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More Bike Lanes for Los Angeles? One Cyclist Says, “No Thanks.”

By Jason Varone | Jun 1, 2007 | 16 Comments

In an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times, Will Campbell writes that bike lanes in Los Angeles are useless and dangerous. Campbell is an avid recreational and commuter cyclist who set a goal of riding 2,007 miles in L.A. this year. L.A., which averages 329 sunny, bike-friendly days a year, should be one of the […]

Transport for London: You’re Better Off by Bike

By Aaron Naparstek | May 31, 2007 | 3 Comments

A Thermoplastic bike stencil is the star of this short public service advertisement produced for London city government’s transportation agency.

Streetfilms: Turning Streets Into Community Spaces

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | May 30, 2007 | 11 Comments

Intersection RepairRunning time: 10:42 Have you ever dreamed of making the streets outside your home more livable, pedestrian-friendly, and community-oriented? City Repair in Portland, Oregon hosts an annual Village Building Convergence where hundreds of people come together to build diverse projects for the benefit of their communites and to take back their streets via a […]

LA.Streetsblog: The Joy of Poor Circulation

By Jason Varone | May 30, 2007 | 6 Comments

Every week, KCRW radio’s Marc Porter Zasada sets out to fathom Los Angeles on his show The Urban Man. This week he talks about neighborhoods, how fragile they are and how easily they can be lost to bad traffic engineering: On Monday you walked around the block for coffee and croissants, down where narrow streets […]

A Portland Neighborhood Reclaims its Streets

By Aaron Naparstek | May 25, 2007 | 2 Comments

Streetfilms‘ Clarence Eckerson was in Portland recently where he caught up with a neighborhood "Intersection Repair" project. New York City will experience a similar community-driven street reclamation project later this summer. A number of groups will be coming out to repair the Brooklyn intersection where a 4-year-old boy was run over and killed by the […]

London’s Trafalgar Square Goes Green… Literally.

By Jason Varone | May 24, 2007 | 5 Comments

A once traffic-heavy part of Trafalgar Square, now open only to pedestrians, just received a green, grassy face lift from London’s city government. Could New York City’s Times Square be next? (If not, we’d settle for three months-worth of car-free Central Park this summer.) The BBC reports: More than 2,000 sq m of turf has […]

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