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By Clarence Eckerson

Touring Copenhagen’s Car-Free Bridges

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Aug 12, 2016 | No Comments

One of the things that makes Copenhagen great is the city is continually finding ways to make biking and walking better — like building car-free bridges. Bicycle Program Manager Marie Kastrup was very kind to take me on a tour of some of the bike and pedestrian bridges Copenhagen has constructed in the last decade. […]

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Biking on Amsterdam Avenue in NYC — Now More Like Biking in Amsterdam

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jun 16, 2016 | No Comments

Getting a protected bike lane on NYC’s Amsterdam Avenue was an epic struggle. This year, safe streets finally won. Amsterdam Avenue is a neighborhood street on the Upper West Side, but it was designed like a highway with several lanes of one-way motor vehicle traffic. Local residents campaigned for nearly ten years to repurpose one of […]

What Every Elected Should Say About Speed Cameras

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jun 10, 2016 | No Comments

When City Council member Jimmy Van Bramer talks about street safety and automated enforcement, the message is clear: speeding is always wrong, it’s dangerous, and anyone who gets a ticket needs to change their behavior. In NYC, you have to be driving 11 mph or more above the speed limit to trigger a camera ticket. With a $50 […]

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Santa Monica’s Savvy Multimodalism

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jun 3, 2016 | No Comments

Santa Monica is trying just about everything in its transportation system: bike-share, a mix of bike lane treatments, a new rail line, neighborhood greenways, a pedestrian action plan, a new promenade/protected bike lane where the Expo line terminates, and of course they have the hard-to-miss Big Blue Bus! In the last six months alone the city has launched Breeze […]

New Yorkers Tell Streetfilms Why They’re Biking More Than Ever

By Ben Fried | May 20, 2016 | 14 Comments

By every metric, today New Yorkers are biking more than ever. So to mark Bike to Work Day, Clarence Eckerson went over to the Transportation Alternatives commuter station by the Queensboro Bridge to ask people if they’re biking now more than five years ago, and why. Here’s what they told him. There’s a lot of […]

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