NYCDOT’s 2008 Sustainable Streets Strategic Plan promised an innovative transportation policy that would deliver more varied and safer streets, improved mobility, more travel choices and progress on environmental sustainability. DOT’s plan elaborated on Mayor Bloomberg’s
call in PlaNYC 2030 for a thriving, world–class 21st Century city based in part on more efficient transportation and a revitalized public realm.
DOT has not only delivered on this promise, it has created a new template for transportation policy that is being discussed and emulated across the world. During the past six years, NYC DOT has undertaken and implemented the most thorough rethinking and implementation of urban transportation priorities and streetscape design in a large American city in several generations.
