Public Forum: Film Screening on Traffic and Congestion Pricing

4:17 PM EDT on October 14, 2007

Remarks by

NYC Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn
State Senator Thomas K. Duane
Assembly Member Deborah J. Glick
Deputy Manhattan Borough President Rose Pierre-Louis.

Also, a screening of "Contested Streets: Breaking New York City Gridlock," a new documentary film on livable streets co-sponsored by Manhattan Community Board 2, Transportation Alternatives & NYU Office of Government and Community Relations.

Panel discussion to follow.

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.

Public Forum: Film Screening on Traffic and Congestion Pricing

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