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Category Archives: Gender
Importance of Gender Parity in Transport Planning and Policy
Posted in 2012, behavior, Gender, Global South, Governance, leadership, New Mobility, Old Mobility, World Streets
Tagged Equity
La femme est l'avenir de l'homme
The French poet Louis Aragon told us some two generations ago that "Woman is the future of man". And if we had any doubts about that as we enter into 2012, we have today before our eyes this exceptional, moving photograph of a street demonstration yesterday in which several thousand brave women marched through central Cairo in an extraordinary expression of anger over images of soldiers beating, stripping and kicking female demonstrators in Tahrir Square. Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Deep democracy, empowerment, Gender, leadership, Women
IV. The Female Quotient: Next steps on World Streets – Leadership Profiles
After the first article in this series appeared in these pages on July 27th, more than fifty people from a dozen countries responded with suggestions and nominations for profiles of outstanding women who through their work, character and originality are, quite literally, shaping and re-shaping the transportation agenda. Based on that strong response, their quality and the evident interest in the topic, we have decided to see if we can work with those making these nominations to provide a series of leadership profiles to improve the international visibility concerning the contributions that women are making in the field at all the key levels involved. Continue reading
Posted in Cars, Equity, Gender, leadership, Male values, Pattern break, Women
III. The Female Quotient. Women shaping the future of transport in cities: Who, how, where?
29 July interim progress report:
This off-the-cuff collaborative brainstorm is proving a pure learning experience. We started out with a single long-held idea: i.e., the importance of getting all aspects of the sustainable transport planning and policy establishment on to a gender-level footing. And against that understanding we set out on Tuesday to see if we could, with a little help from our friends, come up with a convincing list identifying a certain number of outstanding women leaders working in our field who, though their excellent preparation, their strong convictions and their courageous pioneering actions, are literally redrawing the new mobility map (and the mental maps) of our cities. And all that at a level of excellence that captures the attention of others in other places, and inspires them to study, emulate and perhaps even to surpass the original project, approach and policies. Continue reading
Posted in Equity, Gender, Male values, Mayor/local govt, Mediation, Mental maps, Women
II. The Female Quotient. Women Shaping the Future: What are the criteria for measuring impact?
There has been a refreshingly enthusiastic reaction to our posting yesterday asking about the general deficiency of information on women leaders in the field of sustainable transport in cities. But one note came in from the prolific environmental educator and recognized policy adviser Elizabeth Deacon challenging us in these exact words: "I assume you think there are in fact women who have had an impact. But I then must also assume that your comments have gone unheeded. At the same time, one has to wonder what the criteria are for measuring "impact" – do you know???" Fair question. Continue reading
I. The Female Quotient. There are no women in the world who are shaping the sustainable transportation agenda? (Apparently)
I wonder if I am the only person in the world who gets upset at this:
I am from time to time approached by groups and publications with in-progress lists identifying whom they see as the most influential people who are through their work and efforts shaping the sustainable transportation agenda, which they then ask me to comment, add to, etc. Now what is to me most striking about these lists is that on almost all occasions they invariably consist not only of outstanding people, but almost entirely of names of males. Continue reading
Posted in Equity, Gender, leadership, Male values, Pattern break, Women
Women2Drive: A Day to be remembered in The Kingdom and beyond.
It is a rare day that World Streets comes out in favor of cars in cities. But even that of course is not quite true. At best there will be plenty of cars in our cities, but they will not be parked and they will be chauffeuring not just their drivers but offering affordable services to flexible groups of people safely and efficiently. Great way to get around when you get it right.
And getting it right is the theme of the day today in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where, as you all surely are aware, a few – we will possibly never know the exact number – Saudi women have decided that they have a rightful place in society, in the public space, and that this also includes being behind the wheel when they need to get somewhere. And today is their great day: Women2Drive is social media-driven campaign and sisterhood project in which a certain number of intrepid women are getting behind the wheel and defying the Kingdom's long ban on female drivers. Here is a fine article from the New York Times introducing the topic, and for more we and our readers will be adding more in the days to come.
La femme est l'avenir de l'homme. Or in English: Go for it Sisters. Continue reading
Cycles of Change: Pedaling to Empowerment in Dhaka
Bangladeshi women face significant barriers from family, neighbors and society in getting on a bike a riding around town in bright daylight. Freedom of mobility is seriously curtailed in Dhaka if women don't feel safe to travel independently in their own city. Over 35% of female commuters in Dhaka depend on a cycle rickshaw and as more major roads ban these rickshaws, daily mobility for women is threatened furthermore. Arohi's tagline: "Pedaling the way to empowerment" summarizes the links that we plan to draw between cycles, mobility and empowerment. Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Beautiful City, behavior, Cyclists, Equity, Gender, Global South, Women
To fix Sustainable Transport: Ensure Full Gender Parity in all Decision and Investment Fora (QED)
Today is International Women's Day. And not only that, 2011 marks the one hundredth anniversary of this great and necessary idea. So what better occasion for World Streets to announce publicly, loudly and yet once again our firm belief that the most important single thing that our society, our nations and our cities could do to increase the fairness and the effectiveness of our transportation arrangements would be to make it a matter of the law that all decisions determining how taxpayer money is invested in the sector should be decided by councils that respect full gender parity. We invite you to join us in this challenge and make it one of the major themes of sustainable transport policy worldwide in 2011. Continue reading
Posted in 2011, Activities/Events, editorial, Equity, Gender, New Mobility, Old Mobility, pattern recognition, Women, World Streets
What is the best way to teach an adult to cycle?
