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Janette Sadik-Khan’s Profiles in Political Courage From the NYC Bike Boom
In case you haven't seen it, don't miss the keynote address from livable streets luminary and New York City Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan at the SF Bicycle Coalition's Golden Wheel Awards last week.
June 28, 2013
Sadik-Khan Packs the House in LA, Then Brings It Down
Thanks to Clarence
Eckerson for this Streetfilms Shortie.
March 19, 2010
NY’s Sadik-Khan Joins Blumenauer, Byrne for “Cities for Cycling” Launch
Addressing a packed house in Washington last night, Rep. Earl Blumenauer, founder of the Congressional Bike Caucus, posed a Zen-like 'universalist cyclist question'.
December 9, 2009
Streetfilms: NYC Biking Up Big for Two Years Running
This year the New York City Department of Transportation measured a 26 percent jump in commuter cycling. Coming on the heels of 2008's unprecedented 35 percent growth, that puts the total two-year increase at a whopping 66 percent.
November 10, 2009
News From New York: The ABC’s of Trial Plazas and Complete Streets
When we wrote about the trial pedestrian plaza on 17th Street and Market Street that DPW expects to start this May, the story generated numerous doubts about how the city would create a successful public space out of a busy street abutting a gas station.
April 2, 2009
Transforming NYC Streets: A Conversation with Janette Sadik-Khan
With San Francisco about to embark on its first pilot street closure, I thought it would be appropriate to revisit this conversation with the Open Planning Project's Executive Director, Mark Gorton, and New York City's Commissioner of the Department of Transportation, Janette Sadik-Khan, who has taken on the challenge of transforming NYC streets in a series of groundbreaking pilot projects.
March 27, 2009