Advocacy & Safety - Nice column praising N.Y. City's Janette Sadik-Khan

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Banded Krait
09-12-11, 08:04 AM
http://tinyurl.com/3w4nwzr

This link points to a nice column in the Sunday N.Y. Times praising transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan, who has been a very forceful advocate of bicycling and who has sometimes taken a lot of political heat for it.

genec
09-12-11, 08:23 AM
One thing that consistently comes out of these sorts of discussions is the constant cry that cycling facilities don't encourage cycling.

Then I see graphs like this... I have to wonder.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/09/11/opinion/11bruni-grph/11bruni-grph-popup.jpg
mikeybikes
09-12-11, 08:37 AM
One thing that consistently comes out of these sorts of discussions is the constant cry that cycling facilities don't encourage cycling.

Then I see graphs like this... I have to wonder.
Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing "look over there."

cranky velocist
09-12-11, 10:29 AM
The irony here (for me) being how generally un-friendly Rutgers/New Brunswick is toward bike infrastructure. All these decently bike-friendly roads become urban quagmires at the town line, and they spent millions re-constructing Rt 18 while completely ignoring the daily bike traffic a couple years back. Hopefully the city takes the good professor's hint!