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The winning entry in the U.S. PIRG 21st Century Transportation Video Contest, via Streetsblog.

From the Savannah Morning News:

Description: Kevin Fry, president of Scenic America, narrates a slide show by New York Times photographers. (2007)

Source: New York Times

Excerpt: “This place does not have to be this aesthetically deadening, ugly and soul-draining.There are ways to build places that can actually enhance your life, instead of make your life miserable or empty.”
To watch, click here.

Description: Ian Lockwood from Glatting Jackson delivers a presentation about the traffic calming program in West Palm Beach, FL. (2005)

Source: Google Video

Excerpt: “In order to make the city healthy again, we had to wean ourselves off our addiction to speed. We slowed down our arterials, we slowed down our neighborhood streets and we slowed down everything in between. And when we did that, really great things happened. It doesn’t really matter if it takes the commuter a couple extra minutes to get into town, because place should always trump speed and level of service.”

To watch, click here.

Description: When a streetscape is designed to maximize the flow of motor vehicles the results are as predictable as they are ugly. Yet we may not comprehend how desolate the built environment becomes when it is designed exclusively to move cars. Traffic becomes a distraction, drawing our attention away from the ways that it degrades the spaces, public and private, at the edge of the roadway. But when we strip away the cars, we can see how much damage they have done. If we continue to put the needs of cars ahead of the needs of people, we’ll get more of the same and likely worse.

 Source: Preserving Savannah Neighborhoods

The photos below were taken on DeRenne Avenue on Sunday, Jan. 13 ,2008.

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.