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