Janette Sadik-Khan
Janette Sadik-Khan is the current Commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation,[1] appointed by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on April 27, 2007, to replace Iris Weinshall.
Sadik-Khan has been a key player in Mayor Michael Bloomberg's efforts to transform New York into a green city under PlaNYC by reducing the city's carbon footprint 30% by the year 2030; providing protected bike lanes or segregated cycle facilities in which parked cars serve as a barrier against moving traffic; improved bus lanes, with bus priority at stoplights; and pedestrian plazas in which portions of streets (including Broadway at Times Square) have become greenspaces free of cars.
[edit] Background
Sadik-Khan received a B.A. from Occidental College (with a major in Political Science), and a law degree from Columbia Law School.[2]
Previously she worked at the Mayor's Office for Transportation under David Dinkins, the Federal Transit Administration,[3] Parsons Brinckerhoff, as a Senior Vice President[4] and was a board member of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign.[5]
Janette Sadik-Khan is married to Mark A. Geistfeld, a professor of law at New York University.[6] She is the daughter of the late Orhan Sadik-Khan, managing director of UBS PaineWebber.[7]
[edit] References
- ^ Janette Sadik-Khan: Inside NYC's Traffic Command Center, 12/05/2011
- ^ Biography of Commissioner Sadik-Khan. New York City Department of Transportation. Accessed May 22, 2008.
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/nyregion/06sadik-khan.html?pagewanted=2&_r=2&hpw
- ^ Neuman, William. "New Transportation Commissioner Is Named", The New York Times, April 28, 2007. Accessed May 22, 2008.
- ^ Mobilizing the Region. "TSTC Trustee is New City Transportation Chief", May 3, 2007. Accessed April 1, 2009.
- ^ New York Times marriage announcement for Sadik-Khan and Geistfeld
- ^ [1]
[edit] External links
- Biography of Commissioner Sadik-Khan
- Video interview on Streetfilms
- Lecture on the politics of human mobility
- New York Magazine profile
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| Preceded by Lenny Rosado |
NY1's New Yorker of the Year 2010 |
Succeeded by Andrew Cuomo |
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