Brooklyn Community Board 6 Transportation Committee Meeting: PlaNYC 2030 & Traffic Calming

9:26 PM EDT on September 17, 2007

Brooklyn Community Board 6's Transportation Committee will be briefed by representatives for the Department of Transportation on the Mayor's PlaNYC 2030 Transportation initatives, which includes a proposed Congestion Pricing pilot program. The Transportation section of the plan can be reviewed in advance.

Also, an update from representatives for the Department of Transportation on the Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Calming Plan initiatives (Capital project HWK1153) already underway, and discussion of further needs for 4th Avenue corridor and environs.

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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