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Clarence Eckerson Jr.

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Streetfilms Auteur Reveals How You, Too, Can Create ‘Bike Count’ Videos

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Apr 19, 2021 | No Comments
Clarence Eckerson Jr. — the Orson Welles of the streets — shares the secrets of making a great bike count video, and how such footage can help create change in your city.
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STREETFILMS Looks at Oakland’s Open Streets

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | May 4, 2020 | No Comments
We're not reinventing the wheel. We're just slowing it down. And here's what it might look like.
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Streetfilms Video Shows Why We Won’t Go Back

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Apr 14, 2020 | No Comments
Under normal circumstances, the world is upside-down: a small minority of selfish car owners force the rest of us to breathe toxic exhaust, get stuck in their traffic, be killed by their reckless use of steel cages, get terrified just to cross a street, etc. So let's change that.
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Streetfilms: Get a Load of How Abnormal New York Is Right Now

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Mar 24, 2020 | No Comments
Our Orson Welles of the street, Clarence Eckerson Jr., takes you on a journey through a livable city (albeit one we only get because of coronavirus).
STREETSBLOG NYC

Amsterdam Removed Parking — and the City Bloomed

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jun 3, 2019 | No Comments
The transformation of the neighborhood looks amazing
STREETFILMS

Experience the Joy of the Dutch Woonerf

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | May 29, 2019 | No Comments
When I arrived the street was full of neighbors and children and they wanted to talk to me about their lovely street. But this is not something exceptional as over 2 million Dutch people live on play/living streets. So take a gander but be warned: you will want the same thing for your block.
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Miami Shows How to Reclaim a Street from Cars

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Oct 22, 2018 | No Comments
For four days, on-street car storage was removed in favor of seating areas and mini-parks created by Avenue 3 Miami and supported by the Miami-Dade Transportation Quick-Build Program.
STREETFILMS

Barcelona’s Superblocks: Change the Grid, Change Your Neighborhood

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Aug 8, 2018 | No Comments
Without dangerous, noisy car traffic overrunning the streets, superblocks are full of life.
STREETFILMS

How Seville Handles Where Bus Stops and Protected Bike Lanes Meet

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jul 9, 2018 | No Comments
For cities considering protected bike lanes on streets that also have bus routes, this short video shows how Seville thought through the problem of making bus riders and cyclists visible to each other at bus stops.
STREETFILMS

The Right to Walk

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Feb 6, 2018 | No Comments
In many cities, simply getting anywhere by foot has become dangerous: thousands of pedestrians are killed on the world’s roads each week.
In Rotterdam, transit gets its own lanes, then cars, then bikes, with a median to keep them safe. Photo: Streetsblog/Rudick
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Rotterdam: A Post-War Central City Moves Beyond the Automobile

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Dec 12, 2017 | No Comments
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.
STREETFILMS

Scrambling Some Intersections in Riverside

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jun 7, 2017 | No Comments
Go Human is a community outreach and advertising campaign with the goals of reducing traffic collisions in Southern California and encouraging people to walk and bike more. Developed by the Southern California Association of Governments, Go Human implements open streets and pop up events throughout the Southern California region. Recently in Riverside, CA, the Go […]
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