Every month citycycling highlights some of our favourite finds from the net. This month, after a tip off from Chris Hill, the brains behind cyclingedinburgh.info (amongst other myriad cycling advocacy things, and a co-founder of the now famous Edinburgh Bicycle Co-Op), we head over the Pond again for another multimedia extravaganza.

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I've just clicked on a website where I am presented with a group of pedestrians, all in yellow beanie hats, joyously crossing a road in Manhattan, doing what is apparently known as the 'Barnes Dance'. What's it all about? Well it ppears this one particular junction in Manhattan is the only one which stops traffic from all four directions, giving total priority to pedestrians, and it does so for 17 seconds.

And this is what StreetFilms is about, use of the streets in a way that is better for pedestrians, cyclists, people in general, and cities as a whole. And the films are their way of presenting how tht should be done.

And if anyone has visions here of a group of yoghurt-eating, tofu-knitting, right-on hippies, somehow crashing the internet with babbling new-age nonsense, well you'll be in for a surprise, because this website is a slick effort, with equally slick high-quality videos on the site.

One particular website which caught our eye was a look at some dedicated bike parking in a new stadium built for the San Francisco Giants baseball team. A space was created within the walls of the stadium, which regularly sees 100 bikes parked for matches, operating like a cloakroom with an attendant always on duty. Contrast that to the millions spent on Arsenal's Emirates Stadium in London, which left out all possibility of bike parking until planners insisted and a few Sheffield stands were put in, and you'll realise that quite often the States is leaving us behind in good cycling provision.

And that's a gap that can only get bigger if organisations like StreetFilms continue to produce as good material as this.

Visit the website here.

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