Streetfilms: Return of Bike Box!
We can’t set this one up any better than Mr. Eckerson himself, so without further ado:
At just about any public gathering I go these days, there’s usually
at least one person who will come up and give me an enthusiastic “Bike Box!”, based upon our earlier, popular Streetfilm.
In my heart I hoped there would one day be a sequel to Bike Box, and it
all came together last week while in Portland at the World Car-free
Conference. Earlier this year, Portland’s Office of Transportation
installed many high visibility bike boxes that are filled in lime green
to help cyclists avoid right hook collisions. (Note: NYC now has a few
green ones as well.)What we were unprepared for was being stopped by random cyclists who
wanted to lend their collective “Bike Box!” exclamations. So watch and
see all the fun improv as it flows.
Clarence and the Streetfilms crew are also looking for homegrown bike box videos to feature in the Streetfilms sidebar. To participate, post a vid of bike boxes in your city on YouTube and tag it “streetfilms.”
Bike Box!
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