6 Travel Challenges for New York City’s New Mayor
Photo Credit: Citibike launched in May, connecting neighborhoods with pedal power. Skift / Rafat Ali
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The city is an urban playground for visitors and locals alike and we'd like to see its new leader take inspiration from his sometimes dictatorial and always opinionated predecessor.
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Yesterday New York City elected its first new leader in 12 years, and mayor-elect Bill De Blasio has some very big, not to mention expensive, shoes to fill.
His predecessor Michael Bloomberg used his dozen years in power to help re-invent the way New York City welcomes travelers and keeps its locals moving in ways that had not been seen since the mega-planning and wholesale urban re-invention (and sometimes destruction) days of city planner Robert Moses.
Bloomberg gave the city bikeshare and bike lanes, pedestrian plazas, the High Line, and taxi-hailing apps. He often did so by giving his transportation commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan extreme powers to make moves under cover of darkness or against the wishes of vocal car-loving neighbors.
We liked it.
But there are a few messes the new New York City mayor is stepping into that we'd like to see tackled to improve the quality of life for both visitors and residents as
