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London Mayor Sadiq Khan is mapping out one of the largest systematic transfers of car space to buses and people biking and walking of any global capital, and already has sectioned off temporary bike lanes using inexpensive barriers and markings.Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo is closing main roads like the Rue de Rivoli to cars and launching a 450-mile bike lane plan to connect the city with residential towns.Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala converted 22 miles of car lanes into space for people to walk and bike.For most of the spring, we were spectators as other cities executed large-scale street transformations using the same tactics that New York pioneered a decade ago: New York can again become a leader during the global transportation recovery. These actions, once considered “radical,” are now the principal weapon for cities around the world responding to the health and economic crisis. The strategies that powered these roadway reclamations-acting fast and using lightweight materials-resulted in rapid changes that many thought were impossible: New York quickly vaulted past 1,000 miles of bike paths, launched the nation’s largest bike share system, converted former road space into 70 neighborhood plazas and into hundreds of car-free street events, and established 20 rapid bus routes at negligible cost and creating the safest streets in history.
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Elizabeth Kimįor more than a decade, New York City was a global leader in transforming streets from traffic-dominated hellscapes into safer, people-friendly, transit-prioritized places. Not surprisingly, during the pandemic, she has been outspoken about the integral role New York City streets will play in its recovery. Today, Sadik-Khan works as a transportation consultant for Bloomberg Associates, where she advises cities across the world. But for a generation of cyclists and urbanists, she became a vanguard whose ideas, once seen as radical, have now become de rigeur in urban planning circles. Her policies rankled businesses and car-owning New Yorkers used to casually driving into Manhattan and finding a pre-dinner parking spot. Rather than simply manage the city's automobile-focused streets, Sadik-Khan sought to change that biased transportation premise, by adding 400 miles of bike lanes and turning notoriously congested intersections like Times Square into pedestrian plazas. During her time as New York City's transformative transportation commissioner from 2007 to 2013, Janette Sadik-Khan once referred to herself as " basically the largest real-estate developer in New York City." The remark, while maybe somewhat tongue-in-cheek, reflected the sweeping scope and power in which she approached her job.