In 2023 the NYC City Council decided to make outdoor dining permanent but impose more strict requirements. Some rules were welcome, but the unacceptable stipulation that passed was that the program would no longer be year-round, essentially killing many of the streeteries, some with very elaborate, beautiful designs with copious greenery. Some restaurants spent a lot of money to put them up.

Stockholm is a wonderful city to walk, walk & walk! But nearly everything else is great too, the public space, the shopping, the transit and - wow - bicycling there is just getting more & more enjoyable. Now on nice non-winter days, about 32% of the downtown city center use the bike to get around and to work!

While in Boston, Dorothy Fennell & Zack DeClerck (co-founders of CargoB) invited my family to try out their new cargo bike rental system thru the streets, bike lanes and parks in Boston. We had a great time for 3 hours and visited some historic sites, some favorite greenways and briefly checked out the newest crazy-good protected bike lanes on Tremont Street.

Streetfilms has always tried to work daylighting into everything I can. It just makes sense to not have cars parked all the way up to crosswalks (or in some cases right up until the intersection!). By eliminating cars being parked from the first 10 to 15 feet (in some places they use 20!) you create a safer environment for drivers to not only see peds & bicyclists but OTHER drivers.

At the Ghent 2024 Velo-city event, Streetfilms went along on a technical visit "Cycling Through School Areas" to see some of the road treatments the city does for kids and families to help get them to schools in a safe environment. Here is a little of that tour to inspire your city to do the same!

Come watch the riders, sound, sites, festive atmosphere & creative fun that was the annual Velo-city bike ride, this year in Ghent!

My family and I visited The Netherlands for the first time and met up with Mark Wagenbuur (Bicycle Dutch on YouTube) in Utrecht. He gave us a fantastic tour of the train station area, showing off bike improvements, open spaces, and even took us to the incredible Railway Museum—one of the best in the world.