Sustainable transport cannot be separated from sustainable cities. Nor sustainable cities from sustainable lives. Here is a small project from Sweden that takes as its goal to teach people how to balance and move safely around on a bike. But who in Sweden cannot climb on a cycle without a thought and toddle off? Well, among others immigrant women coming from Africa and the Middle East who find themselves living in this very different culture in which they are free to cycle like everyone else. Continue reading
Interview: Sharing is important on the World's Streets
On a cold gray Paris winter day Ms Lesley Brown, editor of Mobility magazine, came to World Streets to interview the editor about his noisily stated views on the importance of sharing in the future of the transport sector. Her article made it into the pages of Mobility on 20 January, which you can read in the original here or just below. Continue reading
Posted in Gender, interview, P2P, Policy, Share/Transport, Sharing, World Streets
Tagged Sharing
On the road with one of Cairo's first female taxi drivers
We cannot of course be sure if you are following all of our web of key themes that together create the bedrock of World Streets, but two of these that are most important to us are (a) the importance of "pattern change" and, of course our old friends will say, (b) the role of women as not just passive passengers in a system designed by and mainly for men, but also active drivers of the changes that we now need to put in place to have mobility systems which are both sustainable and just as well as efficient. With this in view, let's share with you this morning a very short video just in from the BBC in which one of Cairo's new female taxi drivers shares with us some of her views on her job and the attitudes it evokes in the people around on the street. Continue reading
Gender, Economic Integration and Cross-Border Infrastructure Development
We do not often provide coverage of conferences and their output, however World Streets is strongly committed to the concept of taking women's needs as the prime target, the defining metric of transport policy and practice in cities and in rural areas. (If you click to http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/category/women/ you will be taken to other articles in this W/S series and campaign.) Continue reading
Posted in Equity, Gender, Global South, Japan, Women
Why Women Bike . . . and Why They Don't
To follow up on yesterday's piece by Janice Turner on "dull cycling" in the UK, the ever-stylish biker April Streeter reports from Portland on a survey of why women in the US cycle, and why they do not. (And if you are a female cyclist and have views on why women cycle, or perhaps do not, in your country, let us hear from you too.) Continue reading
International Women's Day . . . and World Streets
Today is the ninety-ninth anniversary of the first International Women's Day, a day well worth celebrating. And while we are at it a perfect occasion to remind ourselves of what we need to be thinking about and trying to do over the next twelve months to make sure that when 2011 and that important 100th anniversary roll around, we have made our own best effort for a better and brighter future for all. Because. . . women hold the key to the future of not only sustainable transportation but also to a sustainable and just world. It's that simple. Continue reading
Lessons from COP15 : Staring the challenge in the eyes. Three Failures – Three new beginnings
It's close to midnight on this fateful Friday the 18th, as COP15 suddenly trudges unfulfilled sadly into our past. And as I sort through the debris, I am struggling to figure out what might be the main lessons of this experience. Let me share with you my late-night thoughts concerning three event-shaping failures, or at least stark short-comings which I suggest we will all do well to learn from. After all we have the planet waiting for us. Continue reading
Posted in 2009, climate, editorial, Gender, leadership, non-drivers, Old Mobility, strategic planning, support, Women, World Streets, young people
COP15: Radio France interviews World Streets Editor
As part of the massive media effort underway in France in support of the Copenhagen initiative, the editor of World Streets was invited by Ann-Cécile Bras of Radio France International this morning to share his views and reactions to the COP15 process and what might come next. His principal theme: "The problem is not the problem. The problem is the 'solution'." Follow the podcast here. Continue reading
Posted in 2009, climate, Gender, media, non-drivers, Women, World Streets, young people
"Boys will be boys." And why it is important to change this now
Editorial: In the triple nexus that is the defining concern of World Streets – namely, mobility, land use and climate – we have to be ready to take stock and face up to the reality that most of the problems we face today in each of these areas are the result of the domination of an "old order", a certain way of seeing and doing things. What have we got wrong? What can we do about it? And what might this mean to COP15 and beyond? Continue reading
COP15? One thing that can change the debate right now!
To make a significant difference in COP15 . . . what is the ONE BASIC THING we could do right now to change the game, the rules, so that our planet has a reasonable chance. Something deep and fundamental. Something that upsets the old order that has failed us for so long. Continue reading
Posted in 2009, climate, Gender, leadership, Male values, politics, Women, World Streets
Winning the World Climate Game: Brainwork challenge
Let's assume that the world climate negotiations in general– and all in the run-up to COP15 in December and its aftermath — need a shot in the arm, a game-changer, in order to begin to break a deadlock that has gone on all too long at huge cost to the planet and future generations. Do you accept this as something worth at least considering? If so . . .
After having observed closely this largely failed process for many years, here is one thing I have concluded about our dilemma:
The challenge (the planet) is clearly a lot bigger than the problem-solving apparatus we have put in place to deal with it. Does that seem about right to you?
So what about this as an analogy to stimulate our thinking? We are trying to play a game, say like tennis. We have a ball, net, court, lines, etc. Should be easy enough, eh?
However, in the climate case the ball (the planetary challenge) is clearly far bigger than the court (the existing problem solving frame) into which we need to hit it. Oops.
So what is the solution? Obviously to turn it into something that is not a travesty, and at least possible, we would have to redraw the court, somehow reshape and redimension the problem solving process.
(Of course if we want to shrink the ball, i.e., do less for the planet, we can do that too. In fact, that looks kind of familiar.)
How might we handle this challenge in the case of the climate process? What could be the game-changer(s) that would allow us to have a shot at winning.
This is to invite your suggestions as to ONE BASIC THING we could do to change the game, the rules, so that our planet has a decent chance.
Something deep and fundamental. Something that upsets the old order that has failed us for so long.
Please send your nominations and ideas to the email@example.com, and also we invite you to post them directly to the Comment section which you will see just below.
Let's see if we can solve this one by putting our heads together.
The editor
Women as our metric for sustainable lives: Leadership role
Linda Baker makes the point in this article that "Women are considered an 'indicator species' for bike-friendly cities". In World Streets and the New Mobility Agenda we take this one giant step further. For us women are the "defining metric of sustainable transport". Our transportation arrangements do not only have to be planned with them in mind ("thank you very much"), but by them — and, while they are at it, for us all. See our "2010: The Year of the Woman in Transport" at , and more generally you are invited to check out our index reference on this at http://tinyurl.com/ws-women. Come on. It's time! Continue reading
Posted in 2009, behavior, Gender, leadership, sustainability, Women, World Streets
The Year of the Woman in Transport – Part II "Don't treat women equally".
How to move from this fine sounding idea to concrete operational reality? For starters each of us here can take it upon ourselves as an individual commitment first to ponder and then to try to ensure full and fair representation of women in every transportation planning and decision forum we are involved in (starting with World Streets itself). But we cannot afford to stop there. Continue reading
Posted in 2009, Activism, editorial, Gender, Male values, politics, Women, World Streets
2010: The Year of the Woman in Transport (Now, how do we get there and where do we start?)
