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Shifting into High Gear at Pro Walk Pro Bike 2012
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Nearly 1,000 transportation professionals, advocates and place-makers gathered in beautiful Long Beach, CA for the Pro Walk Pro Bike conference last week. Streetfilms caught up with attendees to find out what some of the hot topics were at the conference in in their communities. Of course, we couldn’t talk to everyone, so let us know what we […]
Active Living For All Ages: Creating Neighborhoods Around Transit
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Streetfilms teamed up with the Public Policy Institute at AARP to bring you a look at how Arlington, Virginia plans for its senior population using transit-oriented development (TOD). Arlington has been practicing TOD since the late 1970s, when Washington’s Metrorail first began service there, and it’s proved very effective in accommodating the population growth of […]
Gaining Momentum: The 2012 Youth Bike Summit
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More than 275 people from 20 states and three countries came to the second annual Youth Bike Summit over the weekend of January 13. Organized by pioneering NYC community bike shop Recycle-A-Bicycle, the three day conference was a chance for young bike advocates to share strategies and draw inspiration from the keynote speakers, Congresswoman Nydia […]
Getting Started with Universal Subtitles
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(I hope we whetted your appetite yesterday. Here, the Streetfilms team explains the nuts and bolts. – DN) Streetfilms is very excited about launching Universal Subtitles, a web-based video subtitling tool. Universal Subtitles uses crowd sourcing to allow viewers to translate and subtitle videos in any language, as well as improve upon existing translations. Read more about […]
Moving Beyond the Automobile: Traffic Calming
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What’s the most effective way to make city streets safer? As Chicago Alderman Mary Ann Smith told Streetfilms, “Signs don’t do the job, even having police officers on the corner does not do the job.” To prevent traffic injuries and deaths, you need to change how the street functions and make it feel slower for […]
Moving Beyond the Automobile: Car-Sharing
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In the third episode of our Moving Beyond the Automobile series, Streetfilms takes a look at a more efficient way to use cars. Unlike owning a car, which involves a large upfront purchase and low costs per trip, car-sharing allows people to evaluate the full cost of each car trip. When car-share members choose whether […]
Streetfilms News: Podcasts, YouTube, Twitter and “Streetfilms Shorties”
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You’ve been asking for more ways to get your Streetfilms fix, and now you’ve got ’em. In addition to now posting all of our new films directly to YouTube, we’ve started podcasting on iTunes and Miro, making it easy to enjoy the latest and greatest from Streetfilms just about anywhere. Currently, our top 25 films […]