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Streetfilms: Scenes From Summer Streets

By Stephen Miller | Aug 12, 2013 | 5 Comments

Saturday was the second of three Summer Streets this August, with car-free streets along Park Avenue and Lafayette Street from 72nd Street to the Brooklyn Bridge. Couldn’t make it yourself? Clarence Eckerson Jr. from Streetfilms, as always, has got you covered. Clarence says he was particularly struck by how many people pedaled the route using […]

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Strong Towns’ Chuck Marohn: Why Suburban Growth Is a Ponzi Scheme

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jul 18, 2013 | No Comments

Chuck Marohn cofounded the non-profit Strong Towns in 2009. Since then he has steadily built an audience for his message about the financial folly of car-centric planning and growth. The suburban development pattern that has prevailed since the end of World War II has resulted in what Marohn calls “the growth Ponzi scheme” — a system that […]

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Some Things You Might See While In Amsterdam

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jul 15, 2013 | No Comments

I’m currently on a European junket, and ahead of the more serious Streetfilms that will come out of it, I thought it would be prudent to put up some everyday street scenes of bicycling in Amsterdam. Enjoy! Make sure to check back for more extensive coverage in coming weeks.

Flashback Friday: ReMOOOve the Barricades!

By Ben Fried | Jul 12, 2013 | 11 Comments

Clarence has been unearthing old footage from the Streetfilms vault this summer in preparation for Transportation Alternatives’ 40th anniversary bash. This week’s installment takes us back to the end of 1997, when the Giuliani administration and NYPD erected pedestrian barricades in Midtown, preventing people from crossing major avenues to make way for turning traffic. TA’s […]

Flashback Friday: TA’s 1997 Car-Free Park/Earth Day Ride (With Chants!)

By Ben Fried | Jul 5, 2013 | 7 Comments

After news broke that the east and west drives of Central Park will be car-free for two months this summer, this seemed like a fitting installment from the vault of Clarence Eckerson this week: The Transportation Alternatives 1997 Earth Day ride, which held up the goal of a car-free park Central Park as a symbol […]

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Salt Lake City: A Red State Capital Builds Ambitious Transit

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jul 2, 2013 | No Comments

According to Congress for New Urbanism President John Norquist, the Salt Lake City area has the fastest growing rail system in America. And as Streetsblog’s Angie Schmitt pointed out last month, “It’s the only city in the country building light rail, bus rapid transit, streetcars and commuter rail at the same time.” Since the late 1990s, SLC […]

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