Streetfilms: Car-Free Vancouver Day

Streetfilms’ guest correspondent Frank Lopez leads this tour of Vancouver’s Car-Free Day, which opens up streets in four neighborhoods for community festivals. Dancing on the pavement, lunching on the street, and mid-block lucha libre wrestling matches ensue.

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Touring Copenhagen’s Car-Free Bridges

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. |
One of the things that makes Copenhagen great is the city is continually finding ways to make biking and walking better — like building car-free bridges. Bicycle Program Manager Marie Kastrup was very kind to take me on a tour of some of the bike and pedestrian bridges Copenhagen has constructed in the last decade. […]

Streetfilms: Scenes From Summer Streets

By Stephen Miller |
Saturday was the second of three Summer Streets this August, with car-free streets along Park Avenue and Lafayette Street from 72nd Street to the Brooklyn Bridge. Couldn’t make it yourself? Clarence Eckerson Jr. from Streetfilms, as always, has got you covered. Clarence says he was particularly struck by how many people pedaled the route using […]

Streetfilms: Chicago’s Sunday Parkways

By Ben Fried |
Streetfilms contributor Nicholas Whitaker files this report from Chicago, which put on a pair of major car-free events last month called Sunday Parkways. Recently Streetfilms has also covered car-free events in New York, Portland and San Francisco, and like the Summer Streets video, this one features a guest turn from Gil Peñalosa, one of the […]
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Vancouver Gives Cyclists a Lane on the Burrard Bridge

By Ben Fried |
Streetfilms’ Vancouver correspondent Frank Lopez reports on a development that will sow envy in the heart of anyone who walks or bikes over the narrow, congested paths of the Brooklyn and Pulaski bridges: It’s been 15 years since Vancouver residents started petitioning for a bike lane on one of the bridges that connects to downtown. […]

Here They Are — Your Car-Free Street Scenes From Marathon Day

By Ben Fried |
If you can get to the course early enough, marathon Sunday lets you roam freely, for one morning, on some of New York’s most atrocious traffic sewers. Here’s a look at how some people made the most of the car-free time. #marathonfunday Kids riding on Flatbush! pic.twitter.com/RSUtGAFJNr — Hilda Cohen (@HildaBikes) November 2, 2014 Fourth […]

Times Square Then and Now: A Streetfilms Retrospective

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. |
Mayor Bloomberg is expected to announce his verdict on Times Square’s new pedestrian spaces very soon. Will the changes be permanent? This morning Bloomberg told radio host John Gambling that we’ll find out sometime next week. In the meantime, it seems like the media has decided to fixate on rumors that Midtown traffic speeds may […]