StreetFilms

Three years ago Streetfilms brought you a comprehensive look at Bogotá, Colombia's TransMilenio, the world's most advanced Bus Rapid Transit system. TransMilenio changed the way Bogotá residents think about public transportation, becoming indispensable to the 1.7 million people who use the system daily. If anything, the bus network became a victim of its own success, handling more passengers and crowding than its planners anticipated. Today, ten years after TransMilenio launched, we revisit this groundbreaking transit system and examine how it must improve as it matures.

David Barboza's remarkable pro-bono run translating L.A. Streetfilms for us is at an end.  I don't think he planned it this way, but the last Streetfilm shot in L.A. that needed subtitles, was the first one that we ever shot and the reason for the first visit to Los Angeles by the Streetfilms team.  It includes a lot of "famous" faces, including Transit Coalition E.D. Bart Reed and then City Council Transportation Committee Chair Wendy Greuel.

The good news? David Barboza has translated another "L.A. Streetfilm" and provided subtitles for a classic Streetfilm. If there's one group of people that have supported Streetsblog and everything we've been trying to do, it's the Los Angeles Eco-Village. Both as an organization, the Eco-Village has sponsored two fundraisers, and as individuals, it seems everytime Streetsblog needs something, the Eco-Village is there.

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.

While our CicLAvia Streetfilms have been viewed more times by Angelenos than any other film, two L.A. Streetfilms have garnered over 10,000 views nationwide. One of those was our look at the Scramble Crosswalks, where pedestrians are given their own time to cross the street in whatever direction they choose.

In 2007, in order to route cyclists away from a challenging 7-lane crossing on busy Hiawatha Avenue, Minneapolis built the Martin Olav Sabo Bridge.

Just as advertising and promotion for the 2011 East Hollywood ArtCycle are kicking into high gear, our friend David Barboza has added Spanish subtitles to Streetfilms' take on the 2009 ArtCycle.