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Interview with Enrique Peñalosa

Eckerson Jr., C. (2007) (12.07 min video) NYC Street Renaissance, StreetFilms.org
Dr Peñalosa, Ex Mayor of Bogota and bicycle advocate.  Dr Peñalosa changed the way Bogota treated its non-driving citizens by restricting automobile use and instituting a bus rapid transit system which now carries a 1/2 million residents daily. Among other improvements: he widened and rebuilt sidewalks, created grand public spaces, and implemented over one hundred miles of bicycle paths.

TOPP Executive Director Mark Gorton discusses with Penalosa some of these transportation achievements and asks what the future could hold for NYC if similar improvements were made here.
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