In this piece the editor of World Streets goes out on a limb and proposes not only that the year 2010 should be formally nominated as "The Year of the Woman in Transportation" but also that something resembling gender parity be established at least as high profile examples in as many places as possible – DURING THE YEAR. (But there is plenty of room for you to express yourself on this too. Vote, comment, make your voice heard )
Admit it. We have made a right mess of our transportation arrangements.
So we should do better, right?
But for us to do better, we cannot content ourselves with more of the same. More roads, higher speeds, heavier vehicles, more time in transit, more fossil fuel burned, more accidents and lives lost, ever more people excluded from fair transportation, and ever longer distances to be traveled, stretching our communities far beyond the breaking point. This old mobility formula is at the root cause of the problems we all face today. Or at least most of us.
Hmm. So it looks like it's time for a leadership change.
Let's take a quick step back first to get a bit of perspective. What were the outstanding characteristics of the leadership that got us into this mess in the first place?
Well, for one, they were almost all male — and political, and pretty well educated, often with engineering, financial and technical skills, and middle class. And yes, just about all drivers and car owners. (That is right, isn't it?)
And even when there were females in place here and there at the level of the policy and investment decisions, the basic behavioral environment, the template, the culture of the process, was and is to this day in almost all corners of the world essentially masculine.
So these good people engineered the system that would serve them best.
This was not a conspiracy as such, far from it, but just a banal result of how the cards got shuffled at the top of the deck.
Fair enough, eh? Or perhaps not?
Now if this is true – and I count on you to contradict me if it is not – it gives us a foundation for moving ahead and doing something about it.
What happens if we decide to use the power of the law to increase the number of women in leadership and decision positions by a very significant amount? And that in a very short period of time?
We have placed a one-minute poll on this just to your left, and invite you to take that minute to register your view on this we think important point. And since you will surely have more to say than just to check one box, we invite you to scroll down to the end of this piece and click the Comment button and let us hear what you have to share with us on this important subject.
But for this to happen there has to be a structured, broadly supported, insistent and effective program to create a consensus around this issue.
And it will help to have, and to know about successful models in which this has at least in part been achieved in different places around the world. (Because there are counties and cities that are starting to do much better. So as part of this worldwide collaborative project let us band together and make their examples more broadly known,)
To this end, World Streets proposes that next year, the year 2010, should be named as the "Year of the Woman in Transport"
And as a step in this direction, we propose to open up the pages of World Streets over the entire month of September to articles and comments on this proposal, with a view to making it our major theme for 2010. If, that is, we can agree that this is something worth pursuing.
In the coming weeks we intend to post a number of articles on various aspects
this, and we invite you to be a part of the solution. Let us hear from, both by way of your poll vote and comment here, and with your ideas for articles, authors, themes and actions to make this a real collaborative accomplishment of our growing group of believers in sustainable transport, sustainable cities and sustainable and just lives.
PS. Let's dedicate this to Mrs. Jacobs.
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Eric Britton is editor of World Streets and has for many years been a vigorous supporter of planning and policy for and by women in a sector that has for far too long been male dominated and as a result shaped by the values of not only males, but males of a certain social, economic and behavioral culture. Time for a change, he says.
Posted in 2009, editorial, Equity, Gender, New Mobility, politics, Women, World Streets
Honk! 6 Reasons The World Needs More Girls on Bikes
- April Streeter, Gothenburg, Sweden, in Treehugger
Photo thedigitel via flickr.
Most bike commuters find that the negative assumptions they had about bike commuting are mostly false. This goes double for women, who might find that riding in high heels is easier than walking in them; a special wardrobe is not necessarily required (though fun); and that biking boosts a sense of freedom in ways a car no longer can. Benefits to women are multiple, and the benefits to society are just as big. Read on for how we all get dividends when women take to their bikes.
Click here for full text of April's Treehugger article:.
Greening New York: Janette Sadik-Khan. Street Fighter
This quite long article is we believe worth a close read, because it provides us with one more example of the professional and leadership skills that are needed to lead the transition from old, in the case of New York from the very old to the New Mobility Agenda and the sustainable cities and sustainable lives that go with it. If there is one key phrase that caught this ear, it is her statement: "I'm radically pro-choice". The Editor
Dana Goldstein | The American Prospect | November 24, 2008 (Fair use)
On Sept. 17, Colin Beavan was riding his folding bicycle down Broadway in Lower Manhattan, near City Hall. Beavan, a writer known as "No Impact Man" for his attempt to reduce his carbon footprint to zero, did not use toilet paper for a year. But let's not get distracted. On that day, Beavan was simply on his bike, making a routine attempt to steer clear of moving traffic and avoid car doors flying open in his path. That was when, by Beavan's account, a black Mercedes veered precariously close to him, prompting Beavan to alert its driver to his presence by knocking on the car's window.
The Mercedes stopped and the driver rolled down the window. "Get your hands off my car, you fucking asshole," shouted Jeff Klein, a New York state senator who represents the Bronx. The story gets better. Klein just happened to have been, last spring, one of the most vocal opponents of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's congestion-pricing plan for New York City. That plan, which died in the state Assembly, would have charged drivers $8 to bring their cars into Manhattan below 60th Street and was enthusiastically supported by environmentalists and public-space advocates nationwide, including Beavan and the nonprofit on whose board he sits, Transportation Alternatives.
No-Impact Man, a first-rate self-promoter, milked the confrontation for all it was worth. He publicized a letter he wrote to Klein, eventually securing a meeting with the state senator. There, Klein apologized to Beavan for his bad language and pledged to revisit the issue of congestion pricing and consider other proposals to make New York streets safer for cyclists and pedestrians.
A happy ending, to be sure. Yet the bitterness of Beavan and Klein's initial encounter is typical of debates between transportation reformers, caricatured as car-hating, overeducated hippies, and their opponents, who portray themselves (sometimes in spite of luxury automobiles) as representatives of the common man. It is ironic, then, that the new national face of the movement to reduce driving and reclaim streets for pedestrians and cyclists is Michael Bloomberg, the finance titan and one-time Republican who spent $75.5 million to become New York City's mayor.
