s Removing 10K Parking Spaces: See what that can look like!
June 2, 2019On my swing to The Netherlands to visit Utrecht, I planned on just trying to gather up enough footage and talk to a few people in Amsterdam regarding the transportation headlines they made a few months ago when they announced they would be removing from 10 ...
/www.streetfilms.org/amsterdams-removing-10k-parking-spaces-see-what-that-can-look-like/
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Utrecht’s Vredenburg is the busiest cycle path in all of The Netherlands!
May 29, 2019In Utrecht you'll see the most mesmerizing site: Vredenburg carries 33,000 cyclists on an average day! 60% of trips into the city are by bike. Private cars are banned from the road, all you will see is mega helpings of people on bikes, plus pedestria ...
/www.streetfilms.org/utrechts-vredenburg-is-the-busiest-cycle-path-in-all-of-the-netherlands/
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Life on a Dutch Woonerf (Living Street)
May 27, 2019When I posted I was headed to The Netherlands once again to visit (and for my first time to Utrecht,) as usual I got a lot of recommendations on what to look at. One of the first people to contact me was Rebecca Albrecht, who moved there with her husband P ...
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Inside the Situation Room: The Making of the War on Cars
May 16, 2019When my trio of friends Aaron Naparstek, Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon announced they were going to take on car culture in a podcast titled the "War on Cars" of course I was very intrigued. And after the first batch of episodes you know they had struck a ...
/www.streetfilms.org/inside-the-situation-room-the-making-of-the-war-on-cars/
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Portland’s Tilikum Crossing: A Bridge for People, Not For Cars
May 2, 2019In 2015, Portland, Oregon opened North Americas's longest car-free bridge The Tilikum Crossing, a bridge that allows travel for pedestrians, bikes and scooters as well as light rail, streetcars and buses! It's a superb transportation marvel, not o ...
/www.streetfilms.org/portlands-tilikum-crossing-a-bridge-for-people-not-for-cars/
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Street Transformations – Union Square (NYC)
April 16, 2019Going thru the archives found some really great "vintage" footage to put together yet another episode in the Street Transformations series, this one looking at the positive transformation of the roads that encircle Union Square. Rewind to 2005 when I wa ...
/www.streetfilms.org/street-transformations-union-square-nyc/
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Queens Fights to Keep their Car-Free Travers Park
March 31, 2019“No cars in parks.” That was one of the many signs carried by one of the hundreds of Jackson Heights residents and safe streets activists who rallied Saturday on 78th Street, which the city has long promised would be converted from a roadway into a ...
/www.streetfilms.org/queens-fights-to-keep-their-car-free-travers-park/
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Transit Advocates Ask Albany to #FixTheSubway!
March 19, 2019On Monday with Congestion Pricing still hanging in the balance and full funding of the MTA Capital Plan unknown, the Riders Alliance and advocates from many groups bussed up to Albany to talk to dozens of elected officials about the urgency of getting of g ...
/www.streetfilms.org/transit-advocates-ask-albany-to-fixthesubway/
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Yes, there are plenty of cars in Copenhagen!
March 17, 2019Today I got pissed and fired out a montage I never even considered doing prior.. Got into one of those Twitter arguments about building safe protected #bikenyc lanes. The person replied, "YOU just want to take away our cars & driving. Like they've d ...
/www.streetfilms.org/yes-there-are-plenty-of-cars-in-copenhagen/
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#AccessDenied: Christine
March 17, 2019PSA #2 in a series of 4 produced with TransitCenter. NYC has the least accessible subway in the country. Dustin wants you to know Governor Cuomo & the State Legislature can help parents and caregivers with children ride the subway by funding NYC Tr ...
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BIKELASH 2019: What’s the most ridiculous comment you’ve heard in opposition to a bike lane?
March 17, 2019I was honored to attend the National Bike Summit 2019 in Washington, D.C. hosted by the League of American Bicyclists. As usual with that large gaggle of bike riders all in one place it provides unique opportunities to ask pertinent questions about bicy ...
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See what this Cyclist is doing with $2 Bills to Advocate for Cycling
March 15, 2019Steven Hardy-Braz certainly wears many hats. Not only is he is a loyal Brompton folding bike rider, a school psychologist and an advocate (and interpreter for the deaf) but he also hands out two dollar bills to fellow cyclists, business owners and even goo ...
/www.streetfilms.org/see-what-this-cyclist-is-doing-with-2-bills-to-advocate-for-cycling/
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#AccessDenied: Dustin
March 14, 2019PSA #1 in a series of 4 produced with TransitCenter. NYC has the least accessible subway in the country. Dustin wants you to know Governor Cuomo & the State Legislature can help people with disabilities ride the subway by funding NYC Transit's Fast ...
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Streetfilms & Congestion Pricing Over the Years!
March 1, 2019Congestion Pricing looks to be coming to NYC in some form or other in the budget for NYS in 2020. Streetfilms has done so many videos with that as the topic and in so many ways, I decided it was time for a look back. And, oh boy, there is even more than I ...
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Laura Goodfellow: Transit-Oriented Runner
January 17, 2019One way we can help save the planet and cut down on motor vehicle use is to think creatively about common car trips that seem to be "automatic" or thought of as a necessity. Seattle's Laura Goodfellow is certainly doing that. So how do you keep the miles ...
/www.streetfilms.org/laura-goodfellow-transit-oriented-runner/
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Boston Area Bus Pilots Move Region Closer to BRT
December 5, 2018It was a momentous 2018 year for bus riders in greater Boston as municipalities around the region took bold steps to pilot elements of BRT in collaboration with the MBTA. Empowered by grants from the Barr Foundation, the municipally led regional effort sho ...
/www.streetfilms.org/boston-area-bus-pilots-move-region-closer-to-brt/
