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Janette Sadik-Khan
@JSadikKhan
Author, Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution. Principal with @BloombergAssoc and former NYCDOT commissioner #STREETFIGHT
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    Janette Sadik-Khan
    @JSadikKhan
    May 24, 2019
    10 years ago today, people said we were crazy to pedestrianize Broadway. Today, it would be crazy to bring the cars back. Times Square wasn’t just a public space project, it was the start of a global revolution in how cities think about their streets.
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    Janette Sadik-Khan
    @JSadikKhan
    Dec 21, 2020
    Public transportation carries 10x more people than airlines yet Congress thinks it needs $1 billion less aid. Not everybody rides transit but everyone is dependent on those who do. Here's why transit recovery is national economic recovery.
    theatlantic.com
    Public Transit Has to Come Back
    The pandemic shouldn’t become a pretext for giving up on subways and buses.
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    Janette Sadik-Khan
    @JSadikKhan
    Aug 28, 2022
    The future of urban transportation isn't driverless cars, flying cars and drones. The most inspiring trend before, during and after the pandemic has been the rise of the 'car-free' city, where people, not cars , are the central planning principle.
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    Fareed Zakaria
    @FareedZakaria
    Aug 28, 2022
    Cities like Copenhagen and Amsterdam haven’t always been “pedestrian meccas,” says @JSadikKhan. It took years of work. Other cities can learn from them. Our conversation from today’s GPS:
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    Janette Sadik-Khan
    @JSadikKhan
    Apr 26, 2019
    BREAKING: Scientists have finally captured an image of the colossal force at the center of the urban universe that’s tearing cities apart 👇🏼
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    Janette Sadik-Khan
    @JSadikKhan
    Apr 6, 2023
    10 years ago today we installed NYC's first Citi Bike station. They said that bikes would bring traffic chaos, danger & lawsuits. What happened instead was history: 178 million trips, 100k rides daily on 28k bikes, turning NYC into one of the world's great cycling cities.
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    Janette Sadik-Khan
    @JSadikKhan
    Mar 26, 2021
    Ship happens: A system that's one mishap away from breaking down isn't much of a resilient system. As we dig out from the worst year ever, it's time to make our transportation networks as diverse as the people using them.
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    Janette Sadik-Khan
    @JSadikKhan
    Dec 27, 2021
    "Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring." –Desmond Tutu Rest in peace, in power and forever in our hearts.
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    Janette Sadik-Khan
    @JSadikKhan
    Apr 3, 2018
    Freedom isn’t being able to get anywhere in your car. Freedom is being able to get anywhere without one. Nashville is first-in-the-nation to declare transportation independence.
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    Janette Sadik-Khan
    @JSadikKhan
    Jul 22, 2021
    The future of cities is based on the people who live, walk, bike, work and eat on its streets — and not just on the cars parked along it. It's time for pandemic-era outdoor dining to become a permanent, and it's also time to meet a higher standard.
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    Put people over cars on our streets
    From nydailynews.com
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    Janette Sadik-Khan
    @JSadikKhan
    Feb 9, 2019
    Dear Transportation, Tech and Media Companies, Cities need people-friendly mobility options that reclaim streets from the damage caused by cars, not gimmicks that dance around the damage. Love, Janette
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    Mashable
    @mashable
    Feb 8, 2019
    If this is what the future looks like, we're not complaining
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    Janette Sadik-Khan
    @JSadikKhan
    Oct 3, 2021
    The bikelash is dead, long live the media bikelash! @nytimes takes a break from ignoring ~3,700 daily global traffic deaths to focus on Paris—one of the world's safest cities aftr yrs reclaiming roads & where 1 million bike daily despite safety perceptions
    People riding their bikes on the cross of Rue de Rivoli and boulevard Sebastopol — two main bicycles lanes in central Paris during the morning rush hour, in September.
    As Bikers Throng the Streets, ‘It’s Like Paris Is in Anarchy’ (Published 2021)
    From nytimes.com
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    Janette Sadik-Khan
    @JSadikKhan
    Dec 6, 2023
    Cars move just 24% of Manhattan's people but generate 100% of its traffic congestion. NYC has a generational opportunity to invest in better transit service and reimagined streets for the 75% of people who rely on bus, train, bike and walking. The time is now.
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    MTA
    @MTA
    Dec 6, 2023
    Today, the MTA Board voted to approve the Traffic Mobility Review Board's recommendations on congestion pricing. This kicks off the state's toll-making process and brings us one step closer to making congestion pricing a reality. Read the report: new.mta.info/document/127761
    A view of traffic congestion on York Av looking south from 60 Street.
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    Janette Sadik-Khan
    @JSadikKhan
    Apr 30, 2020
    Not the death of the car as much as the rebirth of the city. When you give people transportation choices, you give them transportation independence. Now is the moment to build the post-COVID future we want, w/bikeable, walkable & transit-accessible streets
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    How cities are clamping down on cars
    From bbc.com
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    Janette Sadik-Khan
    @JSadikKhan
    Jan 31, 2019
    No matter how you slice it, a driverless car is still a car. An electric car is still a car. An e-hail car is still a car. All the techie fairy dust in the world can't turn cars into the liberators of all the street space they dominate.
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