She lambasts Ford’s notion that cycling in the city streets is inherently dangerous, saying the issue is with the design of the streets: “the fault is not in our cyclists, but in our streets”.īut New Yorkers are certainly no less cynical than Torontonians or Vancouverites so, how on Earth did she manage to push the changes through? Part of the reason is how the city decided to hold its public meetings, and it’s worth quoting at length.Īt typical public meetings, city officials lecture community members for twenty minutes, then take questions. Sadik-Khan deplores the way the transit referendum took place in Vancouver (as you read the lines, you can picture her rolling her eyes) but saves her polite sarcasm for Rob Ford’s decision to remove existing bike lanes in Toronto. One of the many chuckles in the book are the mentions of Toronto and Vancouver, as examples of what not to do. Pearl Street Plaza in Brooklyn, before and after.
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