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By Clarence Eckerson

Streetfilms: After Another Tragedy, Park Slope Residents Demand Safe Streets

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Mar 6, 2018 | 2 Comments

Over 100 New Yorkers turned out this morning for an impromptu rally to demand that Mayor de Blasio take action to rein in reckless driving on Ninth Street in Park Slope.

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Marching With a Message: Fix the Missing Link in Queens’ Most Important Bike Route

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Mar 5, 2018 | No Comments

There's a DOT plan on the table to upgrade Skillman and 43rd with protected bike lanes, but momentum has stalled since it was first presented last fall.

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Ride New Orleans: Setting the Transit Agenda

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Feb 5, 2018 | No Comments

Ride New Orleans formed in 2009 out of a growing sense that the average New Orleanian wasn't being prioritized by the RTA. In just a few short years, the group is already setting the transit agenda.

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The Right to Walk

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jan 30, 2018 | No Comments

Choosing to move on foot - to work, school, or the market - should be safe and easy for urban residents. Yet city streets are increasingly being built for high-speed, personal vehicles.

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The Netherlands Bike Montage Megamix

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jan 8, 2018 | No Comments

Over the past five years, I've visited several great cities for cycling in the Netherlands. One thing you'll notice if you go to places like Amsterdam, Groningen, Rotterdam, Utrecht, and Nijmegen is that there are a lot of kids biking.

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Unsustainable: Traffic 2018

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Dec 19, 2017 | No Comments

New York is facing its most serious transportation challenge in decades. Subway reliability is way down, and the bus system is shedding riders at an alarming rate. And because transit is so unreliable, New York is accommodating growth in cars, in the form of the tens of thousands of Uber and Lyft vehicles we now find on our streets each day.

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