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Streetfilms con subtítulos: Lessons From LA: A Rush Hour Drive with a City Planner.

To view this film with subtitles, click on the image and select "Spanish" of the menu on the bottom left.

I have to be honest, I've owed Deborah Murphy an apology for over three years.  You see, I misheard the director and I told her to wear a white shirt to the filming of  Lessons From LA: A Rush Hour Drive with a City Planner.  Now seems as good a time as ever to make that apology in writing.

Sorry, Deborah.

This is a fun little Streetfilm we put together in 2008.  Given L.A.'s national reputation as "Car Culture Capital" we thought it would be fun to take a long time transportation reformer and make her talk about L.A. while driving around Hollywood at rush hour.  Perverse of us.

A lot of you have probably never seen this film, as L.A. Streetblog's readership was less than 1/6th of what it is now, so this reposting provides a great chance to see it again or for the first time.

A full list of all the other films David Barboza has subtitled for us can be found after the jump.

L.A. Gets Diagonal Crosswalks, Again

Art Cycle 2009

It’s Just Like Riding a Bicycle

CicLAvia Is…

L.A. Street Summit 2010: Building Momentum for Change

Black Kids on Bikes

Long Beach Shifts Into High Gear

Cooking Up Bike Co-Ops in L.A.

Orange Line BRT and Bike Path

CicLAvia: Let’s Go!

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