It's an excellent article. I think that it doesn't address bicycling in any way, because in NYC they're just not that into it, but it's progress.
This is the source document (West Palm Beach, 1996) that's the root of the movement for unbiased (ie, non-car-biased) transport communication:
http://www.8-80cities.org/Articles/City%20Transportation%20Language%20Policy.pdf
and you can see how the Complete Streets philosophy flows through that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_streets
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