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Friday Video: The Utopia of London’s Low-Traffic Neighborhoods
Streetsfilms follows an urban planner around the “low-traffic neighborhood” of St. Peter’s in the London borough of Islington.
November 7, 2025
Friday Video: Drool Over This London School Street
That's cricket! Check out how London transformed a roadway around a big stadium into a play street.
October 17, 2025
Thursday’s Headlines: Across the Pond Edition
Transportation planners in London are using traffic filters to create mini town squares and low-traffic neighborhoods. Plus more news.
September 18, 2025
Friday Video: Cyclists, Check Out Your Next City
Streetfilms' Clarence Eckerson visited London earlier this summer to check in on the Big Smoke's cycling revolution.
July 11, 2025
Friday Video: Why NYC Needs ‘Low-Traffic Neighborhoods’
London's Church Street, like so many of our business corridors, was choking on cars — until the advent of the low-traffic neighborhood.
July 4, 2025
The Pedestrianization of Europe’s Busiest Shopping Street Offers a Great Lesson for U.S. Cities
Oxford Street is poised for a pedestrian-friendly makeover. What can the U.S. learn from their journey to get there?
December 3, 2024
Komanoff: What Was Left Unsaid to Congestion Pricing Opponents
Politicians can be diplomatic, but subject matter experts have a responsibility to say the quiet part out loud. Charles Komanoff learned that last Thursday at the latest congestion pricing gripefest.
February 20, 2024
Paging Kevin Roose! My Conversation with the Bing Chatbot Was Much Better than Yours!
Here's a story about why we no longer fear artificial intelligence, and, indeed, hope it will someday be running the country.
March 5, 2023
Cycling Through COVID-19: London
The COVID-19 pandemic brought about the most rapid transformation of the streetscape in Greater London in recent decades, resulting in a sharp rise in both walking and cycling. Here's how London is planning to build on that success post-quarantine.
October 12, 2022
NYC Can Learn from Car-Free School Streets in Paris, London and Tirana?!
Even the capital of Albania has more school streets per capita than New York City.
August 1, 2022
