Lee Sander is back in the advocacy world.
Executive director of the M.T.A. between 2007 and mid-2009, Mr. Sander Thursday was elected chairman of the Regional Plan Association, the prominent advocacy organization that pushes for greater transit investment and rational urban planning.
Mr. Sander, pushed from his M.T.A. job amid a restructuring by Governor Read More
Lee Sander is back in the advocacy world.
Executive director of the M.T.A. between 2007 and mid-2009, Mr. Sander Thursday was elected chairman of the Regional Plan Association, the prominent advocacy organization that pushes for greater transit investment and rational urban planning.
Mr. Sander, pushed from his M.T.A. job amid a restructuring by Read More
Regional Plan Association, others, protest public financing of Trade Center Read More
Among the recommendations were calls for a light rail loop in midtown that connects to Read More
Last night at the New York Blood Center auditorium on the Upper West Side, Assemblyman Micah Kellner moderated a panel on post-congestion-pricing solutions for city transportation that reached a general consensus but no real solution: Congestion pricing is not a bad idea, the proposal was just executed poorly, and right now the M.T.A. is, as Read More
Leading up to tonight’s scoping meeting of the Coney Island revamp, various advocacy groups and others are staking out positions on the city’s plan, a few of which have ended up in our inbox. The comments are on the latest iteration of the plan, which was altered after it met opposition from Councilman Read More
The report seeks to quantify the amount of carbon emitted fom transportation and from residential energy use in the nation's 100 largest metro regions in 2000 and in 2005. Read More
A new Regional Plan Association report (PDF) calls for the proposed rail link beneath the Hudson River from the Meadowlands Arena to near Penn Station to be extended to Manhattan's East Side, possibly near Grand Central Station. The extension would save the estimated 60,000 commuters who travel through Penn Station to the East Side Read More
Publicize It! (Drawing by Laurie Olin) The Regional Plan Association, which staunchly opposed the West Side Stadium last year, is taking a milder position on the Atlantic Yards proposal in Brooklyn. In a statement issued today (in preparation for tomorrow's public hearing), the planning group ominously predicts that "without sufficient investments from the Read More
Over on The Real Estate, Matthew Schuerman posts about Eliot Spitzer's transportation agenda, unveiled this morning at a Regional Plan Association conference.
Eliot Spitzer, speaking this morning at a Regional Plan Association conference, suggested the present Governor's political patronage had led to labor-management strife at the M.T.A., if not the actual strike in December: For much of their history, organizations such as the M.T.A., the Port Authority, New York state's own transportation department and the Thruway Read More
