Panel Discussion: The Roads Taken and Not Taken: Robert Moses and Transportation

11:44 PM EST on February 2, 2007

A distinguished panel of transportation experts will examine Robert Moses's legacy of roads, bridges, tunnels and highways in the context of today's transportation and transit agenda, stressing strategies for addressing the city's current traffic problems and future demand for expanded and improved mass transit. Panelists will include

Richard Ravitch, former chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Gene Russianoff, senior counsel for NYPIRG's Straphangers Campaign
Elliot G. "Lee" Sander, recently appointed executive director and chief executive officer, Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Hon. Iris Weinshall, New York City transportation commissioner

The panel will be moderated by Robert Yaro, president, Regional Plan Association.

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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