I finally re-found a story that I referred to in Bureaucracy vs. Balls and Hey Victoria, Go Back to Kindergarten!
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Summary of NYC Department of Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan's (more on her, soon) talk in LA about the rapid and progressive changes happening in NYC, right now.
To me, this relates to any city in the world.
The real message of the evening was that Angelenos, especially our government leaders and transportation bureaucrats, shouldn't bescared of trying something new. After all, the transportation planning for Los Angeles up to now clearly hasn't worked...
As Sadik-Khan talked about how easy it is to make some of these changes, some in the room got a little queasy. It's easy to paint bus-only lanes? Sorry, that takes decades of studies and environmental reviews. NYCDOT has a goal of fifty miles of new bike lanes ever year? Well, here in L.A. we can bring a Sharrows pilot program on a couple of streets to fruition a mere three years after the city starts studying it. [< being ironic]
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