Posts Tagged ‘streetfilms’

May is Bike Month, and I think this film from Streetfilms gives us both hope for the future and the limitations for change in the mainstream community if we are not changing the way streets are built. The family in this film wants to bike and walk most places and reduce their car use but [...]

Are rising gas prices and increased parking fees getting you down? There is a simple solution to your car driving woes that doesn’t involve waiting for biofuels or other technology to fix the problem. The simple bicycle. Burns no gas, keeps you healthy, parking is free, and you just might be helping to strengthen the [...]

It has been observed that if we really want to accelerate transportation cycling into mainstream culture, a focus on the needs of women is needed. Cycling in America is male dominated with a report 2:1 or more ratio of men to women choosing two wheels. In addition to expanding the pie, women have a larger [...]

StreetFilms recently shared this film from England where there is a concerted effort to reduce the vehicle speeds in residential streets to 20 MPH. Proponents argue that the slower speed makes the streets more welcoming to pedestrians and cyclists, reduces fatalities, and increases property values. They make a compelling case including some heart wrenching footage [...]

In June, cycling advocates from all over the world descended on Copenhagen for the Velo-City Global 2010 Conference. This offered a chance for folks to share what they’ve been doing to make transportation cycling safer and more accessible. It also provided Copenhagen as a venue for what can be done and how far a city [...]

Much is brewing with the Downtown Bicycle Boulevard, formerly know as the Nueces Bicycle Boulevard, and I will be writing more about that in the coming weeks. In the meantime, I wanted to share this great StreetFilms video from Washington DC where traffic engineers took a formerly 4 lane one-way road and gave it a [...]

Inspiration for the Copenhagenization the rest of the world With the Climate Change Conference, Copenhagen remains very much in the news especially on the bike front. As a city with a dominate car culture until the 1970s, Copenhagen pulled back from the gasoline induced sprawl most of the Western world embraced and now has 37% [...]

In a followup to yesterday’s post about creating a Nueces Street Bike Boulevard and next Wednesday’s design open house, StreetFilms just released this great video of what makes bike boulevards work and the idea of creating living streets, streets for people instead of streets for cars. Also included was a link to a guide book [...]

As part of a movement to reclaim public space from cars for people, PARKing Day was established a few years ago in New York City. All over the city, individuals take over on street parking spaces and set up seating and place space for anyone who wants to join in. StreetFilms captured this year’s NYC [...]

I did not get around to posting these on Friday but still wanted to share. The first video comes from last weekend’s Double Down Ladies’ Alleycat Race. The second is a great video from StreetsFilms critiquing various locking jobs on bikes on the streets of New York. The host appears to be the same bike [...]