Sitting in street furniture provided by the city and surrounded by mazes of freshly painted bike paths, Sadik-Khan shared her plans to make New York a bike-centric city for commuters.
Early one morning, I joined her and a few dozen others for a six-mile bicycle ride promoting the city's new bike-sharing program yes, in this oil-guzzling, no-zoning-laws sprawl of some 600 car-friendly square miles.