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

By Aaron Donovan
Feb 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.

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