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How Cyclists Won the New York City Bike Wars | Bicycling Magazine

Submitted by Brent Hugh on Fri, 03/18/2016 - 12:11pm

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If you’re a New York City cyclist—or an outsider clued in to media coverage of bike controversy—then you’ll no doubt remember the citywide backlash against bike lanes in early 2011.

Janette Sadik-Khan, NYC’s transportation commissioner from 2007 through 2013, recently published an excerpt from Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution—her new book about successfully navigating the Great Bikelash—in New York Magazine. She describes the period of extreme anti-bike sentiment as “the toughest months I’ve ever endured professionally.” From the moment Sadik-Khan took office, she sought to overturn the transportation status quo and make New York City more like Copenhagen. New parking-protected bike lanes went in all over the city and were as controversial as they were cheap to build.

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How Cyclists Won the New York City Bike Wars | Bicycling Magazine

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