Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Berkeley

Vision Zero Cities Op-Ed: How Berkeley Is De-Policing Traffic Enforcement

By Rigel Robinson | Oct 16, 2021 | No Comments

Consistent with Vision Zero principles, we want to ensure all street users feel and are safe from harm while in public space. To achieve this vision we have a duty to work to end police violence associated with traffic enforcement.

Streetfilms: The Case for Bicycle Boulevards in NYC

By Elizabeth Press | Dec 3, 2009 | 20 Comments

We’ve seen lots of new, innovative bikeway designs appear on New York City streets over the past few years. But there’s one very promising concept we haven’t seen — bicycle boulevards. Bicycle boulevard design uses a variety of techniques to create low-traffic, low-speed streets where cyclists mix comfortably with cars. They’re very popular in Portland […]

DOT Rolls Out the New Lower Manhattan Crosstown Bike Route

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 8, 2007 | 6 Comments

The street re-surfacing men and machinery were out in force in Soho last night. Houston Street Bike Safety Initiative Director Ian Dutton snapped this photo on Prince Street. Once the street is repaved, the Department of Transportation will stripe the hotly debated Prince and Bleecker Street bike lanes. Lower Manhattan’s newest east-west bike route is […]

StreetFilms: Berkeley’s Bikestation

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | May 8, 2007 | 16 Comments

This is the first of three videos StreetFilms will be posting in the coming week about innovative bike parking ideas in the California East Bay Area. Dave Campbell of the Bicycle-Friendly Berkeley Coalition gives a quick tour of a Bikestation facility in Berkeley — a bicycles actually have their own parking attendant. In a much […]

A CRISPier Way to Build NYC’s 200+ Miles of New Bike Lanes?

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 21, 2006 | 17 Comments

See the world’s first music video about shared-lane bike markings by Streetfilms Clarence Eckerson. At times over the last two and a half years I have done quite a bit of organizing and advocacy work to help get new bicycle lanes and shared-lane markings installed on Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn, my neighborhood’s main bike route. Though […]

Another Model: Berkeley’s Bicycle Boulevard Network

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 27, 2006 | 12 Comments

Yesterday I showed some photos of the "Share the Road" Bike Route signs that were recently installed on Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn and that sparked an interesting discussion on different possible ways to design and build on-street bike paths. This summer I was in Berkeley, California for a friend’s wedding. NYCSR filmmaker Clarence Eckerson was […]