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Streetfilms: Portland’s Festival Streets

By Aaron Naparstek | | 1 Comment
Portland, Oregon’s Festival StreetsRunning time: 3:39Download size: 13.39 MB The Portland Office of Transportation (PDOT) recently completed work on two Festival Streets, a new experiment that uses traffic calming and unique streetscape features to create a street that can easily be converted to public use on weekends or special events. In this film, Ellen Vanderslice, […]

Streetfilms Portland Week: Bicycle Boulevards

By Aaron Naparstek | | 11 Comments
Streetfilms’ Clarence Eckerson has been spending a lot of time in Portland learning about the politics, planning, engineering and culture behind that city’s phenomenal bike network. Working closely with Greg Raisman from Portland’s Dept. of Transportation Clarence produced a half hour documentary called "A Celebration of Portland Transportation." On Saturday, the film was shown on the big screen at Portland’s Bagdad […]

Streetfilms: The Defeat of the Mt. Hood Freeway

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The Defeat of the Mt. Hood Freeway A Clarence Eckerson Streetfilm Running time: 11:42, 28.21 MB, QuickTime In the midst of his reign has New York City’s master-builder, Robert Moses proposed building a network of massive expressways through the middle of Portland, Oregon’s inner-city core. One part of Moses’ plan was to replace a stretch […]

Billyburg bike bandits strike again

By Aaron Naparstek | | 5 Comments
On Sunday, the New York Times City section ran a story called "The Bicycle Thief: It’s Not Who You Think." It went like this: On Wednesday, 28-year-old graphic designer Miao Wang rode her bicycle 12 blocks from her apartment in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to the Bedford Avenue L subway station. She locked up, boarded her train […]