Clarence Eckerson Jr.
Clarence Eckerson Jr. is the Director of Video Production for NYCSR's StreetFilms and producer of bikeTV. He loves the color purple, chocolate chip cookies, and enjoys walking, biking, and taking transit. He has never owned a driver's license.
Recent Posts
Moving Beyond the Automobile: Congestion Pricing
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In the fifth chapter of “Moving Beyond the Automobile,” we demystify the concept of congestion pricing in just five short minutes. Here you’ll learn why putting a price on scarce road space makes economic sense and how it benefits many different modes of surface transportation. In London, which successfully implemented congestion pricing in 2003, drivers […]
Cycle Tracks, “Floating Parking” and Bike Buffer Zones
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While we were out videotaping for another Streetfilm, Gary Toth, the director of transportation initiatives with Project for Public Spaces (his resume includes 34 years of management experience at NJDOT), took a moment to give a short explanation on what “floating parking” is, why using it is a very smart budgetary decision by the NYCDOT, and […]
The Case for Bike Racks on NYC Buses
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Over the last ten years (or more) just about every major city in the U.S. has added bike-carrying capacity to its buses. While cities like Chicago, Las Vegas, Kansas City, Seattle, Philadelphia, and San Francisco can boast 100 percent of their bus fleets sporting bike racks, New York comes in at zero percent — the […]
Moving Beyond the Automobile: Transit-Oriented Development
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For the first chapter in Streetfilms’ Moving Beyond the Automobile series, we’re taking a look at transit-oriented development, more commonly known by the acronym TOD. Streetfilms headquarters is a short train ride from some great TOD success stories taking shape along a stretch of New Jersey’s Hudson River coast. Across the river from NYC, transit-oriented […]
On Bicycle Coverage and Media Bias
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Since I’ve been producing Streetfilms (at last count, 196 of them), rarely do I come across work in our field that I find monumentally enlightening, savvy, or high-caliber. But the latest blog post from David Hembrow’s “A View from the Cycle Path…” contains an embedded video produced by Mark Wagenbuur that left me in awe. […]
Trailer: Moving Beyond the Automobile
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Here at Streetfilms we are excited to officially announce the debut of our ten-part series “Moving Beyond the Automobile.” Each Tuesday over the next ten weeks, tune in to Streetfilms — we’ll be posting a new chapter about smart and proven strategies to reduce traffic and improve street safety for all users. We’ll be tackling […]
Snowy Neckdowns: Nature’s Traffic-Calming
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As you may recall, many years ago I shot a Streetfilm taking about what winter weather can teach us. In many ways the snow acts like tracing paper on our streets and records people’s movements: at each intersection, the spots where the snow piles up can show us where people drive and walk. It’s a […]
Livable, Bikeable Pittsburgh: The Streetfilms Tour
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During a recent two-day swing through the Steel City, Streetfilms learned that, like many other metro areas across the country, Pittsburgh has a growing movement for better bicycling and more livable streets. We made this travelogue to show some of the ways the momentum is building. Among the cool things you’ll see… A newly renovated […]
Marin County Opens New Tunnel For Biking, Walking and Rolling
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Hundreds of cyclists and pedestrians — and more than a few elected officials — turned out on Friday afternoon last week to cut the ribbon on an impressive piece of infrastructure for human-powered travel — the long-awaited Cal Park Tunnel in Marin County, California. The project has been talked about since the late 1970s and […]
Last Chance! Get Your Tickets for Streetfilms: A Reel Celebration
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We’re now less than a week away from our Streetfilms fundraiser and we want YOU to come enjoy a night of celebration and fun. But you’ll need to act quickly – we only have about 25 tickets still available starting at $50 apiece. All the deets you need to know: Tuesday, November 16th from 6:30 […]
Portland’s Bike Boulevards Become Neighborhood Greenways
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Transportation planners in Portland, Oregon are taking their famous bicycle boulevards to the next level. By adding more routes and stepping up the traffic calming treatments, the city is not only making these streets more attractive and usable for cyclists, but also for pedestrians, runners, children, and anyone else who gets around under their own […]
Support Streetfilms: Come to Our Fall Fundraiser on November 16
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Streetfilms has been showcasing best practices in the livable streets world for nearly four years, producing over 300 informative films on topics such as physically-separated bike lanes, bus rapid transit, pedestrian plazas, complete streets, street transformations, and ciclovias in dozens of cities and countries. Our films have been watched over 3 million times and have been […]