Three years. One mayor.
- Built 100 pre-schools with permanent funding.
- Built 52 schools, refurbished 150, added 14,000 computers and increased enrollment 34 percent.
- Established or refurbished 1200 parks and playgrounds.
- Built three large and 10 neighborhood libraries.
- Reduced traffic by 40 percent.
- Created a bus system for 500,000.
- Brought water to 100 percent of households
- Bought land to prevent speculation and ensure affordable housing, schools, power, water, telephone, parks and greenbelt.
- Established 185 miles of bikeways.
- Created the world’s longest pedestrian street, 10 miles, with 30 miles of pathway.
- Inaugurated an annual car-free day for everyone from CEOs to janitor.
- Planted 100,000 trees.
- Saw the murder rate fall by two-thirds.