In his first five years in office, Bloomberg was hardly seen as anti-car. But in 2007, his administration rolled out an ambitious plan to reduce New York City's carbon emissions. The city reclaimed auto lanes, turning them over to pedestrians and cyclists, and swore to put every resident in walking distance of green space by 2030. On the transit front, New York is expanding express bus service, creating dedicated bus lanes, and opening several new ferry routes on the East River. Even longtime New York lefties, the sort of people who have decried Bloomberg's fortune-fueled reign for seven years, are impressed.
On the national level, Mike Bloomberg is now recognized as a progressive reformer, and his history as a Democrat turned Republican turned Independent, all for political gain, is largely overlooked. But New Yorkers, whose memories are longer, could hardly have predicted that the most recent iteration of their mayor's chameleon career would be the promotion of a bikeable, walkable city.
What even most local observers don't realize is that the Bloomberg administration's unexpected commitment to these issues is due less to ideological conviction than to the influence of one woman: Janette Sadik-Khan, commissioner of New York City's Department of Transportation.
Sadik-Khan's policies have attracted national attention from transportation reformers, and she has been discussed as a possible transportation secretary in Barack Obama's Cabinet. Last April, state legislators in Albany dealt a body blow to the Bloomberg agenda by scrapping congestion pricing. But Sadik-Khan has pressed on with a slate of piecemeal reforms that are transforming, however slowly, the landscape of New York.
As Ron Schiffman, a former commissioner of New York's De-partment of City Planning, puts it, "She's a guerilla bureaucrat."
On a glaringly sunny Tuesday in late September, Sadik-Khan held a press conference in the Village. It was Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, so much of official New York was on hiatus. Early that morning, Bloomberg, Sadik-Khan's boss, had set off a media maelstrom by leaking that he planned to seek a third term in office, in defiance of the city's charter. The press and public awaited the mayor's official announcement scheduled for later that week.
But Sadik-Khan hadn't cleared her schedule for any of those events. Instead, she was unveiling the finalists in a competition to design a new official bike rack for the city of New York. Over 200 artists had entered the contest, from as nearby as Brooklyn and as far afield as Peru and Italy. The 10 finalist models had been affixed there in Astor Place, and Sadik-Khan playfully showed journalists her favorites. "This one doubles as a bench!" she exclaimed, hoisting herself upon a flat, S-curved rack and swinging her legs girlishly beneath her. Later, chatting with some women from the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum, the co-sponsor of the competition, Sadik-Khan flipped up her charcoal gray dress to reveal spandex bike shorts underneath. "Fashion forward!" she declared, laughing. A young-looking 48-year-old who sports a chic bob with bangs, Sadik-Khan is a bike commuter herself, traveling from her West Village home to her financial district office several days a week on a Specialized Globe.
Amid an economic crisis that threatens the state and city of New York with the loss of 120,000 jobs and $3.5 billion in tax revenues, an event to promote cycling could seem a small-bore distraction. But Sadik-Khan's initiatives are central to the larger Bloomberg agenda. She was appointed commissioner in April 2007, concurrent with the mayor's roll-out of PlaNYC 2030, a proposal to reduce New York's carbon footprint by 30 percent over two decades and make the city an international leader in sustainable urban growth.
The centerpiece of that effort, the congestion-pricing plan, dominated Sadik-Khan's first year in office. The city council approved the plan in a 30-20 vote in March, but Bloomberg and Sadik-Kahn were rebuffed at the state level, accused of attempting to strong-arm the legislature into supporting a policy that benefited Manhattan at the expense of the suburbs and outer boroughs. It certainly didn't help that Sadik-Khan's driver was pulled over and ticketed for illegally running the car's sirens and lights as he sped the commissioner to Albany to lobby for the congestion-pricing bill. (Yes, you can travel by train between New York City and Albany. It takes two-and-a-half hours each way and costs between $72 and $138 round-trip.)
For advocates, the failure of congestion pricing was heartbreaking. In round after round of negotiations, the plan had been tweaked and made less objectionable to the outer-borough and suburban legislators who viewed it skeptically. Suburban commuters would be able to deduct the tax from their daily toll charge, and taxis would have to pay only a $1 fee to enter the cordoned zone. Disabled drivers would be exempted. The major East and West Side highways would be free, as would be bridges and their approaches, even those in Midtown. After all the changes, it seemed that delivery trucks and drivers-by-choice would bear the brunt of the fee, along with the mostly affluent residents living within the pricing zone. After all, commuters had the option of driving to a subway or bus stop outside of the zone and hopping on.
The federal government promised New York City a sorely needed $354 million to support mass transit if the program were approved in Albany. Gov. David Paterson supported the plan, as did state Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, a Republican. Surprisingly, much of the opposition was Democratic. Some legislators claimed they couldn't support congestion pricing if it didn't include a sliding scale for income. Transit advocates suspected an attachment to car culture was the real stumbling block. Regardless, on April 7, state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Democrat who represents Manhattan's Lower East Side, announced that support for the bill was so scarce he wasn't even putting it to a vote.
What happened? In part, Albany politics are just formulated differently than New York City's, where the council is relatively powerless and in thrall to the mayor. Jeff Klein, for example, the Bronx state senator who fought congestion pricing, represents a borough in which every single City Council member supported the plan. But Albany Democrats simply didn't trust Bloomberg and weren't in a mood to support his signature legislative priority. It was difficult for Dems to forget that the mayor was once a Republican when, earlier this year, he donated $500,000 to help state Senate Republicans retain their majority.
Politically, Bloomberg may have also made a mistake in selling congestion pricing primarily as a fix for the budget shortfall facing the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority, when it was really an environmental and public-health initiative. Had congestion pricing passed, the combination of the fees collected and the matching grants from the federal government would have covered only a fraction of the MTA's operating and capital needs, leaving the agency $9 billion in debt. "Congestion pricing was never a choice between a funded system and an unfunded system," says New York state Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, who represents parts of southern Westchester County and was a leading opponent of the proposal.
Whatever the motivations of congestion-pricing opponents, their success in blocking Bloomberg's plan put his national reputation as a can-do reformer in doubt.
