“Car-based urban areas have adjusted to increases in population only by adding to already obsolete infrastructure. “City streets, built in a different age, barely serve today’s residents,” Sadik-Khan writes. Many cities share the problem that confronted New York: a car-focused infrastructure that was congested, inefficient and dangerous. One central goal was introducing new transportation strategies, such as rapid bus networks and bike lanes, that would make city streets safer and more accessible for all New Yorkers, not just those in cars. Bloomberg’s administration was already developing PlaNYC (pronounced “Plan YC”), a detailed sustainability blueprint for a growing city. In 2007, she became New York City’s transportation commissioner under former Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Sadik-Khan chose transportation and spent the next 16 years working in government and the private sector. Sadik-Khan’s mother answered, “If you want to touch people’s lives every day, you have two choices: Sanitation or transportation.” She called herfmother - a City Hall reporter for the New York Post - and asked what agency she should work in to make a difference. Janette Sadik-Khan was a young lawyer who had joined Dinkins’ campaign to work on social justice issues. The genesis of this book dates back to1989 when David Dinkins was elected mayor of New York City. "Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution"
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