Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Enrique Peñalosa

Thursday’s Transpo Conference: A Call for Reform

By Alec | Oct 17, 2006 | 8 Comments

While former Bogota Mayor Enrique Peñalosa and DOT Commissioner Iris Weinshall got most of the attention for their keynote speeches at last week’s transportation policy conference, much of the day’s real intellectual ferment took place in the five separate breakout sessions that convened before lunch. The groups were organized as follows: Subways and Commuter Rail […]

Live-Blogging the Manhattan Transpo Policy Conference

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 12, 2006 | 19 Comments

I’m up at Columbia University covering Borough President Stringer’s Transportation Policy Conference, live: 10:40 am: Enrique Peñalosa, the former mayor of Bogotá, Colombia is the keynote speaker. In only one three-year term as Mayor, Penalosa revolutionized the transportation system and public spaces of his city of 7 million (Mayors only get one term in office […]

Important Manhattan Transportation Forum on Thursday

By Glenn McAnanama | Oct 10, 2006 | 4 Comments

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer is holding a day-long forum on Manhattan’s transportation future. Enrique Peñalosa, former Mayor of Bogota, Colombia, will be the keynote speaker. This should be a great event. Peñalosa is the inspiring and visionary politician who transformed his city of 7 million into a model for sustainable urban transportation. In recent months Peñalosa […]