PlaNYC is premised on the idea that with New York City's population expected to grow by 1 million over the next two decades, aggressive steps must be taken to increase access to green space and affordable housing, improve public health, preserve and retrofit historic buildings, and fight global warming. Bloomberg introduced the agenda, which contains 127 sustainability initiatives, on April 22, 2007. In the words of City Councilman John Liu, chair of the council's transportation committee, "The mayor became an environmentalist rather suddenly on Earth Day 2007, at a time when there was fevered speculation that he was going to launch a presidential bid."
Indeed, PlaNYC represented an about-face. When Bloomberg was elected mayor in 2001, transportation reformers had high hopes that he would replace Rudy Giuliani's transportation commissioner, veteran New York City bureaucrat Iris Weinshall, with Sadik-Khan — or someone a lot like her. But Bloomberg, then a Republican, chose to keep Weinshall in place. The decision was widely viewed as an attempt to reach out across party lines to Weinshall's husband, Sen. Chuck Schumer. Though advocates say Weinshall was a competent manager, they accuse her of being uninterested in transportation policy and of deferring major decisions to reactionary community boards and traffic specialists, whose primary goals were to move more cars through the streets faster.
Bloomberg's own record on public spaces was far from stellar. An expert hired to direct the Transportation Department's cycling program, Andrew Vesselinovitch, quit in 2006, claiming that Weinshall and Bloomberg rejected most of his ideas and were insufficiently committed to reforming the streetscape. Under the influence of former Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Dan Doctoroff, another Wall Street veteran, the Bloomberg administration had been pushing unpopular proposals to construct massive sports stadiums and apartment towers, replete with thousands of parking spaces, on the far West Side of Manhattan and in downtown Brooklyn. "Here we have the most transit-oriented city in America, and many of Bloomberg's most treasured development plans, at that point, were tied to 750-spot parking lagoons, as if this were the suburbs," says Aaron Naparstek, editor of Streetsblog, which lobbies for "livable streets."
When Weinshall announced her departure from the agency in January 2007, Transportation Alternatives urged Bloomberg to look for a new commissioner in London, which had instituted congestion pricing in 2003. That plan is seen as a qualified success. City carbon emissions were cut by 16 percent. Cycling within the zone increased by a third, bus ridership increased by 14 percent, and for the first time in decades, ridership on the Underground, London's subway system, increased rather than decreased. Though revenues from congestion pricing were less than expected, the tax raised about £100 million annually for London's transit system.
The New York press reported, however, that Bloomberg was not looking overseas. He was choosing between Sadik-Khan and Michael Horodniceanu, both American engineering-firm executives who had served in government. While Sadik-Khan was known as a reformer with a focus on mass transit, Horodniceanu was a former city traffic commissioner who boasted of having managed the largest parking system in the United States. Bloomberg's decision would signal exactly how serious he was about embracing the environmentalist mantle. He ended up appointing Sadik-Khan, of course, and transportation reformers rejoiced.
Sadik-Khan grew up in the New York metropolitan area, the daughter of divorced parents. Her father was a managing director at the brokerage Paine-Webber, and her mother was a writer who covered City Hall for the New York Post. She describes herself as having always been fascinated by the life of cities. After college at Occidental in Los Angeles (where she temporarily took up vegetarianism), law school at Columbia (where she met her husband Mark Geistfeld, now a New York University law professor), and a stint as a corporate attorney, Sadik-Khan decided to go into public service. "I wanted to do something that really touched people's lives every day," she explains. "I was joking with my mom, and she was like, 'Well, there are two choices then. There's transportation or sanitation.' So you know, I decided to focus on transportation."
Sadik-Khan climbed the ranks of the Dinkins administration in the early 1990s, serving as the mayor's principal adviser on mass transit. After a failed attempt to institute light-rail service across 42nd Street, she learned that the Metropolitan Transit Authority and community groups would fight the construction of a surface-level train. (Now she sees dedicated bus lanes as a sort of back-door step toward light rail, mentioning that cities like Bogotá, Colombia, and Curitiba, Brazil, are working toward light rail by reclaiming auto space in this way.)
After Dinkins lost his re-election bid to Rudy Giuliani in 1993, Sadik-Khan hightailed it to Washington, D.C., where she worked for Bill Clinton's Department of Transportation, reforming the bus-manufacturing industry and creating a popular art-in-transit program. She became the Federal Transit Authority's chief financial officer, responsible for a $4 billion capital construction budget. At the close of the Clinton years, Sadik-Khan re-entered the private sector as a senior vice president at the international engineering firm Parsons Brinckerhoff, where she worked until she was tapped by Bloomberg.
As New York City transportation commissioner, Sadik-Khan presides over 6,000 miles of road, 12,000 miles of sidewalk, and the Staten Island ferry, which transports 65,000 people each day. (The MTA manages New York's subways, trains, and buses, and often works in partnership with the Department of Transportation.) She administers a budget of more than half a billion dollars a year. It isn't difficult to imagine Sadik-Khan returning to D.C. — she's wonky. If you ask her a question about transportation, she is likely to answer it in the form of a 10-minute policy brief and cap it all off with a press release. ("We're improving the quality of life, improving the business quality here, and also doing a lot for the environment!") Naparstek of Streetsblog calls Sadik-Khan "a total geek about transportation."
Unsurprisingly, the other geeks adore her. Naparstek, who wrote Honku, a book of haikus decrying car traffic, says, "I know a lot of people who are like, God, that would be a mistake if Janette went back to Washington. We need her to keep doing these things in New York. She could have more of an impact here." Paul Steely White, executive director of Transportation Alternatives, cycled to the bike-rack unveiling wearing a tie adorned with a silk-screened bike logo. He told the press that since Sadik-Khan's appointment, "there really isn't much left for [us] advocates to say." Later he says, "A lot of problems we thought were intractable. She has proven otherwise."
