Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Streetfilms

By Clarence Eckerson

Counting Bicyclists on the Manhattan Bridge!

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Oct 9, 2014 | No Comments

Since this has been an such amazing year for NYC bike commuting (after all Bicycling Magazine says we’re the #1 bike city, right?) two dear friends of Streetfilms (Steven O’Neill & Brooklyn Spoke‘s Doug Gordon) who frequently ride the Manhattan Bridge bike path joined me this morning to count some bicycles. We spent 20 minutes during the morning […]

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Mayor Bill Peduto Wants to “Leapfrog” Your City on Bicycling and Livability

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Sep 22, 2014 | No Comments

Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto is putting the rest of the United States on notice. His city is on the rise, and he fully intends to keep it that way. For the first time in over half a century, Pittsburgh is expecting an increase in residents as the number of people moving back to the city grows. Complete streets […]

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”Bikelash!” The Streetfilm

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Sep 16, 2014 | No Comments

Six months ago, Dr. Doug Gordon and Dr. Aaron Naparstek charmed audiences at the 2014 National Bike Summit with a great routine called “Moving Beyond the Bikelash,” sharing what they’ve learned from the pushback to New York City’s bike network expansion. So last week, while at the Pro-Walk Pro-Bike Pro-Place conference, I thought it would be interesting to ask advocates from […]

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Need to Add a Bike Lane to a Bridge? Experiment Like Pittsburgh Did

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Sep 12, 2014 | No Comments

The Pro Walk Pro Bike Pro Place 2014 conference took place this week in Pittsburgh. Even though the Andy Warhol Bridge already has a nice shared bike-ped path on it, for one week the city decided to put bike lanes on its roadway. It’s the simplest design you can imagine, just two rows of small traffic barriers and a little […]

Streetfilms: Talking Traffic Safety at the Home of Vision Zero

By Brad Aaron | Aug 8, 2014 | 5 Comments

Clarence Eckerson shot this great interview with Mary Beth Kelly of Families for Safe Streets and Claes Tingvall, director of traffic safety for the Swedish Transport Administration. On Queen Street in Stockholm, a car-free plaza once “choked” with vehicle traffic, and standing within sight of the parliament building where Vision Zero took shape in the […]

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Copenhagen’s Latest Cycling Innovations

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Aug 5, 2014 | No Comments

Copenhagen just keeps finding new ways to make it easier and more convenient to bike. Recently I had the chance to take a tour with Mikael Colville-Andersen of Copenhagenize and see some of the innovations that have changed the city’s streets since I was there four years ago. First off, if you’ve seen my 2010 […]

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