The Right to Walk
Choosing to move on foot - to work, school, or the market - should be safe and easy for urban residents. Yet city streets are increasingly being built for high-speed, personal vehicles.
January 30, 2018
The Netherlands Bike Montage Megamix
Over the past five years, I've visited several great cities for cycling in the Netherlands. One thing you'll notice if you go to places like Amsterdam, Groningen, Rotterdam, Utrecht, and Nijmegen is that there are a lot of kids biking.
January 8, 2018
Unsustainable: Traffic 2018
New York is facing its most serious transportation challenge in decades. Subway reliability is way down, and the bus system is shedding riders at an alarming rate. And because transit is so unreliable, New York is accommodating growth in cars, in the form of the tens of thousands of Uber and Lyft vehicles we now find on our streets each day.
December 19, 2017
Rotterdam: A Post-War Central City Moves Beyond the Automobile
Even though much of central Rotterdam was built during the era of mass motoring, the city is taking major steps to shift away from cars and toward transit, biking, and walking.
December 11, 2017
London Cycling Works: How Savvy Campaigning Got 180 Employers to Support Bike Lanes
In 2014, there was an intense bikelash in London in reaction to groundbreaking, high-quality protected bike lanes in the city center. London CyclingWorks played a critical role in countering this pushback, gathering endorsements of the new bike infrastructure from a wide range of businesses in central London.
December 6, 2017
Gawk at the Great New Bike Access to the Williamsburg Bridge From Brooklyn
What's great is not only the safety of the protected lanes, but that the city took into account all the ways people on bikes approach the bridge.
November 22, 2017
The Northern Boulevard Protected Bike Lane Celebration Ride
Despite the chill, nearly 75 people turned out Sunday to celebrate the new protected bike lane on Northern Boulevard connecting to the popular path known as Joe Michaels Mile in Eastern Queens.
November 13, 2017
Parking Day Meets the 14th Street PeopleWay!
On Parking Day, a few dozen TransAlt volunteers were out collecting signatures and educating people about why 14th Street needs the PeopleWay. Streetfilms was there to document the occasion.
September 18, 2017
The New Bus Campaigners
Transit advocates think bus service is declining because of longstanding policy neglect, and that something can and ought to be done about it. They’re pushing elected officials and transit agencies to apply changes like bus lanes, all-door boarding and traffic signal priority.
September 13, 2017
Shared Space, Broadway’s Car-Free Garden, and Other Summer Highlights From NYC DOT
NYC DOT is on a roll this summer as construction season brings a slew of new projects to improve walking and biking, including some design treatments the city is trying out for the first time. These short videos are my way of saying thanks.
August 18, 2017
