New film marks one-year anniversary of Portland’s Alameda Bike Bus
It helped spark a movement that has sprouted bike buses all over the country.
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Blast from the past: BikeTV visits Pedalpalooza in 2005
An NYC cable access show interviewed some familiar faces.
PBOT director co-stars in Safe Routes Streetfilm
The best cure for gloominess about the progress of active transportation in Portland is Safe Routes to School.
In London, ’20’s plenty’ fast enough
Sounds reasonable to me. Streetfilms has a new video on 20’s Plenty for us, a campaign in the U.K. working to make 20 mph the standard speed limit in residential areas. The campaign is catching on quickly, with more and more U.K. cities adopting the policy all the time. Given that PBOT might be considering … Read more
A major dose of inspiration from Copenhagen
A new Streetfilm (watch it below) taken during the recent Velo-City Global conference in Copenhagen is like a refuge in a storm. Here in Portland (and across the country), we still struggle with resentment over bike lanes, a local media that’s happy to stir it up, people wanting to ban bikes completely because they’re simply … Read more
New from Streetfilms: Bike Rush Hour on the Hawthorne Bridge
Filmmaker Clarence Eckerson on the Hawthorne Bridge last week.-Watch video below- Streetfilms‘ Clarence Eckerson was in Portland recently for Filmed by Bike. While he was here, he teamed up with Dan Kaufman from Crank My Chain CycleTV to put together a new, 3-plus minute film that takes a look at “Bike Rush Hour” on Portland’s … Read more
An homage to Streetfilms: 200 films and countless inspirations
Clarence and his camera.(Photo © J. Maus) -Watch video below- We’ve featured many films from the crew at Streetfilms over the years. Their pioneering work — which has highlighted everything from ciclovias to separated bikeways — has had a major impact on the national and global livable streets movement. Earlier this week, Streetfilms’ head provocateur, … Read more
Comment of the Week: Legs of steel and the e-bike