{"id":3194,"date":"2013-05-13T10:22:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T14:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gudphoto.com\/bikenyc\/?p=3194"},"modified":"2013-05-29T15:31:28","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T19:31:28","slug":"bike-portrait-janette-sadik-khan-and-citi-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gudphoto.com\/bikenyc\/2013\/05\/13\/bike-portrait-janette-sadik-khan-and-citi-bike\/","title":{"rendered":"Bike Portrait: Janette Sadik-Khan and Citi Bike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3195\" alt=\"janette sadik-khan citi bike share\" src=\"http:\/\/gudphoto.com\/bikenyc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/janette-sadik-khan-citi-bike-share.jpg\" width=\"860\" height=\"872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gudphoto.com\/bikenyc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/janette-sadik-khan-citi-bike-share.jpg 860w, https:\/\/gudphoto.com\/bikenyc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/janette-sadik-khan-citi-bike-share-295x300.jpg 295w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Janette Sadik-Khan is the Transportation Commissioner for New York City. Under her leadership, the DOT has implemented a vision for New York streets that prioritizes people before automobiles. This has meant new pedestrian plazas (remember Times Square a few years ago?), traffic calming projects, and hundreds of miles of new bike lanes. The net result has been a more human, livable New York City.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>None of these changes have been without controversy or push-back. Any kind of change is always hard, and any change to our streets is immediately visible and elicits immediate reactions &#8211; both positive and negative. But for every sneering tabloid op-ed, there are hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who feel their daily lives made safer and more enjoyable by improvements to our shared public space.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>As bike commuting in NYC has exploded over the last few years, there has been one glaring void &#8211; the lack of a bike share program. We have watched <a style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" title=\"London Bike Share\" href=\"http:\/\/gudphoto.com\/bikenyc\/2012\/04\/24\/london-bike-share\/\">London<\/a>, Paris, Montreal, etc. implement their successful bike share systems while getting nothing here at home. This is about to change with the arrival (finally!) of <a style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" title=\"Bike Portrait: Annie and Dre\" href=\"http:\/\/gudphoto.com\/bikenyc\/2013\/05\/10\/bike-portrait-annie-and-dre\/\">Citi Bike<\/a>, due to launch on May 27. These clunky blue bikes, designed for short trips from one docking station to another, will benefit New Yorkers of all stripes &#8211; even many of my skeptical cycling friends who don&#8217;t see the point and dread the introduction of less experienced riders to the streets.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Not only will bike share be a convenient, cheap, enjoyable way to make short trips around the city, I believe it will go a long way toward legitimizing cycling in the minds of many New Yorkers who still see it as a fringe activity. This is because the bike share stations are literally becoming a part of New York&#8217;s infrastructure. Within a few months they will go from curious novelty to old news &#8211; just another part of the city&#8217;s transportation network. Subway, bus, taxi, bike. You won&#8217;t have to own a bike to ride a bike, and you won&#8217;t have to be &#8220;one of those bike people&#8221; to reap the benefits of our truly bikeable city. This is my hope, anyway, and I&#8217;m personally grateful to JSK and her department for their work in getting us this far.<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp_plus_one_button\" style=\"margin: 0 0 8px 8px; float:right; \"><g:plusone size=\"medium\" href=\"https:\/\/gudphoto.com\/bikenyc\/2013\/05\/13\/bike-portrait-janette-sadik-khan-and-citi-bike\/\" callback=\"wp_plus_one_handler\"><\/g:plusone><\/div><div class=\"pp-fb-like-btn-wrap\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/gudphoto.com\/bikenyc\/2013\/05\/13\/bike-portrait-janette-sadik-khan-and-citi-bike\/\" data-share=\"false\" data-layout=\"standard\" data-width=\"450\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-action=\"like\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Janette Sadik-Khan is the Transportation Commissioner for New York City. Under her leadership, the DOT has implemented a vision for New York streets that prioritizes people before automobiles. This has meant new pedestrian plazas (remember Times Square a few years ago?), traffic calming projects, and hundreds of miles of new bike lanes. 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