A smart city isn't one with futuristic or flying cars, it's one where you don’t need to drive in the first place. After a century of building cities around the car, the transportation revolution will be reclaiming streets & redesigning them around people.
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Janette Sadik-Khan
@JSadikKhan
Author, Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution. Principal with and former NYCDOT commissioner #STREETFIGHT
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There is no such thing as a bad city for cycling, only bad infrastructure. Streets are safer with more people, not with more gear.
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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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A new city is born between the lanes. With superblocks and transformative road reclamations, Barcelona Mayor shows the world that the greatest cities of the 21st century won't be the ones we imagine but the ones we build. lavanguardia.com/local/barcelon
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Three years ago, the pandemic silenced the world's streets. What brought cities back to life wasn't the return of the car but the return of people. While some cities have moved on, others never looked back
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The transportation truth is out there—and she's riding an electric bike. With half of trips less than 3 miles, cities need walkable, bikeable, transit-friendly streets, not hyperloops, tunnels or futuristic visualizations. thedailybeast.com/forget-tesla-a
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How do you say streetfighter in Spanish? Bogotá Mayor . Her year of action starts with metro & bus expansions, superblocks and plans to transform Carrera Septima from a highway into a green corridor. septimaverde.gov.co/#renders
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By reimagining old roads like Cass Street, Tampa Mayor is bringing new lanes and new life to city streets, showing the possibilities for cities everywhere. mailchi.mp/c0171a54c082/c
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There are many conspiracy theories out there but the real conspiracy is designing cities so you have no alternative but to own one. How else to explain that 92% of US households and 78% of UK households own a car?
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In a nation where the car is the sole transportation choice for most people and where transportation agencies are set up to build highways, is it surprising that all our traffic solutions look like roads? The only winning play is not to create new demand
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When you look at a street, you see not only what it is today, you see the outmoded, car-focused future envisioned by city planners generations ago. Updating streets with more more human-powered transportation choices is the challenge for a more urban age. domusweb.it/it/speciali/do
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Many have been too busy reading Elon Musk's Tweets to notice that electric bikes aren't the future of transportation in cities, they already represent a new status quo. With half-billion bike share and e-scooter trips taken since 2010, the future is now.
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Trash course! Garbage bags packed neatly into street containers helps clear sidewalks, curb rats and ease pickups. In a city piled with garbage dunes, this trash collection pilot is enough to make you say, "This is the best thing that ever happened to us"
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The best time to have read Walkable City was 10 years ago. The second-best time is today.
Honored to pen the foreword for this important work's 10th anniversary edition.
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IT’S HERE!!!
Today is the day: The 10th Anniversary of Walkable City has arrived!
With an introduction by @JSadikKhan and 100 new pages of update by me.
Get yours while they last!
us.macmillan.com/books/97812508
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Safety for me and not for thee: The increasing size and weight of the SUV isn't a mark of personal safety on the road, it's a dangerous blind spot for everyone else, measurable in soaring pedestrian and cyclist deaths.
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After a decade of trolling the bike trolls, we say farewell to , one of the original streetfighters.
The fight often leaves one not knowing whether to laugh or cry. Born during the bikelash, they made you do both.
Ride on . You'll never bike alone.
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Fellow All-Powerful Bicycle Lobbyists, after nearly 10 years of forcing our agenda upon cities and helpless drivers it is time to move on. As of today, this account is retired. (Not "re-tired" as in putting new tires on a bike, but "retired" as in "retired.")
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Outdoor dining didn't just bring the city to life during the pandemic, it was an economic success story. New research shows that building street life builds community wealth during a public emergency and can help cities recover.
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Walkers beware: Honesty in street design would reveal that, in the absence of safe street design, she who laughs last is usually not a pedestrian.
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There will be bikes. BICI marks a new stage in the global cycling revolution—supporting, advising and inspiring the world's next generation of bike lanes. You city's journey could start here.
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To see the future of cities, look to the streets of Paris,
City of bikes
School streets
Green streets
People streets.
Mayor & Deputy Mayors and are restoring the city by restoring people to their rightful plâce.
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If you want to change the world, you can start by creating a bike lane. Announcing BICI, a partnership of and , offering 10 cities grants up to $1M to build the next generation of innovative cycling infrastructure.
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A big step for a state, a giant leap for cities. California rolls back a pillar of 20th-century urban planning by abolishing rules that require parking with every building project, making it legal for cities to be cities again.
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NACTO is back! These are the cities—and the people—who adapted, innovated and inspired during the pandemic, and who are redefining transportation today. Applause for Mayor for bringing #NACTO2022 to Boston and for flexing the power of bikes and buses on its streets.
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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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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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To transform a city, start with a bike lane. Dreaming of electric and driverless cars distracts us from building the cycling infrastructure we need today.
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New NASA imagery shows that the answer to street life, the universe and everything else has been written in the heavens the whole time. The fault is not in our stars but in our streets.
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The Milan miracle: 250,000 sq ft of street space converted into 38 community piazzas in less than three years. Half of residents now live w/in walking distance of new, active public space. Milan reclaims roads and recovers an entire city for its people.
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Arts-driven street designs can brighten lives—and save them. European cities have until July 11 to apply for the Asphalt Art Initiative, giving up to 20 cities the resources to reimagine dreary roads as vibrant neighborhood galleries asphaltart.bloomberg.org
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You can't drive on a sidewalk. You can't drive in a bike lane either. London's camera enforcement of cycle lanes adds a missing layer of safety to streets and challenges other cities to do more.
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Hey New Jersey Turnpike Authority, the 20th century called and said it's time you've moved on. After 70 years, the turnpike is a monument to congestion, inefficiency and squandered resources. politico.com/newsletters/ne
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London Loves...a quiet street. Despite controversy & politicization, London's low-traffic neighborhoods were effective & popular. study finds more cycling, less driving, and that people-friendly streets aren't as divisive as the headlines.
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After the deadliest year on NYC streets and roads nationwide in nearly a decade, city officials must still beg state legislators for the power to enforce speed limits. This sad ritual reflects the cars-without-consequences orientation of states nationwide
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Crossrail adds 10 new stations, 42 miles of track, and 10% more passenger capacity—increasing London's economic capacity by much more. Former NYC transit chief Andy Byford is the Train Daddy who could.
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Life imitates art, and art saves lives. New data shows that public art =
⬇️50% in bike & pedestrian crash rates
⬇️37% in injuries
➕safer crossings.
These aren't just pretty designs, they're powerful safety tools. fastcompany.com/90745296/the-r
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Today, the e-mobility market, tomorrow the street! Electric bikes keep outselling electric cars even though city streets aren't built for them. If cities responded with safe lane networks, e-bikes could beat all car sales.
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Happy Earth Day to those who celebrate. To those who don't, here's a bike lane, a bus lane and some room to walk to get you started.
If you love the planet, learn to love your streets, and fight for them—the future depends on it. #EarthDay
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Popular project, toxic politics. Despite controversy, poll shows strong support for California high speed rail. We should follow the money, but also follow the people and invest in the future they want—they are usually a step ahead of the press and pols.
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All the world's a stage and every street a potential canvas. 's #AsphaltArt Initiative expands in Europe with new grant opportunities for 20 cities to paint their streets and transform their neighborhoods. Learn more at:
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The Great Pandemic Reset Continues: SF mayor recommends permanently banning cars from a park road pedestrianized in 2020. NYC's Central Park went car-free in 2018. Driving through a park is a personal convenience. A park without cars is a public service.
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The only people powerful enough to defeat city traffic are those who don't need to drive. Welcome to the real transportation revolution,
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