Janette Sadik-Khan: New York's streets? Not so mean any more
Janette Sadik-Khan: 紐約街道? 唔會再咁差啦
As commissioner of the NYC Department of Transportation under the Bloomberg administration, Janette Sadik-Khan was responsible for the smooth running of a New York that hides in plain sight ... the streets, highways, bridges, signs and lights. Full bio
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包括本身嘅街道
生活質素、基礎設施嘅效率
先至令車輛可以快速行駛
就係時代廣場
規模更加大嘅方法
好重要嘅一部分
全球前十名嘅零售集中地
再唔係零和遊戲
啲人好快佔用咗個空間
一個大型、富爭議嘅計劃
我哋都有同本地公司
一個重大支持者
Grand Avenue 嘅商店連埋一齊
Grand Avenue 嘅舖頭做生意
我哋做咗同樣嘅嘢
一個污糟、廢置嘅停車場
用油漆同臨時物料完成佢
唔喺電腦模型入邊
50 個新嘅行人專用區
應用到我哋嘅單車項目裏邊
有保安措施嘅單車徑
有保安措施嘅單車徑
呢啲單車徑起緊
最受爭議嘅土地 」
見到呢啲調查結果都好開心
用紐約城市單車系統
都可以睇到租單車踩嘅人
就好似左邊嗰個男人咁
應用到我哋巴士上面
亦係最慢嘅巴士團隊
踩住城市單車嘅單車
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Janette Sadik-Khan - City transportation expertAs commissioner of the NYC Department of Transportation under the Bloomberg administration, Janette Sadik-Khan was responsible for the smooth running of a New York that hides in plain sight ... the streets, highways, bridges, signs and lights.
Why you should listen
Janette Sadik-Khan was appointed commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation in 2007. For six years, she managed nearly 5,000 employees and was responsible for the operation and management of some 6,300 miles of streets throughout the city's 5 boroughs.
Despite her access to a budget of some $2 billion, Sadik-Khan adopted a designer's approach to urban innovation: rapid testing and regular iteration. In other words, try an idea to see if it would work; if it didn't, try something else, no harm done. In Times Square, an iconic New York City location visited by 350,000 people every day, this involved the creation of pedestrian zones by painting the asphalt and putting up some lawn chairs. The success of the approach allowed her to create 50 pedestrian zones throughout the city, in the process repurposing 26 acres of space previously allocated to cars.
In 2013, she helped to introduce the instantly-popular Citi Bike bicycle-sharing program to the city, making New York one of the cycling capitals in the United States.
Janette Sadik-Khan | Speaker | TED.com