Stuck in a holding pattern on big-picture transportation reform, Sadik-Khan's Department of Transportation has shifted gears. The Bloomberg administration plans to revisit congestion pricing, but in the meantime, the mayor has given his transportation commissioner wide latitude in enacting a host of incremental street reforms. Sadik-Khan's department has reclaimed two car lanes on Broadway, one of Manhattan's most clogged thoroughfares, and turned them into "Broadway Boulevard," an artery of public plazas where pedestrians can lunch or just relax right in the middle of the street — if they find it relaxing to be surrounded by frantic traffic. On Ninth Avenue along Manhattan's West Side, the Transportation Department has instituted New York's first experiment in "complete streets," an idea Sadik-Khan imported from Copenhagen; a new bike lane there is protected from parked cars and traffic by plastic bollards and a buffer zone.
These reappropriations of auto lanes have been called radical and elitist, proving that even in America's largest and densest city, car culture holds powerful sway. In September, the New York Post dubbed Bloomberg "Mike the road hog" and predicted the Broadway Boulevard plazas would go unused during the winter months. In Chelsea and the meatpacking district, where metered parking spaces and an auto lane were lost to the Ninth Avenue bike-lane project, local community boards complained that they were informed of the changes just a week before construction began. Liu, the city councilman, tells me that Sadik-Khan and Bloomberg adhere to a "new, anti-car religion" that will alienate outer-borough residents unless mass transit service is significantly improved and expanded before restrictions are placed on car use.
In actuality, that's exactly what the Department of Transportation is doing. New York City is unlike any other place in America, Sadik-Khan points out; more than half of its residents do not own a car. Of the 28 percent of trips in the city that are made by automobile, most are less than three miles in length. Transportation reformers contend that politicians who oppose congestion pricing, like Jeff Klein, are unduly influenced by their own experience as affluent drivers. The Kleins of the world claim to speak on behalf of the working class, but in truth, advocates say, the neediest New Yorkers don't own cars. They rely almost exclusively on mass transit and live in neighborhoods where auto congestion seriously impacts public health. It is the children of the car-less poor who are diagnosed with asthma at epidemic rates.
"I'm radically pro-choice," Sadik-Khan told me during an interview in her expansive 10th-floor office on Worth Street, where a clock counts down the days left in Bloomberg's second term. "I'm pro-all modes of transportation, not one mode elevated above all others, which I think has been the case in the past. We're really just trying to rebalance our system, bring some acupuncture to what has been a sick body."
Sadik-Khan sees the initial rejection of congestion pricing as an opportunity. "You know, no big idea happens in New York the first time around," she says. "It is almost a benefit that congestion pricing didn't pass, because now we are able to get all these pieces in place prior to the start of pricing."
In an effort to improve transit access and convince legislators that their constituents won't be underserved if they are pushed out of their cars by congestion pricing, Sadik-Khan's department is developing East River ferry service between Manhattan and the exploding North Brooklyn neighborhoods of Williamsburg and Greenpoint. The department is also placing a new focus on improving bus service, creating a dedicated bus lane on 34th Street in Manhattan and instituting select bus service cutting east-west through the Bronx. That route, the first of its kind in New York, features bus lanes, curbside fare collection, and more buses making fewer stops. Currently, New York City has the largest public bus fleet in North America but some of the slowest bus routes. During rush hour in Midtown Manhattan, one can walk from the Hudson River to the East River and beat the cross-town bus. "I can't wish people onto a bus that's moving at two miles per hour," Sadik-Khan admits. "I have to give them service that encourages them to do it."
Transportation reformers believe, perhaps naively, that drivers will change their habits en masse if given the proper service improvements and disincentives (like the congestion tax). One of their goals is to demonstrate just how enjoyable, cheap, and easy life without cars can be. They point to the popularity of Summer Streets, another one of Sadik-Khan's innovations, in which seven miles of East Side roads were closed to cars on three consecutive Saturdays in August. Sure enough, the streets were overtaken by elated pedestrians and cyclists. Smaller-scale road closings took place over the summer in Brooklyn and Queens as well, and Sadik-Khan believes these will become regular features of New York City life, regardless of who succeeds her and Bloomberg.
"I think along with the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and the marathon, Summer Streets is going to be one of those iconic events going forward," she says. Of course, those events, too, involve clearing the streets of cars and reclaiming them for pedestrians.
But environmental priorities haven't completely overtaken Bloomberg's penchant for big-box development. Just a few weeks after Sadik-Khan's appointment and the PlaNYC rollout, the mayor was in court defending the city's right to construct 20,000 new parking spaces in Hell's Kitchen. Sadik-Khan, for her part, avoids speaking about the elements of the Bloomberg agenda that clearly contradict her own stated goals. "I feel very strongly that he put his money where his mouth is," she says of Bloomberg's transportation record.
Much of the Bloomberg administration's energy these days is focused on winning the mayor a third term. If congestion pricing is revisited, it will likely be after the mayoral election of November 2009. And for that effort to be successful, Bloomberg and Sadik-Khan will have to overcome the cultural antagonism between the outer-boroughs and Manhattan, and between the city and its suburbs. They will also have to do a better job of wooing Democratic state legislators.
Sadik-Khan is optimistic, pointing to opinion polls that found 60 percent of New Yorkers support congestion pricing, provided that the funds are used to improve mass transit. "The other piece of messaging that we found works is that people are concerned about obesity, they're concerned about asthma, and they're concerned about their ability to get around," Sadik-Khan says. "And not owning a car will save you $6,000 a year. That's a lot of money!"
Sadik-Khan believes the public, especially since this year's rise in gas prices, is far ahead of its elected representatives on understanding the need to reduce dependency on cars. "I do think congestion pricing is a matter of when, not if," she says. The fact remains that Sadik-Khan's public plazas, bike lanes, and road closing are hardly making a dent in the city's car use; they are more of an inconvenience for drivers than a routine-altering incentive. But there has been some good news; a recent Transportation Department report found that commuter cycling in the city rose 35 percent between 2007 and 2008.
There's little doubt that despite her stated commitment to stay on in a third Bloomberg term, Sadik-Khan is intrigued by the notion of getting back into the transit game at the federal level. She says she likes Obama's transportation agenda (he supports congestion pricing, for example) and will do whatever she can to help his administration. She is already drafting a new national transportation policy as president of the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO), a coalition of transportation czars representing 13 of the nation's largest cities. A key priority is enabling the federal government to directly fund transportation projects in large cities, instead of requiring the money to pass through state capitals like Albany, which often don't prioritize urban interests. Currently, highways are eligible for a greater percentage of federal funding than is mass transit; NACTO would like to change that, as well.
