Sneha Divakaran’s Reviews > Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution > Status Update

They all said they weren’t an Amsterdam to have bike friendly roads. But look at what they did: it only takes visionary leadership.

Our narrow roads are not appreciated enough for their safety and ability to push traffic forward. And our wide roads are not criticised enough for being unsafe, inaccessible by foot/bicycles and plain hot.

The chapters about the transforming roads into public spaces and bike lanes are page turners. It’s a thriller when a city transport commissioner decides to reach out to other departments for creating a public good. Sadik-Khan got her own department, and then some, and then communities to listen to her, and she managed to get protected bike lanes despite an ongoing heated debate over the need for their existence. <3