Streetfilms Shortie: Trees In The Road
In many residential areas of Melbourne, Australia, you’ll find a good helping of trees planted in the road between parking spaces and near intersections to help calm traffic. Here are but a few scenes.
Read more »Streetfilms: Interesting Center-Median Bike Path In New York
From Streetfilms comes this look at an interesting new piece of bike infrastructure in New York City: a protected, two-way center-median bike path:
Chalk up more bikeway innovation to the folks at the NYC Department of Transportation. Now nearly complete, the Sands Street approach to the Manhattan Bridge is now safer and more enjoyable thanks [...]
Streetfilms: Phoenix's METRO Light Rail Takes Flight
In this Streetfilms presentation, Clarence Eckerson, Jr. gives us a look at Phoenix, AZ’s new METRO light rail line. It is interesting to see rail transit catching on in another southern-US city.
Everyone knows that Phoenix has a huge sprawl problem. But now transit-oriented development is on the upswing in this Sun Belt metropolis. In [...]
Fort Worthology goes to Portland, Part Two: Bicycling
In today’s Portland post, we’re going to talk about bicycling in the Rose City, including our meet-up with fellow urbanism blogger Elly Blue of BikePortland.org.
(Note: this post contains video from our friends at StreetFilms, a fellow member of the StreetsBlog Network that Fort Worthology is part of. Clarence and the gang at StreetFilms do [...]
Fort Worth Public Spaces: Sundance Square Plaza
In the first of what I intend to make a series of posts on the site, I’m going to be taking a look at the state of public space in urban Fort Worth. As our first case, I thought I’d discuss the long-running question mark of the Sundance Square central plaza.
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Streetfilms: Sharing Street Space In Paris, Plus Friday Roundup
Each Friday, Fort Worthology intends to take a look at a variety of other blogs, both local and non-local transit/urbanism related, and see what’s going on in the blogosphere. This time, we’re also throwing in a Streetfilm.
This Streetfilms entry comes from fellow Livable Streets Network member Elizabeth Press, and shows street space sharing in [...]
Read more »Streetfilms – Daylighting: Making Crosswalks Safer
Daylighting is a simple pedestrian safety measure achieved by removing parking spaces adjacent to curbs around an intersection, increasing visibility for pedestrians and drivers and minimizing conflicts. It’s beneficial to young and old, but is especially helpful to children, who often cannot see, or be seen by, oncoming traffic. By removing parking adjacent to the [...]
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