Cameras, Crosswalks, and Change: Exploring the Policy and Design of Better Streets with Streetfilms

The new Sam Schwartz Transportation Research Program at Roosevelt House is pleased to present a special screening of selections from Streetfilms, an online documentary project and leading platform for educational films on sustainable transportation. These “shorts” will feature Streetfilms’ signature “man on the ground” storytelling approach, capturing how smart transportation design and policy in Paris, Montreal, London, and beyond are creating more vibrant, healthy, and livable communities.

Following the screening, Sam Schwartz, Chair and Founder of the Transportation Research Program, will lead a discussion with director and founder of Streetfilms, Clarence Eckerson Jr. They will explore which of the policies and infrastructure approaches portrayed in the films could be adapted for New York City, as well as the opportunities and challenges involved in doing so.

Please join us as we consider questions such as: What is Paris doing to protect children walking, and rolling, to school? How is Montreal innovating with bicycling infrastructure? How important was congestion pricing in allowing the city of London to rethink its streets?