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By Clarence Eckerson

Streetfilms: Walk To School Day NYC

By Elizabeth Press | Oct 8, 2009 | No Comments

In New York City, about 80 percent of kids walk to school. This is amazingly high compared to the national average of about 13 percent. On October 7, over 40 countries celebrated International Walk to School Day. Livable Streets Education and the National Center for Safe Routes to School hosted a walk to school celebration […]

Streetfilms Shorties: NYPD Blockage on Manhattan Bridge Approach

By Brad Aaron | Oct 8, 2009 | 18 Comments

The debut Streetfilms Shortie caught an errant scooter blocking a bike lane. This time it’s New York’s Finest, camped out in the Manhattan Bridge bike path at Canal and Chrystie. A half-step forward, two steps back.

Streetfilms News: Podcasts, YouTube, Twitter and “Streetfilms Shorties”

By Robin Urban Smith | Sep 29, 2009 | 6 Comments

You’ve been asking for more ways to get your Streetfilms fix, and now you’ve got ’em. In addition to now posting all of our new films directly to YouTube, we’ve started podcasting on iTunes and Miro, making it easy to enjoy the latest and greatest from Streetfilms just about anywhere. Currently, our top 25 films […]

Streetfilms: The Sands Street Bike Path, a New Kind of Bridge Approach

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Sep 25, 2009 | 10 Comments

Chalk up more bikeway innovation to the folks at the NYC Department of Transportation. Nearly complete, the Sands Street approach to the Manhattan Bridge is now safer and more enjoyable thanks to a New York City first: a center-median, two-way protected bike path. The facility is a perfect solution to counter the dangers posed by […]

The Pedestrian Crush: It Doesn’t Have to Be Like This

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Sep 11, 2009 | 24 Comments

Although there is undoubtedly an amazing streets renaissance going on in NYC, there still remain places in dire need of improvement. Every workday, heavily-used areas like the blocks surrounding Penn Station are overwhelmed with pedestrians making their way home via buses, subways, the Long Island Railroad and Amtrak. The sidewalks are so clogged by this […]

Streetfilms: San Francisco’s Foggy Sunday Streets 2009

By Ben Fried | Sep 8, 2009 | 1 Comment

For many American cities, 2009 marks the second time around for car-free events modeled after Bogotá’s Ciclovía. In San Francisco, like New York, last year’s innovation is this year’s tradition, as you’ll see in this Streetfilm from John Hamilton: Despite a blanket of fog, the last San Francisco Sunday Streets of 2009 was, from all […]

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