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The Problem With the Metro Blue/Expo Light Rail Is… Cars
Blue and Expo trains slow to a crawl in downtown L.A. where they compete with cars. Wny not fix this problem when the Blue Line is improved next year?
July 18, 2018
How Seville Handles Where Bus Stops and Protected Bike Lanes Meet
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.
July 9, 2018
The Right to Walk
In many cities, simply getting anywhere by foot has become dangerous: thousands of pedestrians are killed on the world’s roads each week.
February 6, 2018
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 12, 2017
How to Build a Thriving, Equitable Bike-Share System
Bike-share has the capability to expand access to jobs and transit for communities in need of better transportation options -- but only if the system is set up and operated in an equitable way. Our latest collaboration with the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) examines how to build a thriving, equitable bike-share system.
August 3, 2016
Santa Monica’s Savvy Multimodalism Shows Moxie
Santa Monica certainly has a wave of transportation wonders taking flight. Like many cities they seem to be trying out a heaping of everything: bike share, a mix of bike lane treatments, a new rail line, neighborhood greenways, a pedestrian action plan (incorporating Vision Zero), a new people-friendly promenade/protected cycletrack where the Expo line terminates and of course they always have the hard-to-miss Big Blue Bus!
May 24, 2016
Five Eclectic Questions for Streetfighter Janette Sadik-Khan
Right before former New York City Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan set off on a multi-city book tour for Streetfight (along with co-author Seth Solomonow), I was able to get a few minutes to ask her five eclectic questions in Washington Square Park.
March 22, 2016
Peatónito: Protecting Pedestrians in the Crosswalk
Peatónito ("little pedestrian") might be the most beloved figure in the world of street safety. How can you not love a superhero who protects pedestrians from cars?! Since donning the cape and luchador mask three years ago, he's become a media sensation in Mexico. This week he's in New York City for Transportation Alternatives' Vision Zero for Cities 2016 conference, and Streetfilms was lucky enough to squeeze in this exclusive whirlwind walking tour of Brooklyn and Queens streets showing him in action.
March 9, 2016