On 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 ...
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In 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/
When 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 ...
When 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/
In 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/
Going 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 ...
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“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/
On 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/
Today 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 ...
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PSA #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 ...
I 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 ...
Steven 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/
PSA #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 ...
Congestion 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 ...
One 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/
It 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/
In 2014 I made a short called "The Green Benefits of NYC Protected Bike Lanes" (vimeo.com/109772951) which was a minor hit. I recorded a narration talking about my experience watching how on streets that had curbside bike lanes with tree pit protection tha ...
[caption id="attachment_59754" align="aligncenter" width="500"] "Protected Bike Lane Bonanza" Screenshot from Vimeo (Click to go there!)[/caption] Well congratulations to us! We've now posted our 100th Streetfilm that features elements, designs or pilot ...
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Transit in Miami is in shambles. Bus service is increasingly slow and unreliable and bus ridership is plunging in response. While use of Miami-Dade County’s lone rapid rail line has not fallen as drastically, transit officials are barely able to track th ...
For the latest in our Street Transformations series (for others see here: Street Transformations) we check out the dramatic before and afters of the Sunnyside protected bike lanes installed by NYC DOT at the end of Summer 2018. The links complete a missin ...
/www.streetfilms.org/street-transformations-sunnyside-lanes-skillman-43rd-avenues/
In the midst of a record number of pilots in Massachusetts showcasing how bus service can be improved to actually provide rapid transit, two advocates fighting to bring transport justice sit down to swap wisdom about what it takes to transform transporta ...
/www.streetfilms.org/sustainable-transport-superheroes-swap-notes/
Following the installation of protected bike lanes in the Sunnyside neighborhood of Queens, neighbors decided to hold a family bike ride to celebrate. Over 60 folks and many children came out to ride a three mile circuit on a very cold, blustery November S ...
Los Angeles is in the midst of building an unprecedented number of rail transit projects. Some are slated for potentially high ridership parts of LA’s urban core. Others are more dubious. Today, transit use is down. Bus ridership is falling sharply. R ...
/www.streetfilms.org/los-angeles-the-great-american-transit-experiment/
The Bergen Avenue protected bikeway is a temporary facility, implemented with removable materials to demonstrate to Jersey City residents and businesses how protected bike lanes could be implemented in Jersey City. The protected lane is Jersey City's first ...
/www.streetfilms.org/jersey-city-experiments-with-its-first-protected-bike-lane/
After years of incremental but frustratingly slow progress, London is making huge strides on creating a safe, all-ages bike network. The big breakthrough was the city's launch of physically protected "bicycle superhighways" that separate cyclists from mot ...
/www.streetfilms.org/cycling-londons-bicycle-super-highways/
Two years ago, Barcelona announced it would transform chunks of its street grid to prioritize people over cars. The method: superblocks. When American planners think of superblocks, they probably think of big parcels that disrupt the pedestrian network ...
“If you’re looking for the place that shows the failure of New York City to have any sort of traffic management policy, this is the spot.” That’s Doug Gordon, a.k.a. Brooklyn Spoke, who recently joined Streetfilms’ Clarence Eckerson Jr. in Low ...
/www.streetfilms.org/clusterfck-on-varick-street-the-case-for-congestion-pricing/
When I take a trip (especially to Europe) I usually plan for a specific Streetfilm to make in each city. For example, here were my identified goals for my recent 8-day loop thru Barcelona (Super Blocks), Seville (History of Bike Lanes) and London (their ...
/www.streetfilms.org/binge-on-streetfilms-shortsexcerpts-from-barcelona-seville-london/
As recently as 2006, almost no one in Seville got around by bicycle. The city's bike network was nearly non-existent. When the leaders of this city of 700,000 in Andalusia decided to make bicycling a viable transportation option, they didn't mess around ...
If you're jonesing for more Seville on top of the full-length Streetfilm about the city's rapidly growing protected bike lane network, here's a segment for you. For cities considering protected bike lanes on streets that also have bus routes, this s ...
/www.streetfilms.org/how-seville-handles-where-bus-stops-protected-bike-lanes-meet/
On assignment in London to cover bicycle superhighways, I once again had the pleasure of a tour with the charming and insightful Iain Simmons, assistant director of city transportation for the City of London. He took me around to several recent projects, ...
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Each weekday, half a dozen bus routes carrying 19,000 riders travel the 1.2-mile stretch of Washington Street to the Forest Hill Orange Line Station. Most people on the street at rush hour are riding in buses. Until May, the bus commute was usually slow an ...
/www.streetfilms.org/a-street-is-a-terrible-thing-to-waste-bostons-newest-bus-lane/
Well over 2,000 people came out on World Bike Day for Jersey City's ninth annual Ward Tour, a 16-mile ride that visits all six wards in the city, according to ride organizer Bike JC. Big things are afoot in Jersey City. As Mayor Steven Fulop (who ...
/www.streetfilms.org/9th-annual-bike-jc-ward-tour-draws-nearly-3000-riders/
Protected bike lanes are becoming less rare in many U.S. cities and I got to ride a fine new one in the City of Boston. Called the Connect Historic Boston Bike Trail, it is the beginning segment - about two miles so far - of a longer loop that plans to ci ...
