L.A.’s East Hollywood ArtCycle & Block Party
The bike scene in Los Angeles is alive and well - and growing every day. Streetfilms rode along with one of two ArtCycle tours of local studio spaces sponsored by the East Hollywood Neighborhood...
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Cars Invade Golden Gate Park, Inner Sunset as Institutions Reopen
Photo by Bryan GoebelThe Music Concourse in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park is living proof of that ancient maxim dating back to the movie Field of Dreams: if you build it, they will come.In this...
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A Sunny and Beautiful Sunday Streets on the Great Highway
Walking the dog on the portion of the Great Highway closed to traffic for four hours. Photo: sfbike Despite early fog hugging the coast, the sun finally came out to play around 12:30 pm yesterday and...
View ArticleBiking Around NYC With Randy “The Ethicist” Cohen
A few years ago, Randy Cohen, who writes the "Ethicist" column in the New York Times Magazine, visited the Streetfilms set for an interview about "transportation ethics." For this sequel, we got out...
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SFMTA: Market Street Traffic Pilot is Meeting Its Objectives
The Market Street traffic diversion pilot only got better for people on bikes when the SFMTA striped bright green bike lanes. Not all drivers are complying with the required turns, though. Photo:...
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SF Continues to Explore More Permanent Sunday Streets in 2012
Sunday Streets will come to Valencia and 24th Streets in the Mission each month from May to August this year. Photo: geekstinkbreath/Flickr Sunday Streets keeps on growing, with 10 car-free events...
View ArticleFlashback: The Mother of All Streetfilms
Hey SF, Aaron is out with a nasty bug today, so to keep your content craving sated I thought I’d share this proto-Streetfilm from 2004, which Clarence Eckerson recently unearthed for a museum exhibit...
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Separated Bike-Ped Path Coming to Mansell Street in McLaren Park by 2016
Images: Rec and Parks Mansell Street, which runs through McLaren Park, is poised to get a two-way bikeway and a walking and jogging path separated from motor traffic under a plan approved by the...
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We Used to Expect Streets to Be as Safe as We Do Holly Park
Rarely does the death of someone struck by a motorist garner as much public outrage as the incident in Holly Park last week. Media around the world has covered the death of Christine Svanemyr, who was...
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Marina Boat Owners Riled by Proposal to Take Cars Off Bike/Ped Path
DPW proposes removing the 51 parking spaces (seen here on the right, mostly empty) along the only stretch of the Bay Trail where cars are currently allowed. Photo: Aaron Bialick Along Marina Boulevard...
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At Car-Free Marina Path Meeting, Parking-First Boaters Balanced by Sanity
Image: DPW Update 12/19: DPW now has an online survey you can take about removing parking on the Marina path. Marina boat owners riled by the prospect of removing underused car parking from the Marina...
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SFMTA to Ban Cars on Kezar, Stanyan, Haight Street for 4/20 This Sunday
Upper Haight Street, Stanyan Street, and Kezar Drive will be closed to cars for 4/20. Photo: Aaron Bialick The SFMTA announced that cars will be banned on several major streets for the 4/20 gathering...
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Tuesday: Support Needed for a Car-Free Bike/Ped Path on the Marina
Photo: SFDPW One year after community planning meetings began, plans finally appear to be moving forward for removing the 51 parking spaces in the middle of a walking and biking path along the Marina —...
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Boat Owners Gripe as Car-Free Marina Path Moves Forward
Attendees at a community meeting last night in the Marina. Photo: Aaron Bialick A community meeting held yesterday about plans to remove car parking from a stretch of the Marina pedestrian and bike...
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Parking-Free Marina Path Plan Could Be Delayed By Boaters’ Parking Proposal
The Marina path as it exists today. Photo: Department of Public Works Updated at 11:38 p.m. with further response from the Recreation and Parks Department below. The Marina Boulevard bicycle and...
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New York City Now Has Permanently Car-Free Roads in Two Major Parks
Photo: Ben Fried A week after New York City’s Central Park went mostly car-free, today marked the beginning of the permanent car-free zone on the west side of Prospect Park [PDF]. Leading up to today,...
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Separated Bike-Ped Path Coming to Mansell Street in McLaren Park by 2016
Mansell Street, which runs through McLaren Park, is poised to get a two-way bikeway and a walking and jogging path separated from motor traffic under a plan approved by the Recreation and Parks...
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We Used to Expect Streets to Be as Safe as We Do Holly Park
Rarely does the death of someone struck by a motorist garner as much public outrage as the incident in Holly Park last week. Media around the world has covered the death of Christine Svanemyr, who was...
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Marina Boat Owners Riled by Proposal to Take Cars Off Bike/Ped Path
Along Marina Boulevard there’s a bicycle and pedestrian path where visitors and residents can stroll along the bay without having to worry about cars — until they get to the stretch between Scott and...
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At Car-Free Marina Path Meeting, Parking-First Boaters Balanced by Sanity
Image: DPW Update 12/19: DPW now has an online survey you can take about removing parking on the Marina path. Marina boat owners riled by the prospect of removing underused car parking from the Marina...
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