New 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/
The 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/
I 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/
Yesterday, 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/
I 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/
Well 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 ...
[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 ...
Witness 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/
SUPPLEMENTAL 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/
A 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. ...
Check 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/
Slow, 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/
Since 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/
In 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? ...
Where 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/
This 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 ...
Let'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 ...
Streetfilms 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/
Very 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 ...
Utrecht 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/
As 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/
Another 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/
Like 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 ...
In 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/
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 ...
/www.streetfilms.org/amsterdams-removing-10k-parking-spaces-see-what-that-can-look-like/
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 ...
/www.streetfilms.org/street-transformations-union-square-nyc/
“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 ...
/www.streetfilms.org/yes-there-are-plenty-of-cars-in-copenhagen/
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 ...
/www.streetfilms.org/there-are-now-100-streetfilms-featuring-protected-bike-lanes-for-your-advocacy/
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 ...
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