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‘Contested Streets’ Screening and Panel Discussion: ‘What Can Be Done About Traffic in New York City?’

Following Sierra Club NYC's monthly general membership meeting will be a special showing of Contested Streets, a new documentary showing the way to livable, gridlock-free streets -- from the Battery to the Bronx, from Staten Island to Coney Island.

By Aaron Donovan

7:29 PM EST on November 10, 2006

Following Sierra Club NYC‘s monthly general membership meeting will be a special showing of Contested Streets, a new documentary showing the way to livable, gridlock-free streets — from the Battery to the Bronx, from Staten Island to Coney Island.

After the film, a panel discussion of NYC transportation issues by:

City Councilman John Liu, chairman of the City Council’s Transportation Committee
‘Gridlock’ Sam Schwartz — transportation expert and former engineer with the City DOT
Bruce Schaller — visiting scholar, NYU

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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