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Minneapolis Bike Lanes

Touring One of the U.S.’s Best Biking Cities: Minneapolis

The latest Streetfilms release offers an in-person, on-bike tour of Minneapolis.

July 14, 2022 - Streetfilms

Streetfilms Tours the New Queens Boulevard

Take a visual tour of the changes that transformed Queens Boulevard.

January 27, 2016 - Streetfilms

Tracing the Growth of the Open Streets Movement

A new documentary from Streetfilms explores how open streets events–which repurpose public spaces for people, rather than vehicles–have grown over the past several decades throughout South and North America.

January 12, 2014 - Streetfilms

Parking and Prices

This video from Streetfilms looks into parking and explores why underpriced parking can be bad for cities.

April 24, 2011 - Streetfilms

Freeways That Should Come Down

CNU president John Norquist stars in this video from Streetfilms about the problem of inner-city highways and the steps some cities are taking to get rid of theirs.

April 11, 2011 - Streetfilms

A Video Explanation of Congestion Pricing

This video from Streetfilms explains the concept of congestion pricing and looks at how it can affect cities and their mobility.

March 19, 2011 - Streetfilms

The Rise of Car Sharing

Streetfilms takes a look at the growing trend of car sharing as part of its series on cities moving beyond the automobile.

March 5, 2011 - Streetfilms

Video Series on Cities Going Beyond the Car

Streetfilms has begun a ten-part video series looking at non-automobile transportation in cities across the U.S.

March 3, 2011 - Streetfilms

Snow as Traffic Calming

Recent snowstorms in much of the U.S. have left many cities with major snow cleanup jobs on their streets. In some instances, though, the buildup of snow has created natural traffic-calming curb extensions.

February 9, 2011 - Streetfilms

Heavy Traffic Means Less Social Streets

Streetfilms looks back at Professor Donald Appleyard's pioneering work observing the social life of streets, which proved that streets with less traffic fostered more social interactions than those with heavy traffic.

January 23, 2011 - Streetfilms

Why Transit Agencies Should Open Their Data

Streetfilms offers this video about how opening up transit agency data can greatly improve urban public transit systems for riders at little or no cost to the agencies.

August 18, 2010 - Streetfilms

Consolidating Stops to Make Buses Run Faster

Riders of San Francisco's Muni bus system often complain that the buses stop too much. Now, evidence is building that simply consolidating bus stops will help to make the buses run faster and more reliably.

April 24, 2010 - Streetfilms

Parking Illustrated

In this video from Streetfilms, Donald Shoup discusses and shows how parking reform can work. Toy cars and stop-motion animation included.

December 31, 2007 - Streetfilms

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