/www.streetfilms.org/ride-the-new-connect-historic-boston-bike-trail/
For about eight more weeks, drivers can still use parts of the Central Park loop as a traffic shortcut. Then, on June 27, that’s it, the exhaust spewers need to clear out. Would it be nice to enjoy a car-free park a little sooner, during these mild s ...
Sidewalks around Penn Station are not wide enough to handle the number of people who walk in the area. That was the case in 2009, when Streetfilms’ Clarence Eckerson and Streetsblog Publisher Mark Gorton surveyed the pedestrian crush at 34th Street and S ...
/www.streetfilms.org/10-years-later-the-pedestrian-crush-on-nycs-34th-street-is-still-chaos/
Can you really blame pedestrians on 8th Avenue? For a few hours at rush hour in the am/pm the protected bike lane is filled with walkers since they are forced off the dense sidewalks due to the astronomical number of commuters and residents on them. ...
/www.streetfilms.org/no-room-for-peds-on-nycs-8th-ave-so-they-walk-in-protected-bike-lane/
On Monday, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams hosted his fourth annual Bike-to-Work Ride, taking off from Prospect Park and ending at Borough Hall in Downtown Brooklyn. Besides having fun on a beautiful day, the goal was to show streets that need ...
/www.streetfilms.org/2018-bike-to-work-ride-with-brooklyn-bp-eric-adams/
Back in Summer 2004, I made a great film with Transportation Alternatives, one that kinda helped launch my career into Streetfilms. It was called "The Case for a Car-Free Central Park" and featured footage from dozens of leaders, advocates and park users ...
/www.streetfilms.org/case-for-car-free-central-park-2018-re-edit/
It's now a little less than a year from the imminent 15-month closure of the L train which will impact at least a 1/4 million daily subway riders. So Transportation Alternatives kicked off their first of many "bike train" rides in order to educate, cajole ...
/www.streetfilms.org/a-year-from-l-train-shutdown-transalt-begins-series-of-bike-trains/
As you may have heard via Twitter, tomorrow (Thursday, April 12th) I will be covering my 100th event/presser/ride/advocacy push featuring Transportation Alternatives when I join the BikeTrain Kickoff Rally, which will show Manhattan/Brooklyn/Queens bike co ...
/www.streetfilms.org/my-favorite-five-streetfilms-featuring-transportation-alternatives/
Last week, I happened to be on the other side of the Hudson, cruising the New Jersey waterfront on a Citi Bike, going up from Jersey City to Hoboken and Weehawken, then back. On the return leg of my trip, I just couldn't believe how comfortable the stre ...
/www.streetfilms.org/hoboken-prioritizes-intersection-visibility-over-car-parking/
Earlier this week, NYC DOT announced a pilot program to let cyclists use the same head start as pedestrians at 50 intersections with “leading pedestrian intervals” or LPIs, which give people a few seconds to establish themselves in the crosswalk before ...
/www.streetfilms.org/at-some-red-lights-in-nyc-cyclists-now-get-head-start/
Braving the brisk cold of a March morning, hundreds of people turned out Sunday for the Women's Ride on Queens Boulevard. The event was both a celebration of women's role in bike advocacy and a call to action. About a quarter to a third of cyclists on NY ...
/www.streetfilms.org/hundreds-of-cyclists-turn-out-for-womens-ride-on-queens-boulevard/
https://youtu.be/iKEYqqksLpg As many of you know, here in New York City there was an overwhelming reaction to the horrible tragedy in Park Slope, Brooklyn, where two young children were killed by a red-light running driver. Numerous events held, includi ...
/www.streetfilms.org/listen-to-these-new-yorkers-ideas-of-what-we-should-do-next-for-safe-streets/
Last night hundreds of New Yorkers marched in Brooklyn for safer streets. In the lead were kids, mourning the loss of other kids — 13-year-old Kevin Flores, 4-year-old Abigail Blumenstein, and 20-month old Joshua Lew were killed by motorists in the firs ...
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Over 100 New Yorkers turned out this morning for an impromptu rally to demand that Mayor de Blasio take action to rein in reckless driving on Ninth Street in Park Slope, where yesterday a motorist ran a red light, killed two small children and injured thei ...
/www.streetfilms.org/after-another-tragedy-park-slope-residents-demand-safe-streets/
The St. Pats for All Parade is a wonderful, upbeat celebration of inclusion on Skillman Avenue in Woodside, Queens. The Queens Committee of Transportation Alternatives has participated since the parade's inception, and this year, they marched to renew the ...
/www.streetfilms.org/marching-with-a-message-protected-bike-lanes-needed-in-sunnyside/
Since Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, the city's transit recovery has been sluggish and asymmetrical. The New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (RTA) made the decision to prioritize streetcar restoration and expansion at the expense of bus serv ...
/www.streetfilms.org/ride-new-orleans-setting-the-transit-agenda/
Every person has the right to walk. Choosing to move on foot -- to work, school, or the market -- should be safe and easy for urban residents. Yet city streets are increasingly being built for high-speed, personal vehicles, with hazardous intersections a ...
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