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Congestion Mitigation Commission’s 2nd Meeting

5:58 PM EDT on October 24, 2007

The 17-member Commission will hold its second meeting in its process to determine the best way to reduce traffic congestion.

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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