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Transit Oriented Development in the New York Metropolitan Region

1:06 PM EDT on October 3, 2006

Forum panelists will discuss Transit Oriented Development (TOD) – what it is, specific initiatives in progress or completed, and the benefits and obstacles to its implementation.

Featuring Panelists:

Eric Alexander, Vision Long Island
Vivian Baker, NJ Transit
Joseph Chan, MTA
Randall Fleischer, MTA Metro-North Railroad
Larry Gould, MTA NYC Transit
Robert Lane, Regional Plan Association
Elisa Picca, MTA Long Island Rail Road
Ellyn Shannon, Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the MTA

Sponsored by: NYU Wagner Rudin Center for Transportation & Policy Management and the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the MTA.

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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