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The Popularity of Livability
The crowds came out at the Transportation Review Board’s annual meeting for a session with the words “livability” and “walking and bicycling” in the title. The full title was “Livability Initiatives: Building Upon Walking and Bicycling Successes.” Maybe it was the star power of New York’s Janette Sadik Khan, who was replaced at the last minute by Linda Bailey, New York City’s Federal Programs Adviser. Maybe livability is now the magic word. In any event, I imagine the organizers will book a larger room for bicycling and walking issues next year.
Darren Flusche
League Policy Director
Flusche joined the League in April 2009 and has a B.A. in history from Syracuse University and a Masters of Public Administration with a concentration in public policy analysis from New York University.
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January 14th, 2010 at 9:23 pm
I was there. I also attended other similarly titled sessions that were also filled to capacity. My question is if there’s so much interest in non-motorized transportation how come it gets such a small slice of the pie? Why do we have senators arguing that biking is not a legitimate form of transportation? There seems to be a pretty big disconnect between what the professionals are interested in and what the government is interested in funding.
January 29th, 2011 at 2:35 am
Its like you read my mind! You appear to know a lot about this, like you wrote the book in it or something. I think that you can do with a few pics to drive the message home a little bit, but instead of that, this is magnificent blog. A great read. I will definitely be back.