» Taking Back the Streets
New York profiles Janette Sadik-Khan, the city’s transportation commissioner, whose projects include closing stretches of Broadway to cars next week and turning them into pedestrian plazas.
Between her plans for Broadway and her smaller interventions scattered across the city, Sadik-Khan has unwittingly touched off New York’s latest culture war, a street fight of sorts. To her supporters, she is a heroic figure of vision and inspiration—the woman who tamed the automobile and made the city safe for bicyclists. To her opponents, she’s the latest in an extensive line of effete, out-of-touch liberals: the hipster bureaucrat.Can we get one of her in L.A.?
