Originally Posted by genericbikedude
Enrique Penalosa is the mayor who made the TransMileno and other awesome sustainable transport projects happen. His term ran out, and he is now a visiting scholar at NYU. He does guest lectures, and has done free consulting work for other cities who want to implement similar things (Pune, India for example). Google his name. He does cool stuff not just in cycling, but in pedestrian infrastructure and mass transit.
All around stand-up chappie.
+1, this guy did some crazy sh*t, as far as how fast he changed Bogota's transportation infrastructure (cars, bus, peds, walking, running, cycling) RBT has finally been introduced here in NYC and the plan is sitting on my desk, I have not read it yet, but this would be the first big change in NYC...