Please, Mr. Mayor. Don’t fire your fine transportation commissar, er, com missioner, the esteemed Janette Sadik-Khan.
We know we have been slightly critical in the past of this fine public servant — as fair-minded and receptive to outside input as she is.
And we know how you react to newspaper disapproval of your commissioners. You’ve been plenty clear about that.
“I’ve always said that if you want lifetime employment in our administration, you just get The Post to demand that I fire you,” you said last December.
Now, we don’t think we ever demanded that you fire Sadik-Khan. And if we did, we, ahem, certainly didn’t mean it.
So what if she didn’t call that snow emergency at Christmas time? What’s a few hundred miles of snow-clogged streets among friends, anyway?
OK, maybe she shouldn’t have tried to hang all the blame on Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. But what the heck: Ray’s got broad shoulders; for sure he can carry the load.
And how ’bout them bike lanes, huh?
Greatest idea ever.
City avenues needed to be shrunk by one-third, with parking spaces shoehorned into the middle of the street and concrete tank traps embedded into every corner. Talk about innovation and forward thinking!
Plus the bicycle delivery boys just love ’em. Notice the smiles as they zip along in bunches of two or so every hour.
But the pedestrian plazas are the absolute best.
It took a seer to come up with lawn furniture smack in the middle of Times Square. No doubt the chairs are the talk of Topeka and Tokyo when the tourists get back home — and all the side-street congestion is a small price to pay for that kind of word-of-mouth.
Now, as nothing succeeds like success, it’s small wonder that Sadik-Khan sought to transfer the concept to the longest — and maybe the widest — block in Midtown: 34th Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues.
That the locals objected speaks to their small-mindedness, right? Why, we bet they even hate Central Park, too!
And that Sadik-Khan felt obliged to shelve the scheme last week means that, after all these years, she has learned to listen.
Isn’t flexibility a terrific trait in a commissioner, Mr. Mayor?
This one’s a keeper.
Pleeeeease don’t fire her.