Southern Brooklyn Transportation Investment Study

2:00 PM EDT on October 11, 2006

The Southern Brooklyn Transportation Investment Study, initiated in 2002, set out to assess current and future travel conditions and deficiencies and develop multimodal transportation improvement alternatives that address the movement of people and goods throughout southern Brooklyn.

The New York Metropolitan Transportation Council will hold a public meeting to present results of the study (also presented in pdf format in its newsletter), and outline what will happen next.

Date: October 11, 2006

Time: 2 - 8 p.m.

Where: Brooklyn Borough Hall, 209 Joralemon Street

Aaron Donovan

Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York's pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.

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