The story of congestion pricing and piecemeal reforms in New York, at least thus far, doesn't provide much in the way of a model for creating a transformative national transportation policy. Still, under Sadik-Khan, New York City transit geeks are feeling better about their movement than they have since Jane Jacobs was organizing the West Village. "So congestion pricing didn't pass, that's true," Sadik-Khan says. "But one of the things it allowed us to do was underscore to the public the importance of looking at our streets differently. There have been lots of things that have changed in New York City in the last 20 to 30 years. Our streets are not one of them. Our streets have really been designed as more utilitarian corridors to get cars as quickly as possible from point A to point B. Now there's a recognition that we can't keep doing that."
And for now, that's progress.
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http://gazetteonline.com/sports/iowa...offensive-line My goal first and foremost is to win as many games as possible and put a ring on my finger, Osemele said. I dont see myself being satisfied unless we win a Big 12 Championship. Thats the only way I see myself taking that jump (to the NFL). Id want to come back the next year and see what we could do.
KO rules.
While on live TV, Ford used a vulgar term to describe a private part of the female anatomy, adding that he was happily married and got more than enough to eat at home.
Thats a football mentality right there. If he can single handedly wear out AC against Iowa, we have a much better chance.
I'm on Twitter too: Tre4ISU Or so I have read.
It's nice to see him setting high goals. Hopefully this team is doing so across the board and has been putting in the work to achieve them.
"There are five real good recruits in the state. We got three of them. One couldnt get into school, and the other went to (the University of) Iowa...which is about the same thing." - Coach Johnny Orr
Originally Posted by yaman3 Thats a football mentality right there. If he can single handedly wear out AC against Iowa, we have a much better chance. I've always liked this picture.
He is going to be fun to watch this year, that is for sure!
Originally Posted by CyForPresident I've always liked this picture. looks like AC is KO's *****!
*****Fearless Leader of the 2012 HawkeyeNation Trolling Invasion***** Originally Posted by Londo If neither Texas and Oklahoma finish in the top 2 and we finish 7th or higher (all in the BXII of course) , I will legitimately cover myself in feathers, tape myself doing the chicken dance for no less than 3 minutes in the Iowa snow, and post the video to CF in a new thread on Dec. 14th. Book it. Quote me. Do whatever you need to do
WOW! Few articles get me excited as this one did. Go KO! Go O-Line and Go Cyclones!!!
Man, I'd hate to be on the dude's bad side (which apparently is anybody playing DE). Stoked he's in Cardinal & Gold. Hope his attitude wears off on the rest of the line!
Originally Posted by CyForPresident I've always liked this picture. Great pic, thanks for sharing!
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Posted Wednesday February 06, 2013, About: Chalk up another 100 losses for the 'Stros
Now, the question is, will the MN Twins still be the worst team in the AL. They have the worst owner, Manager, pitching Coach, I think they will give the Stros a run for their money.
Posted Thursday December 27, 2012, About: Twins ready to pounce on bargains
That's the reason why the Twinks are the worst team, no, possibly the worst Organization in the the AL.
Posted Friday August 31, 2012, About: 'Crazy things' set for Miami shakeup
Yea a direction, 2011 they were 4 point dogs to Houston in week 2, week 1 in 2012 10+ point dogs, yea, there is a direction from really bad to the worst Franchise in football.
Posted Thursday August 23, 2012, About: Philbin won't slam door on Garrard
The question not that the Dolphins will be over or under 2 wins this year, the question, will Philbin be over or under 2 years as head coach?
Posted Saturday April 28, 2012, About: Miami assumes draft's greatest risk
The thing about that, this franchise is considered a joke, do they really have the time?
Posted Thursday April 05, 2012, About: Magic CEO: Van Gundy and Smith will be evaluated
Howard has caught Shaquitis, big men get it playing Center in Orlando, being in better shape than Shaq, it has taken longer for Howard to catch it, first sign is loafing down the court, noticed it last Knick game.
Posted Wednesday February 01, 2012, About: Plax back in New York?
Exactly, the reason there is trouble in the Jets locker room, is because of the Prima Donna wide receivers. When the NFL starts to crash it will be because the public is tired of these spoiled athletes.
Posted Monday September 12, 2011, About: Dolphins player have complained about Sparano's yelling
Sparano is a joke, Ross is a joke, Henne is a joke, the 3 pieces that make for a quality football team, Coach, Owner, Quaterback are all jokes.
Posted Sunday September 04, 2011, About: Dolphins ticket sales worst in 28 years
They haven't made any strides since Shula was forced out, in fact, they did make a fluke leap going from worst to first one year, but that was do to scheduling and injuries to key players on other teams in their division, and after that, continued their trend of mediocrity for the last 17 years. The lack of class of the ownership, is reflected on the lack of class on the field.
Posted Friday September 02, 2011, About: Twins asked closer if he wanted out
The Twins must have the worst GM in Baseball, one horrible bad move after the other the last 2 years.
Posted Friday September 02, 2011, About: Nishioka a major mistake in Minnesota
Yea, what does that have to do with Nishi's poor fundamentals, from pivoting at second to being in the correct cut off point at short, this is a huge mistake on the Twins. They could have spent less money to keep Hardy, who might not have the range of Nishi, but is far better hitter with power and a better arm. The Twins won the lottery on Nishi, that alone should of said something. This is a GM mistake, the Twins have used 2B as a revolving door for years now they are doing it at SS, no wonder their defense stinks.
Posted Thursday August 18, 2011, About: Morneau 'not even close' to former self
Question Morneau's health, then why give up on Young? Unbelievable, one of the worst trades in the teams history, another one, trading for Young; a power pitcher and starting SS that would be an allstar following year. Then give Young away, a power hitter in a slump, who was coming around, when you don't have power hitters, you replace Young with what? He will be a fixture in Detroit.
Posted Wednesday August 10, 2011, About: More money, more problems in Minnesota
What is a small market team doing paying 23 million a year to a player, they should of kept that money paid the small amount it would have been to keep Hudson and Hardy, kept a couple of the bullpen players they let go, and this team might be competing now. They have almost always let their stars walk or trade them, Blyleven, Bostock, Carew, Hunter, Santana, Viola, this is the formula for small market teams, they created it, Cleveland is following it so are the Rays and KC. They should have traded Mauer, and knowing that was going to happen they would not have let Ramos go for Capps, this team would of had a future, not now.
