http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: NewYork Segregation Pedestrianisation - Recent Topics en Tue, 19 May 2026 08:37:32 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16151#post-214027 Fri, 11 Mar 2016 14:23:07 +0000 PS 214027@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>As referenced in the Roseburn to Leith thread, here's a really good article on Janette Sadik-Khan's work in New York:<br /> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/11/cycling-fights-new-york-mean-streets-janette-sadik-khan">Streetfighting woman: inside the story of how cycling changed New York</a></p> <p>Lots of pertinent stuff in there:<br /> <em> “Transportation is not an ideology, it’s not a left or right thing. It’s about taking a look at the capital asset we have and using it in the most effective way possible. </p> <p>For so long the way we measured transportation, the way we measured our streets, had been about the flow of traffic, how fast was traffic going, which ignores all the other ways a street is used.</p> <p>Our streets have been in this kind if suspended animation. They’re seen as there for all time. The result is that you’ve got dangerous, congested, economically under-performing streets. That strikes at the heart of the liveability and competitiveness of a city.”</em></p> <p>The book sounds good. </p>