Public transportation in New York has not seen significant
additions in decades, while New Jersey has moved ahead with direct
commuter rail service to Manhattan and light rail
initiatives. Now New York is weighing a direct rail line from
Downtown Manhattan to Kennedy Airport, bringing the Long Island
Rail Road into Grand Central Terminal, building the long-dormant
Second Avenue subway, as well as extending the number 7 subway line
to the West Side and constructing a rail freight tunnel under New
York Harbor. In addition, New Jersey Transit has proposed a
new tunnel and Midtown Manhattan terminal.
Which of these projects deserves priority? Where will the
funding for these major capital programs come from?
Date: Tuesday, May
3, 2005
Time: 1:00
p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Location: Association
of the Bar of the City of New York
42 West 44th Street, New York
Sponsored by the Transportation Law Committee, Association of
the Bar, and the Environmental Law Section, New York State Bar
Association
Moderator: Professor
Philip Weinberg
St.
John’s University School of Law
Speakers:
Rep.
Jerrold Nadler
United
States Congress
Richard
Ravitch
Former
MTA Chair
Thomas
Schulze
New
Jersey Transit
Director
of “Access to Region’s Core” Project
William
Wheeler
Metropolitan
Transportation Authority
Director
of Planning and Special Events
Jeffrey
M. Zupan
Regional
Plan Association
Senior
Fellow for Transportation
For more information
contact: Prof. Philip Weinberg
Telephone:
718-990-6628
Email:
weinberp@stjohns.edu
For more information on Prof.
Philip Weinberg view his biography.