REBAR (www.rebargroup.org) sponsored this wonderful all-day reclaimation of parking spots all over the city. Many groups converted what was car storage to wonderful human uses.
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Advocates from Transporation Alternatives, The Project for Public Spaces, and The Open Planning Project join "Gridlock Sam" Schwartz and Enrique Penalosa to call for New York City to consider experimenting with some physica...
Every Sunday and holiday, every week, the City of Bogotá, Colombia closes down over 70 miles of roadways to cars and let people bike, walk, talk, exercise, picnic, sunbathe, I could go on and on. Just watch the video, it's amazing. This video comes to you via Streetfilms (www.streetfilms.org) from the Open Planning Project in NYC. Check out our ...
Berkeley, CA sports some of the best bicycling amenities anywhere in the U.S. They are called Bicycle Boulevards - and are essentially bicycle priority streets - where thru traffic is diverted from the neighborhood and traffic calming is plenty.
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David Byrne and Enrique Penalosa rode bikes to the Manhattan Boro President's Manhattan on the Move transportation conference.
Enrique has a nice smile, doesn't this just make you want to ride bikes?
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The new shared lane markings installed by DOT.
This is the short version of an interview The Open Planning Project conducted with Enrique Penalosa, former mayor of Bogata, Colombia who in just a few years transformed the city into a pedestrian and bicyclist paradise. Full version here at: http://www.nycsr.org/nyc/video.php
Montage of crosswalk incrusions by cars!
Portland's Office of Transportation (PDOT) goes the extra mile to accommodate cyclists. Rex Burkholder, the Metro Counsellor and founder of the the Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA), explains how to operate this bike signal placed at a potentially hazardous intersection for cyclists. The light gives riders a dedicated signal to maximize safety ...
From Manhattan on the Move: A Transportation Agenda for a Growing City
Come explore the world of Bus Rapid Transit aboard Bogota's Transmilenio!
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Mark Gorton, executive director of The Open Planning Project, shows how little space is afforded to pedestrians on some NYC streets and how unfair that is.
Streetfilms, Elizabeth Press visited Istanbul, Turkey and was struck immediately by the car traffic congestion. However, knowing that Istanbul hosted the World Carfree Conference last year, I set out to uncover what NYC can learn from a city with a population of 12 million plus people, 2.4 million cars and at least 100,000 new vehicles each year.
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The NYC DOT is talking away sidewalk space from pedestrians in the crowded uptown area around 96th street.
The Portland Office of Transportation (PDOT) recently completed work on two Festival Streets, a new experiment that uses traffic calming and unique streetscape features to create a street that can easily be converted to public use on weekends or special events. Here, Ellen Vanderslice (PDOT Project Management) and Lloyd D. Lindley (Urban Designer\/...
"Gridlock Sam" Schwartz speaks candidly about how the 1980 separated bike lanes in NYC came about and then met their untimely demise.
"Gridlock Sam" Schwartz served as NYC's Commissioner of Traffic from 1982-86 and is a former Chief Engineer/First Deputy Commissioner at the NYC DOT. He also writes a daily transportation column for the NY Daily New...
Parking Day NYC 2007. Watch as over 30 parking spots all over NYC are liberated from the automobile and reclaimed as space for people.
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In October 2006, Manhattan Boro President Scott Stringer hosted a transportation conference that was attended by nearly 500 community members and policy experts.
Edited by: Nick Whitaker
Watch as TOPP Executive Director Mark Gorton speaks with NY Times columnist Randy Cohen ("The Ethicist") talks about how transportation affects and comes into play with people's everday choices and morality.
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Van & Casey Neistat are film-making brothers from NYC who specialize in short subject videos. They are also cyclists, and as such, bikes have played an integral part in three of their more famous shorts: "Yogurt vs. Gasoline", "Holland Tunnel" and "Bike Thief," the last of which features the duo blatantly stealing bikes on the street with tools lik...
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The Open Planning Project founder Mark Gorton talks with "Gridlock Sam" Schwartz about about history of DOT in NYC, car-free Cental Park, and general transportation policy.
Ethan Kent of Project for Public Spaces talks with NYCSR about the need for public seating and the wonderful conversion of Willoughby Street in Brooklyn to a public space.
REBAR sponsored this wonderful all-day reclaimation of parking spots all over the city. Many groups converted what was car storage to wonderful human uses.
A great event celebrating music all over NYC. Dozens of acts all over on June 21st, the summer solstice.
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The NYC DOT has been quietly rolling out dozens of bike boxes all over Gotham. (*Update: Official number is 60!) It's really quite remarkable. But since the majority of riders seem not to know what they are or how to use them just yet, StreetFilms thought this would be a fun way to educate cyclists to love and cherish the Bike Box.
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Releasing the results of Transportation Alternatives funded study by Schaller Associates on crowded sidewalks in Soho.
Ride the wonderful bike boulevards of Berkeley, CA - a pleasant place for bicyclists to navigate safely.
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Intro 199 is a bill in the New York City Council that would require the NYC Department of Transportation to work to reduce driving as a matter of policy.
T.A.'s Paul Steely White, several elected officials, and Mary Beth Kelly voice their support for the measure.
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This is a short documentary made about Melbourne. It includes skating, St.Kilda and Melbourne in general. Interviews are undergone by a radio announcer, students and e55 bar manager.
Bicycle Boulevards in Portland are a thing of beauty, safety, and tranquility. They are also wonderful streets to live on. Mia Birk, former manager of City of Portland's Bicycle Program (1993-99), and Mark Lear of the Portland Office of Transportation explain a few of the many strategies employed to keep thru traffic off the boulevards and to make ...
