New York's Streets? Not so mean any more.
TEDx

In this funny and thought-provoking talk, Janette Sadik-Khan, transportation commissioner of New York City, shares projects that have reshaped street life in the 5 boroughs, including pedestrian zones in Times Square, high-performance buses and a 6,000-cycle-strong bike share. Her mantra: Do bold experiments that are cheap to try out.

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Janette Sadik-Khan: Urban Reengineer
Esquire

"She looked nicer than [Robert] Moses, and she had a new way of doing things — using facts and numbers the way he had used will and force. She seemed gentler, too, but she imposed her way almost as much. And whether or not the new officials and the new villagers agreed with her, the intestines of New York City began to quickly unravel once again."

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An Urban Visionary Who Cuts Through the Gridlock
Slate

"Before Janette Sadik-Khan came along, the job of the New York City transportation commissioner was pretty straightforward: Keep the traffic moving. In her tenure, Sadik-Khan has transformed the position. She is transportation commissioner as real estate developer, urban beautifier, bicycle advocate, and environmentalist. "

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Improving Public Health by Making Cities Friendly to Walking and Biking
JAMA Internal Medicine

Our nation's most unheralded public health crisis isn't an exotic virus, or a malady transmitted from bugs nestled in our walls or mattresses, and there aren't any viral ice-bucket challenges to eliminate it. The way that our cities are designed is killing us, right down to the very streets that we walk, drive, work, and live on.

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Taming New York's Streets
NBC | Rock Center with Brian Williams

Janette Sadik-Khan, New York's [former] transportation commissioner, has something else that's rare in the normally mundane world of traffic management: a touch of glamour.

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A Plea for Fifth Avenue
The New York Times

Creating public plazas out of streets physically embodies democracy in cities. It gives people room to reflect on their civic institutions instead of being herded along.

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Bicycle Visionary
The New York Times

If a city believes that biking is part of a better future, it must sometimes muscle through a reluctant, rocky present.

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Pleasures of Life in the Slow Lane
The New York Times

A Bike-Lane Perch for the Urban Show: Janette Sadik-Khan, transportation commissioner for New York City, leads a two-wheeled tour of the city’s controversial bike lanes.

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A Streetcorner Serenade for the Public Plaza
The New York Times

"As more and more educated Americans, especially younger ones, are looking to move downtown, seeking alternatives to suburbs and cars, they’re reframing the demand for public space. They want elbow room and creative sites, cooked up by the community or, like the plaza program, developed from a democratic mix of top-down and bottom-up governance."

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Turning the City's Wheels in a New Direction
The New York Times

New York’s transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan, has helped reimagine the city’s streets and how pedestrians, cyclists and drivers hit the road.

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A Nutty Idea for a Crazy Town:
Bike Share Blossoms in NYC
The Wall Street Journal

"You had to be a little unhinged and adventurous to have the big vision that Sadik-Khan, New York City's transportation commissioner, brought to this unruly madhouse of a city."

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Pavement as Lab
New York Magazine

How New York streets are an engine of urban invention.

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Uber's Dishonest Data Dance
NY Daily News

Uber has a transportation data problem. This means that New York City has a transportation data problem.

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Dynamic Duos:
Michael Bloomberg and Janette Sadik-Khan
on the Future of Walking, Biking and Driving
Fast Company

From streets to parks to ubiquitous blue bikes, the city that never sleeps has been reenergized by thoughtful—and controversial—design experiments.

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How Janette Sadik-Khan Improved NYC
Business Insider

"The streets have become places to have fun."

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