A couple of Saturdays ago, I joined many others in filming (digitally) for the One Day On Earth project. I talked with Ken and Roberta Avidor about living a car-free lifestyle at the Union Depot in Lowertown Saint Paul, their work as commercial artists, and about some of the differences between Saint Paul and Minneapolis. […]
David Levinson tweeted this interesting video showing the Google self-driving car operating on city streets around people walking and biking. My reaction was as follows: Bet it gets a lot of horn honking from behind while it waits for bikes, peds, and tracks to clear. I like that. @mikesonn tweeted this: or, more likely, lots […]
On Saturday April 26, 2014, I will be spending the day filming around MSP along with many other professional and amateur filmmakers documenting ten questions for the future of our city. Pick up a camera and join us! The result will be a geo tagged database of video clips and a national PBS TV series. […]
In this famous opening shot in Touch of Evil (1958), Orson Welles shows us that walking can be just as fast and much safer than driving in many cases. Via Critical Commons.
The future has long been a very popular topic in cinema. A handful of videos posted here on streets.mn concern themselves with the future: Avidor, To New Horizons, The Automobile in the Year 2000, Bobbie Jones, Foreign Exchange Student in the Future, The Astounding World of the Future, and Magic Highway, USA. The Future of […]
In continuing the theme of the automobile PR campaigns, Walt Disney shows us the history of American motoring, highway engineering, and gives us a look into the future.
Earlier this week a “Chart of the Day” post by Matt Steele about the always debated SWLRT project sparked 47(!) comments at the time of this writing. Part of the discussion in the comment thread touched on the idea of “The American Dream” incarnated as suburban living. The argument that people in the U.S. want […]
Earlier this week, streets.mn contributor Janne Flisrand wrote a popular post questioning why complete strangers sometimes freely offer their negative perceptions about people who ride bicycles on city streets. Most of the comment thread focused on a back and forth over the relative severity of the problem of people disobeying the law while riding bicycles […]
Video by Daniel Penner. You say you want to get around the city without spending the $9,000 to maintain and operate a car each year, and maybe get some exercise while you’re at it? You don’t have that kind of cash. And you know, the planet. But those bike lanes can look pretty intimidating, with all the mustachioed hipsters […]
Protected bike lanes are the latest approach US cities are taking to help their residents get around by bike. But these protected lanes lose their buffer separation at intersections, reducing the comfort and safety for people riding. What the protected bike lane needs is the protected intersection. This proposal for the George Mason University 2014 […]