StreetFilms

It's Tueday, so that means it's time to announce another Los Angeles Streetfilm has been translated by David Barboza and now has Spanish subtitles.  This week's film is L.A. Street Summit:Building Momentum for Change, which is a fun watch to see how far we've come in just fifteen months.  We're not saying that everything is rosy now, but when you look at the things that we're talking about in the film versus what we're talking about now...I mean, we didn't even know whether or not we were ever going to see CicLAvia.

If there's one thing the Streetfilms team loves, its Bus Rapid Transit projects.  There's a reason why in the first year of L.A. Streetsblog's existence we published not one, but two Streetfilms on the Orange Line.  The second of those films, by Clarence Eckerson Jr., was subtitled earlier this week by David Barboza, who has now subtitled four different Streetfilms for us.  Eckerson loved the Orange Line not just for its wild popularity, but also the multi-modal aspect of the line and its parallel bike path.

Another "L.A. Streetfilm" gets subtitles, and this time it's not via David Barboza.  LACBC staffer, and Streetsblog favorite Allison Mannos. with an assist from Andrea Garland, did the work on what remains my favorite Streetfilm, "Cooking Up Bike Co-Ops in L.A."  This isn't just a great Streetfilm, and a great bike film it's a wonderful illustration of the strengths and quirkiness of our local bike culture.

Just nine days after Long Beach Mobility Coordinator Charlie Gandy gave me a personal tour of Long Beach's impressive bike infrastructure, David Barboza has translated his third Streetfilm into Spanish for us.  Now, the same tour I received from "the bike guy," as Gandy introduced himself to people around the city, is available to the thousands of people in the Southland who can speak Spanish, but not English.  Thanks, David!

The great David Barboza strikes again with Spanish subtitles for an "L.A. Streetfilm," and again he chooses one of the films created by a local film maker.  Ivy London's: Black Kids on Bikes was our first effort to produce a Streetfilm locally and focused on one of L.A.'s many famous group rides, although one that doesn't get the same press as Critical Mass or Midnight Ridazz.  The BKoB ride is all about creating community and a place for inner city kids to ride safely and ride in a group.  A great film which could use a second play regardless of whether or not you want or need to read the subtitles.

(I hope we whetted your appetite yesterday.  Here, the Streetfilms team explains the nuts and bolts. - DN)

Last week, Streetfilms announced the addition of a new crowd sourcing application that allows anyone to subtitle a Streetfilm.  Once subtitled, the film will be available on Streetfilms with the subtitles.  If you want to see how it works, Chris Abraham wrote a helpful introduction post  at Streetfilms.

Anyone who claims that bike-sharing is a European-style transportation innovation has clearly never set foot in Hangzhou, China. The 50,000-bike system in this southern China city of almost 7 million people (about 1.5 million people fewer than New York City) blows all other bike-shares off the map. As Bradley Schroeder of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy said, "I don't think there is anywhere you can stand in Hangzhou for more than a minute or two where you wouldn't have a Hangzhou Public Bike go past you."