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 […]
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 […]
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 […]