New from StreetFilms: Los Angeles: The Great American Transit Experiment
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StreetFilms and TransitCenter explore L.A. transit successes and issues, and question what is needed to make transit better serve the county's future
Recent Streetsblog LA posts about StreetFilms
Barcelona’s Superblocks: Change the Grid, Change your Neighborhood
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Over two years ago, Barcelona set the transportation world aflutter when it announced it would be attempting to reinvent parts of its city by developing a Superblock system by transforming targeted street grids to prioritize people over cars. On selected small street networks large parts of intersections and roadways would be taken back for parks and community […]
The Problem With the Metro Blue/Expo Light Rail Is… Cars
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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?
How Seville Handles Where Bus Stops and Protected Bike Lanes Meet
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If you’re jonesing for more Seville on top of the full-length Streetfilm about the city’s rapidly growing protected bike lane network, here’s a segment for you. 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 […]
How Seville Got Its Bicycle Network
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As recently as 2006, almost no one in Seville got around by bicycle. The city’s bike network was nearly non-existent. When the leaders of this city of 700,000 in Andalusia decided to make bicycling a viable transportation option, they didn’t mess around — they built an 80-kilometer bike network in just 18 months — and that was just the […]
Biking a Dutch Cycle Superhighway
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It's no secret that the Dutch have the best bicycle infrastructure on Earth. And it keeps getting better. I recently got to ride the Arnhem-Nijmegen Cycle Superhighway. Imagine being able to bike 11 miles between two downtowns and not have to stop once for cars -- that's what the superhighway provides.