New York New York. If they can do it there, you can do it anywhere!
As a long time New Yorker I look with wonder at this. Check out StreetFilms:
A Conversation With Janette Sadik-Khan
At
http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/10/22/streetfilms-a-conversation-with-janett
e-sadik-khan/
In this exclusive
<http://www.streetfilms.org/archives/transforming-nyc-streets-with-jsk/>
Streetfilms interview, The Open Planning Project's Executive Director Mark
Gorton talks with Department of Transportation Commissioner Janette
Sadik-Khan about how her agency is redefining public space in New York City.
As the two take a walking tour of recently revamped streetscapes designed to
encourage car-free movement and foster social activity -- including Broadway
<http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/09/23/broadway-boulevard-confirms-people-wi
ll-sit-in-well-placed-seats/> Boulevard, Gansevoort
<http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/04/24/eyes-on-the-street-gansevoort-plaza-o
pen-for-business/> Plaza, Meat
<http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/04/25/streetfilm-the-transformation-of-meat
-market-plaza/> Market Plaza and the Ninth
<http://www.streetfilms.org/archives/ninth-avenue-gets-a-physically-separate
d-bike-lane/> Avenue cycle track -- Sadik-Khan explains how she sees the
city grid evolving from "utilitarian corridors" into civic amenities.
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