如果香港嘅運房局長有咁積極熱心你話幾好！ What if HKs Transport & Housing Bureau secretary is as passionate as this?! Janette Sadik-Khan was appointed commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation in 2007. Despite her access to a budget of some $2 billion, Sadik-Khan adopted a designers approach to urban innovation: rapid testing and regular iteration. In other words, try an idea to see if it would work; if it didnt, try something else, no harm done. In Times Square, an iconic New York City location visited by 350,000 people every day, this involved the creation of pedestrian zones by painting the asphalt and putting up some lawn chairs. The success of the approach allowed her to create 50 pedestrian zones throughout the city, in the process repurposing 26 acres of space previously allocated to cars. In 2013, she helped to introduce the instantly-popular Citi Bike bicycle-sharing program to the city, making New York one of the cycling capitals in the United States.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 04:49:52 +0000
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