Janette Sadik-Khan at the Antoinette & Vincent M. Dungan Lecture on Energy & the EnvironmentThis is a featured page

We're pleased to announce that Janette Sadik-Khan, New York City's Commissioner of Transportation, will be kicking off the 2010 LA StreetSummit with a pre-summit talk on Thursday March 18th, at 7:30pm at Occidental College's Keck Theater in Eagle Rock.

In New York City, Commissioner Sadik-Kahn has overseen an unprecedented transformation of streets. After generations of auto-centric transportation planning, New York City streets are being re-purposed to move and connect people over cars. Sadik-Khan has implemented numerous popular and innovative projects--from the pedestrianization of Times Square to the construction of over 200 miles of bike facilities in just 2 years--all of which are redefining streets as public places for people to utilize and inhabit in better ways. Her success has gained her world wide notoriety and she will be speaking at the 2010 StreetSummit to ellaborate on her efforts.

Here you can watch Janette give some background on how the streets transformation came about in NYC, primarily from the realization that the only way New York could continue to grow and thrive in the next 25 years was to minimize the city's environmental foot print.

Map / Directions to Keck Theater: Occidental College's Keck Theater is located on Coons Road just south of Campus Road. See map here. College address is 1600 Campus Road, L.A. 90041. Via transit and bicycle, take Metro Gold Line to Highland Park Station, bike west on York Blvd, then north on Campus Road. See campus website for driving directions.


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We're riding to see Janette Sadik-Khan tonight, Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. at the Keck Theater at Occidental College. Meet at the Flying Pigeon LA bike shop (located at 3714 N. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90065) at 6:45 p.m., we ride at 7 p.m.

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