Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Janette Sadik-Khan

Janette Sadik-Khan’s Profiles in Political Courage From the NYC Bike Boom

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 28, 2013 | 1 Comment

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. Following an intro from Ed Reiskin full of high praise, Sadik-Khan quipped that her next act would be “turning water into wine.” […]

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Sadik-Khan Packs the House in LA, Then Brings It Down

By Damien Newton | Mar 19, 2010 | No Comments

Thanks to Clarence Eckerson for this Streetfilms Shortie. The L.A. StreetSummit kicked off last night with a rousing keynote address and slide show by the groundbreaking New York City DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Kahn. Three levels of an Occidental College auditorium were packed with students, bike advocates from around the county, and others interested in Livable […]

NY’s Sadik-Khan Joins Blumenauer, Byrne for “Cities for Cycling” Launch

By Elana Schor | Dec 9, 2009 | 3 Comments

Addressing a packed house in Washington last night, Rep. Earl Blumenauer, founder of the Congressional Bike Caucus, posed a Zen-like ‘universalist cyclist question’. Photo: Cities for Cycling "How many people, right now," he asked, "are stuck in traffic on their way to ride a stationary bike in a health club?" The quip got a big […]

Streetfilms: NYC Biking Up Big for Two Years Running

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Nov 10, 2009 | No Comments

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. Much of the growth in cycling can be attributed to the installation of 200 miles of bike […]

News From New York: The ABC’s of Trial Plazas and Complete Streets

By Matthew Roth | Apr 2, 2009 | 8 Comments

The trial plaza at Madison Square 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. As commenter Josh said, […]

Transforming NYC Streets: A Conversation with Janette Sadik-Khan

By Bryan Goebel | Mar 27, 2009 | No Comments

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. As […]