Northeast Queens Transportation Panel: Buses, Subways, LIRR, Access-a-Ride, Clean Fuels, Fair Fares, Tolls, Congestion Pricing

11:00 PM EDT on April 20, 2007

"2007 - A Transit Odyssey" (Legislative Forum): Buses, Subways, LIRR, Access-a-Ride, Clean Fuels, Fair Fares, Tolls, Congestion Pricing

Moderated by: City Council Finance Committee Chairman David Weprin

Speakers:

MTA CEO/ Executive Director Elliot Sander
State Senator Frank Padavan
Assembly Member Catherine Nolan, member, Public Authorities Control Board
Assembly Member Mark Weprin
City Council Environmental Protection Committee Chairman James Gennaro
City Council Transportation Committee Chairman John Liu
Amalgamated Transportation Union No. 1056 President Ed Figueroa

Sponsored by: Northeast Queens Jewish Community Council (NEQJCC), Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care & Rehabilitation, UJA-Federation of New York, Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty (Met Council), Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater New York, Queens Civic Congress, The Samuel Field/Bay Terrace Y, Queens Region Hadassah

Program Chairs: William Rapfogel ("Met Council") & Corey Bearak (NEQJCC)

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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