This documentary project focuses on how New Yorkers who walk, bike and drive are dealing with the increasing space given to bicyclists (bike lanes, etc.) and how city roads, and city behaviors, are changing to reflect this emerging social dynamic. Footage from the urban transportation battlefield along with interviews from each group portray a hostile environment of city-dwellers.

The video features Julie Raskin, a friend of mine from college who had worked for the DOT and their acclaimed Transportation Alternatives Initiative, who then put me in touch with Community Board 1, a New York City civil organization that planned a bike trip down Kent Ave in Williamsburg. It wasn't just any bike trip, though; the bike lanes had just been finished by the city the night before, and the trip was to represent Community Board 1's fight and subsequent success over drivers who did not initially want the lanes to infringe upon their space.

Shooting the bike trip was inspiring and further cemented the idea that in fact the city's transportation habits are changing, and doing so rapidly. Kent Ave represented to us and to them a future city road, a way paved not just with separate car, bike and pedestrian lanes but with a changing approach to how city-dwellers cohabitate. After the ride we had the opportunity to interview two of the riders, Julie my friend and head of the Brooklyn Transportation Alternatives initiative Paco Abraham. They both were firmly pro-bike but sympathized about how pedestrians and drivers are coping with the fact that their spaces were being divided and handed over to a new, rising population of people who choose to ride around the city.

More often than not, individuals were staunchly for their own habits and against those they didn't understand (pedestrians didn't like bicyclists and drivers, drivers didn't like bicyclist and peds, etc. etc.), which was no surprise. Changing behaviors, however, will always be met by resistance.