And even a place like New York,
where everybody gets around in a New York minute.
You want to get there as fast as possible.
Carving out that space for people is extraordinarily important.
And we worked very, very hard under mayor Bloomberg
to improve the public ground.
And we created 60 pedestrian plazas in just six years.
In every community of the city. Particularly in those areas
that did not have access to greenspace,
parks, any recreational opportunities. And, so,
providing that place of respite, that place to play
is extremely important. And,
also important is that it doesn't need to take decades,
and it doesn't need to take millions of dollars.
You can actually paint the city that you want to see.
Painting, planters, stones,
you can mark it out, and transform a space.
And it's transforming the space that's key.
That's really the most important element there.
And, New Yorkers, I think had been…
they didn't believe that the streets could change.
They've been the same way for so long. They're very skeptical.
And, so, when mayor Bloomberg put out his PlaNYC initiative,
which was this long-range sustainability plan,
a big part of it was improving our streets.
And this is a city that's looking at its fourth groundbreaking
for the 2nd Avenue subways. So
people, understandably, didn't think much was going to happen.
So it was important to show what was possible on the streets.
And so we worked quickly with these very quick change materials.
And you see the results in real-time.
You don't have to wait for years of planning studies,
and years of computer modelling.
You can change your streets now. And the proof
of the performance is actually in the street itself.
And I think it's a very important strategy
to show what can happen.
The typical construction program in New York City
takes five years to get a project
all the way through the process. And if that had been the case,
we would still be talking about the changes in Times Square,
let alone enjoying the permanent construction.
So I think it's a great invitation to action.
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