ahh to be from a city with money.
what's happening there is really impressive.
what's sad is that, like humans, cities are also subject to quality of life improvements based on wealth.
2009-01-02 16:42:30
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NYC Bike/Ped Initiatives
NYC is making some awesome progress on improving the streets for cyclists and pedestrians. I saw these two on Twitter this morning and thought they were worth passing along.
11 min interview with Janette Sadik-Khan, New York City's Commissioner of the Department of Transportation:
http://ebbc.org/?q=node/2746
(Note, she was able to accomplish most of this in a year and a half...)
Article from NY Magazine on the work being done: http://nymag.com/news/articles/reasonstoloveny/2008/52954/
Seeing some of this makes me want to throw my bike in the back of my truck the next time I'm headed to NYC so I can check it out.
2009-01-01 18:19:27