Posted Wednesday August 10, 2011, About: More money, more problems in Minnesota
You are exactly right. This team is a cellar dweller for years, maybe even a decade to come. Look at what they need. Multiple positions in bull pen, power pitchers that don't throw to contact, middle infield, a center fielder that can catch and hit, since they will loose Cuddyer and Kubel, they will also need a right fielder, Valencia to get his head on right, a back up catcher, a back up first baseman and DH if their MVP first baseman makes it back, if he doesn't then they'll need a first baseman. Other than solid pitching, relief pitching, up the middle defense, a 1st baseman, a right fielder, they are in good shape, to compete in a weak division.
Posted Tuesday August 09, 2011, About: Tebow is the QB Miami needs
This is from the Orlando Sentinel, they have positively the worst set of sports writers in the country. The Dolphins are trying to build an offense with speedy receivers that can stretch the field, Tebows main weakness is long ball accuracy, his strength is making something happen underneath, just the opposite of what the Dolphins need.
Posted Tuesday July 05, 2011, About: Twins moving Mauer to 1B
So, Mauer prefers to hit two and three hoppers to second and short instead of HRs? Since last September he has had no power not even extra base power, most of his hits have gone through the infield. Cassilla has more HRs than Mauer, Nishi might even have more doubles than Mauer, who is not hitting for average or extra base power, a punch and judy singles hitting catcher, whose defense and play calling have been questioned, though both were exceptional against the Rays on the 4th, maybe he has been and still is injured.
Posted Sunday July 03, 2011, About: Twins moving Mauer to 1B
Well the Twin are well balanced, in the American League they rank 12th out of 14 teams in hitting, pitching and defense, one of the worst teams in baseball, ten or so games under .500, they have no chance of winning this division.
Mauer has not been a good defensive catcher the last 2 years, his play calling has become suspect, and this is his 8th year he has a total of 81 homers, wouldn't want him as my first baseman with his around .225 batting average and no HRs.
Mauer has not been a good defensive catcher the last 2 years, his play calling has become suspect, and this is his 8th year he has a total of 81 homers, wouldn't want him as my first baseman with his around .225 batting average and no HRs.
Posted Tuesday June 28, 2011, About: Mauer should consider 'first' priority
It is not the first real injury of his career, I believe his rookie year was lost in knee injury, which slowed him, his MVP year was cut short the first month due to injury. The mistake the Twins made was paying him this huge salary then gutting the team, since last September he has been hitting worm killing singles when he has got hits or hitting into a dp. His throws to second have been terrible, and his play calling is finally coming into question, which could be the reason this pitching staff has not improved, they did much better without him.
Posted Sunday June 12, 2011, About: Nowitzki: Wade, LeBron 'childish ... ignorant'
I always thought the same, but down the stretch in the regular season and in the playoffs, I can't remember a superstar whine and complain as much as Wade, and never saw one get as many breaks as him also, I saw at least 7 incidents of complaining that D. Howard would have gotten technicals for.
Posted Sunday June 05, 2011, About: Twins, Mauer considered 'out' clause
Lets see, as a Twins fan, would I rather of had Ramos, Hardy, Hudson, the bullpen that was gutted instead of Mauer and Capps. I think so.
Posted Thursday April 21, 2011, About: Henne set up for success in 2011
What is worst is, now it is a bad franchise.
Bad team is only skin deep, a bad franchise goes right to the bone.
Bad team is only skin deep, a bad franchise goes right to the bone.
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Ah, it's an IPS. I thought $289 seemed overkill for a 24" display until I clicked on it.
quote:During 2009 LG.Display began to develop a new generation of e-IPS panels which is a sub-category of H-IPS. They simplifed the subpixel structure in comparison with H-IPS (similar to cPVA vs S-PVA) and increased the transparency of the matrix. In doing so, they have managed to reduce production costs significantly, aiming to compete with the low cost TN Film panels and Samsung's new cPVA generation. Because transparency is increased, they are able to reduce backlight intensity as you need less light to achieve the same luminance now. This helps keep costs down significantly compared with S-IPS.The main drawback of e-IPS in comparison with S-IPS is that the viewing angles are smaller. When you take a look at an e-IPS matrix from a side, the image will lose its contrast as black turns into gray. On the other hand, there is no tonal shift (as with TN and cPVA matrixes) and the viewing angles, especially vertical ones, are still much larger than with TN. By the way, the contrast drop occurring when the screen is viewed from a side can be compensated by means of special correcting film (A-TW polarizer), but as e-IPS matrices are meant for midrange monitors and this film costs money, most products come without it. Some are actually 6-bit + AFRC modules in fact (as opposed to true 8-bit) which might explain how the costs are kept very low in some cases.Although it's unknown what the "e" stands for here, it's likely that it means "economic" or similar, since these new panels are all about trying to keep production and retail costs low. With lower retail costs there is of course an added risk of inter panel variance, which may lead to some quality control issues in some models.»www.tftcentral.co.uk/articles/co···tm#e-ips
We discussed most of these issues a year or so ago when the U2412M first appeared on Days of Deals. It comes down to the fact that it offers a particularly attractive price/performance for the average user looking for IPS-panel performance in a modern LED-backlit design. The U2410 is mainly a contender where the extended colour gamut is required. A similar tradeoff now exists in the 27" space with the release of the U2713HM alongside the U2711.
An e-IPS panel for all intents and purposes is no different than an MVA/PVA panel when it comes to contrast shifts from a far angle. If I had to chose between the two, I'll take a VA for its superior contrast ratio over an e-IPS.
I also found the comment about keeping costs down significantly by being able to reduce backlight intensity curious because the U2412M is an extraordinarily bright monitor, so much so that I have the brightness at 25% as my standard setting. High transparency or not, they certainly didn't skimp on backlighting.
The fact that the U2412HM is so bright is a testament to the transparency of those panels.Still, having owned e-IPS and AMVA panels, I'll take the AMVA for image quality any day.


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½ cup lime juice
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