Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Streetfilms

By Clarence Eckerson

Moving Beyond the Automobile: Parking Reform

By Elizabeth Press | Apr 27, 2011 | No Comments

In the tenth and final video in Streetfilms’ “Moving Beyond the Automobile” series, we are talking about parking reform. From doing away with mandatory parking minimums, to charging the right price for curbside parking, to converting on-street parking spots into parklets and bike corrals, cities are latching on to exciting new ideas to make more room for people […]

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Moving Beyond the Automobile: The Right Price for Parking

By Elizabeth Press | Apr 19, 2011 | No Comments

You might be shocked at how much traffic consists of drivers who have already arrived at their destination but find themselves cruising the streets, searching for an open parking spot. In some city neighborhoods, cruising makes up as much as 40 percent of all traffic. All this unnecessary traffic slows down buses, endangers cyclists and […]

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CicLAvia 2011: Angelenos (And Their Mayor) Take Back the Streets

By Rob Adams | Apr 19, 2011 | No Comments

Los Angeles’s CicLAvia is more than a seven and a half mile street party with a funny name. In a city so closely associated with cars and car culture, it’s one of the many signs that Los Angeles is changing and one’s status is not represented by the vehicle one owns. For the people that […]

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Who Rides the Lanes? 750 Turn Out for the Prospect Park West Family Ride

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Apr 11, 2011 | No Comments

On a grey, chilly Sunday, an estimated 750 people, many of them on training wheels and balance bikes, turned out to ride the Prospect Park West bike lane and show their support for the traffic-calming redesign. Since the two-way, separated bike path debuted last summer, it’s become indispensable for many parents who use it to […]

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Moving Beyond the Automobile: Traffic Calming

By Robin Urban Smith | Apr 6, 2011 | No Comments

What’s the most effective way to make city streets safer? As Chicago Alderman Mary Ann Smith told Streetfilms, “Signs don’t do the job, even having police officers on the corner does not do the job.” To prevent traffic injuries and deaths, you need to change how the street functions and make it feel slower for […]

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Guangzhou, China: Winning the Future With Bus Rapid Transit

By Elizabeth Press | Mar 31, 2011 | No Comments

Guangzhou is one of the fastest growing cities in the world. The economic hub of China’s southern coast, it has undergone three decades of rapid modernization, and until recently the city’s streets were on a trajectory to get completely overrun by traffic congestion and pollution. But Guangzhou has started to change course. Last year the […]

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