Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Janette Sadik-Khan

StreetFilms: Tour de Bronx, in Pictures

By Brad Aaron | Oct 22, 2007 | 1 Comment

StreetFilms’ Clarence Eckerson put down the heavy video equipment and brought along a still camera for this weekend’s Tour de Bronx. Blessed by incredible weather, this year’s ride was kicked off by Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion (ahem) and DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, who Clarence says got "perhaps the biggest ovation I have ever heard […]

DOT Unveils Sidewalk Compass Markings

By Brad Aaron | Oct 16, 2007 | 15 Comments

If you’re a directionally-challenged pedestrian, as I am, and often have to rely on sun and skyline to tell you which way is up, this one’s for you. From the DOT: Tuesday, October 16, 2007, 12:30 pm at 150 East 42nd: New York City Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, Grand Central Partnership (GCP) President/CEO Fred Cerullo […]

National Media Noticing the Urban Bicycling Trend

By Jason Varone | Oct 9, 2007 | 2 Comments

Apparently unaware of New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn’s assertion that "human-powered vehicles are never going to be the answer," USA Today reports that several large U.S. cities are accelerating their efforts to encourage commuting on two wheels. The article cites New York for the new separated bike lane, and for putting bike racks […]

A Ride Down NYC’s “Street of the Future”

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 4, 2007 | 35 Comments

For years, Livable Streets advocates have pleaded with New York City’s Department of Transportation to just try new things. Do street design experiments using temporary materials. Give new ideas a shot. If an experiment doesn’t work, take it down, redesign it, improve it or, heck, just restore it to how it used to be. What […]

New Ninth Avenue Separated Bike Path is Already in Place

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 3, 2007 | 18 Comments

The unprecedented new physically-separated bike path running along Chelsea’s Ninth Avenue has already been set up using temporary materials. The Department of Transportation is billing it as New York City’s "street of the future." New York 1 reported yesterday: Bicyclists have a new lane to use in Chelsea, and the city is hoping to expand […]

DOT Minds the GAP

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 2, 2007 | 9 Comments

With city workers pouring concrete in the background (and StreetFilms’ cameras rolling), New York City Department of Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan announced pedestrian and cyclist improvements for Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza yesterday. The plan calls for 11,000 square feet of new, landscaped pedestrian islands, a separated bike path, new crosswalks and pedestrian signals. The redesign […]

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