Recent Streetsblog LA posts about StreetFilms

Copenhagen’s Climate-Friendly, Bike-Friendly Streets

By Elizabeth Press | Dec 14, 2009 | 3 Comments

Tens of thousands of people from nearly every nation on earth have descended on Copenhagen this month for the UN climate summit. As the delegates try to piece together a framework for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, they’re also absorbing lessons from one of the world’s leading cities in sustainable transportation. In Copenhagen, fully 37 percent […]

Streetfilms A.U.T.O. Lobbyist Visits Car-Free Times Square

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Nov 18, 2009 | No Comments

She’s back! The woman you love to hate (and hate not to love) Veronica Moss, a Washington, D.C. lobbyist for – ahem! – the Automobile User Trade Organization (A.U.T.O.) In this "chapter", she’s getting her first gander ever at the new pedestrian-friendly Times Square and she invited Streetfilms along to record her virgin journey. Naturally […]

Streetfilms: Shocker from New York. 200 Miles of New Bike Infrastructure Leads to More Biking

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Nov 10, 2009 | 8 Comments

This year the New York City Department of Transportation measured a 26 percent jump in commuter cycling. Coming on the heels of 2008’s unprecedented 35 percent growth, that puts the total two-year increase at a whopping 66 percent. Much of the growth in cycling can be attributed to the installation of 200 miles of bike […]

Streetfilm: Earl Blumenauer Visits New York

By Damien Newton | Nov 3, 2009 | 5 Comments

"The tide is turning," Transportation Alternatives Paul White exclaims towards the end of this most recent Streetfilm, "In fact, it’s already turned." White is celebrating the good work underway in New York City during a tour of the city’s bike facilities with the head of the Congressional Bike Caucus, Portland’s Earl Blumenauer. To their credit, […]

More Inspiration for Those Commenting on the Bike Plan

By Elizabeth Press | Oct 23, 2009 | 1 Comment

Bike lanes: In some cities people are literally dying to have them and some people go so far as to mark their own. Here in New York City, it feels like every time I get on my bike there is a new bike lane – sometimes on the left, sometimes buffered, and sometimes completely separated […]

Streetfilms: NYC Bike Lanes 101

By Elizabeth Press | Oct 19, 2009 | 2 Comments

Bike lanes: In some cities people are so desperate for them they’ll go so far as to mark their own. (Editor’s note: We know.) Here in New York City, it feels like every time I get on my bike there is a new bike lane — sometimes on the left, sometimes buffered, and sometimes completely […]

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