Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Melbourne

Streetfilms Shorties: Why Don’t We Plant Trees in the Road?

By Ben Fried | Oct 20, 2009 | 13 Comments

Clarence recently dug up a few unused nuggets from last year’s junket to Melbourne, Australia. Watch and see how curbside space in residential neighborhoods has been repurposed for plantings that double as traffic calming treatments. Whatever red tape they had to hack through to plant trees in the roadbed, not just on the sidewalk, they’ve […]

Death of Cyclist Shocks Melbourne, Prompts Bus Ban

By Ken Coughlin | Sep 22, 2008 | 7 Comments

As I wrote in a post last week, the City of Melbourne, Australia, is working hard to make cycling easier and safer — but not quickly enough to save the life of one cyclist. The day after my post a 33-year-old Melbourne woman was killed when her wheels slipped on tram tracks on Melbourne’s main […]

Melbourne’s Complete Streets

By Ken Coughlin | Sep 17, 2008 | 6 Comments

In August, I had the pleasure of spending a little more than two weeks in Melbourne, Australia. Melbourne is the country’s second-largest city, with 3.8 million residents in the metropolitan area. Despite its size, from a walking and transportation standpoint (to say nothing of a coffee-drinking perspective), Melbourne almost defines the term "livable city." Trams […]

Streetfilm: A Pedestrian Paradise in Melbourne

By Brad Aaron | May 6, 2008 | 17 Comments

Streetfilms’ Clarence Eckerson recently made the journey to Melbourne, Australia, where he found a "new world city" redesigned for people-oriented development and mobility. Writes Clarence: Melbourne is simply wonderful. You can get lost in the nooks and crannies that permeate the city. As you walk you feel like free-flowing air with no impediments to your […]

StreetFilm: Traffic Calming Done Right in Melbourne

By Brad Aaron | Mar 17, 2008 | 10 Comments

Clarence Eckerson files this report (and StreetFilm) from Melbourne, Australia: This city really is wonderful. Art, happiness, liveliness, and good walking everywhere (between daily runs and walking I am averaging about 10 miles per day). The incredible thing is the TRAFFIC CALMING. Unless you are on a real highway no matter where you go there […]

Bikes Outsell Cars Down Under

By Ben Fried | Jan 15, 2008 | 10 Comments

Cyclists queue up on Brunswick Street in Melbourne. Australians bought more bikes than cars last year by a record 40 percent margin, according to a report released this week by the Cycling Promotion Fund. It was the eighth straight year bike sales topped auto sales, bolstering appeals to re-direct government spending toward bike-ped projects, such […]

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