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By Clarence Eckerson

Making the Case That Bikes Mean Business at the 2013 National Bike Summit

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Mar 14, 2013 | No Comments

How would you make the case to Congress to fund bike infrastructure? That was the question Streetfilms posed to attendees at this year’s National Bike Summit. Here’s a look at what they told us. You’ll also hear from one of the conference headliners, Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard, who has overseen some dramatic changes in his […]

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Voices From the National Women’s Bicycling Forum

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Mar 7, 2013 | No Comments

For the second year running, the Women’s Bicycling Forum kicked off the National Bike Summit in Washington, DC. About 300 people attended, and Streetfilms got to take their pulse on the state of bicycling for women and collect some suggestions about how to grow the number of women who ride. Here’s a sampling of what […]

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The Green Lane Project in New York: City to City Solutions

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jan 28, 2013 | No Comments

The Green Lane Project is a partnership of six U.S. cities working to implement next-generation protected bike lanes on their streets. This past fall, the Green Lane Project brought a few dozen transportation planners from those cities together in New York City for hands-on workshops and face-to-face peer exchanges to see the NYC Department of Transportation‘s […]

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Community-Based Bike Advocacy in Chinatown and the Lower East Side

By Elizabeth Press | Jan 15, 2013 | No Comments

Local Spokes is a coalition of nine organizations that joined up to engage low-income residents, people of color, immigrants, and young people in the Lower East Side and Chinatown to envision the future of bicycling in their communities. To understand the transportation needs of the neighborhoods, Local Spokes conducted an extensive survey in 2010 and […]

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How Complete Streets Came to East Harlem

By Elizabeth Press | Nov 27, 2012 | No Comments

This is the story about how East Harlem residents and street safety advocates — with leadership from Council Member Melissa Mark-Viverito — banded together to win complete streets on First and Second Avenues. After the city backtracked on a plan to build protected bike lanes and pedestrian refuges up to 125th Street on the East Side […]

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Post-Sandy, Queens Gets Back Into Multi-Modal Action

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Nov 2, 2012 | No Comments

NYC has suffered greatly post-Sandy. While we still have a long way to go in the recovery, people are starting to go back to work and venture out of their homes. Thursday marked the first day of modest subway restoration. It also saw the return of limited ferries, as well as a full MTA bus […]

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