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Eyes on the Street: Portland Bike Boxes

By Brad Aaron | | 8 Comments
  Not only are Portland, Oregon’s new bike boxes to be accompanied by a motorist safety campaign, they’re also making them hard for drivers to miss at street level. Note the "Get Behind It" sign to the right. Compare the Portland version to a New York bike box:   Could this call for a green […]

StreetFilm: Traffic Calming Done Right in Melbourne

By Brad Aaron | | 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 […]

DC to Devote Parking Fees to Livable Streets

By John Kaehny | | 3 Comments
  In a first for a big east coast city, Washington, DC, is putting the ideas of celebrated parking reformer Don Shoup to work. Spurred by concerns over game day traffic surges caused by the opening of a new baseball stadium, the city council recently created two performance parking pilot project zones. The most important […]

In Istanbul, a Burgeoning Livable Streets Movement

By Brad Aaron | | 2 Comments
StreetFilms’ Elizabeth Press traveled to Istanbul, Turkey recently, and put together this vid of horrendous traffic conditions and initiatives to take back the streets. Featured in the film is Kevser Üstündag, professor of architecture and World Carfree Network advisor, who discusses transit and car-free Sundays. At 1:40, check out Istiklal Caddesi, an avenue that was […]

Bike Network 2.0

By Ben Fried | | 17 Comments
One of the more intriguing stories at yesterday’s National Bike Summit in Washington D.C. came from Nicole Freedman, who was appointed Boston’s first bike czar last September. A planner and one-time professional cyclist, Freedman was charged with building a bike network out of nothing, in a city routinely ranked among the nation’s worst for bicycling, […]

The Vicious Cycle of Anti-Cyclist Bias

By Ben Fried | | 16 Comments
From the National Bike Summit: At a panel on cyclists’ rights, Bob Mionske, a Portland, Oregon attorney and founder of Bicycle Law, offered a cogent explanation of the obstacles cyclists face when it comes to public perception, police enforcement, and holding motorists accountable for injuring and killing cyclists. “Anti-cyclist bias is endemic in the police, […]
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