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Clarence Eckerson Jr.

Clarence Eckerson Jr. is the Director of Video Production for NYCSR's StreetFilms and producer of bikeTV. He loves the color purple, chocolate chip cookies, and enjoys walking, biking, and taking transit. He has never owned a driver's license.

Recent Posts

Bay to Breakers. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
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Meet a Woman Who ‘Runs’ For Transit in Seattle

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jan 22, 2019 | No Comments
Meet a woman who combined her love of jogging with her support for transit.
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SEE IT! Boston’s Bus Rapid Transit is Working

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Dec 5, 2018 | No Comments
This short film shows how easily other cities could adapt BRT strategies.
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SEE IT! Inside the Transit Crisis in Miami

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Nov 26, 2018 | No Comments
Transit in Miami is in shambles. But Transit Alliance Miami is trying to fix it.
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Miami Shows How to Reclaim a Street from Cars

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Oct 22, 2018 | No Comments
For four days, on-street car storage was removed in favor of seating areas and mini-parks created by Avenue 3 Miami and supported by the Miami-Dade Transportation Quick-Build Program.
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Barcelona’s Superblocks: Change the Grid, Change Your Neighborhood

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Aug 8, 2018 | No Comments
Without dangerous, noisy car traffic overrunning the streets, superblocks are full of life.
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How Seville Handles Where Bus Stops and Protected Bike Lanes Meet

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jul 9, 2018 | No Comments
For cities considering protected bike lanes on streets that also have bus routes, this short video shows how Seville thought through the problem of making bus riders and cyclists visible to each other at bus stops.
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The Right to Walk

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Feb 7, 2018 | No Comments
In many cities, simply getting anywhere by foot has become dangerous: thousands of pedestrians are killed on the world’s roads each week.
Amsterdam. Photo:  MaxPixel
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The Netherlands Bike Montage Megamix

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jan 9, 2018 | No Comments
Over the past five years, I've visited several great cities for cycling in the Netherlands. One thing you'll notice if you go to places like Amsterdam, Groningen, Rotterdam, Utrecht, and Nijmegen is that there are a lot of kids biking.
In Rotterdam, transit gets its own lanes, then cars, then bikes, with a median to keep them safe. Photo: Streetsblog/Rudick
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Rotterdam: A Post-War Central City Moves Beyond the Automobile

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Dec 11, 2017 | No Comments
Even though much of central Rotterdam was built during the era of mass motoring, the city is taking major steps to shift away from cars and toward transit, biking, and walking.
A proper bike lane, on a proper street... so far, there are no plans to bring anything like this kind of infrastructure to unincorporated Alameda. Nijmegen. Photo: Bicycle Dutch
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Biking a Dutch Cycle Superhighway

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jun 20, 2017 | No Comments
It's no secret that the Dutch have the best bicycle infrastructure on Earth. And it keeps getting better. I recently got to ride the Arnhem-Nijmegen Cycle Superhighway. Imagine being able to bike 11 miles between two downtowns and not have to stop once for cars -- that's what the superhighway provides.
Vancouver is way ahead of other western cities in bike/transit mode split. Photo: Melissa and Chris Bruntlett

Vancouver’s Multi-Modal Success Story

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Dec 6, 2016 | No Comments
One of the best transportation stories of 2016 comes from Vancouver, British Columbia, which achieved its goal of having transit, biking, and walking account for 50 percent of all trips a full four years ahead of schedule. Bicycling is a big part of that shift, and now one of every 10 work trips is by bike. […]
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How to Build a Thriving, Equitable Bike-Share System

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Aug 3, 2016 | No Comments
Bike-share has the capability to expand access to jobs and transit for communities in need of better transportation options — but only if the system is set up and operated in an equitable way. Our latest collaboration with the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) examines how to build a thriving, equitable bike-share system. At the end […]
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