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I'm a believer in New Urbanism, and this PBS Weekend Newshour interview with Janette Sadik-Khan, NYC Transportation Commissioner from 2007-2013, gives an example of what can be done to make streets more pedestrian/bike/bus friendly: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/how-nycs-streets-became-more-pedestrian-friendly/

Over the past decade, the streets of New York City have undergone a dramatic transformation. Nearly 400 miles of bike lanes were installed, the largest bike share program in North America began and Times Square morphed from a busy thoroughfare into a packed pedestrian plaza. Hari Sreenivasan sits down with former Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, author of the book "Streetfight: A Handbook for an Urban Revolution," to discuss more on rethinking New York's public spaces.. . . .
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