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San Fran Mayor Sets Ambitious Transportation Targets

By Aaron Naparstek | | 5 Comments
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom (pictured right) emphasized quality of life issues in his annual State of the City address last week. Most significant, Newsom put forward an ambitious transportation agenda and laid out specific targets for increasing bicycling and reducing automobile use: We will continue our long term planning to create a citywide bicycle network, […]

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 […]

Foreign Correspondent: Bogotá’s Lack of “Vibrancy”

By Aaron Naparstek | | 10 Comments
Before Enrique Peñalosa took over as Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, this thriving downtown plaza was a decrepit, crime-ridden, traffic-congested slum. Peñalosa cleared out the old shacks, banned private motor vehicles, launched the Transmilenio bus service, created the plaza, and returned this public space to his city’s people. Granted, the neighborhood pictured above clearly lacks the First […]

Rumor Confirmed

By Aaron Naparstek | | 1 Comment
A couple of different sources tell me that Bob Kiley is moving back to New York City to take a position with Parsons Brinckerhoff, the global engineering firm with a lead role in Partnership for New York City’s secretive, long-delayed congestion pricing study. Kiley is generally credited as being the architect of the system that […]
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