Free conference: Transportation 2030: A Five Borough Blueprint

Although free, registration through the website is required.

This conference will bring together thought leaders and experts to examine transportation challenges across the five boroughs, address long standing transportation debates and identify ambitious solutions that will enhance the economy, safety and accessibility of Metropolitan New York.  The Conference will also highlight new innovations in transportation technology that promise to make our transit system more efficient and eco-friendly.

Event Schedule

9am - Introductory Remarks and Keynote Address

10am to 11:15am - Plenary Session: Infrastructure Innovation and Finance: How Do We Pay for It?

11:00am to 1:45pm - Expo: Transportation and Technology

12:30pm to 1:45pm - Afternoon Breakout Sessions 

Breakout Session #1: Parking Reform and Reducing Congestion

In addition to reexamining the potential benefits of congestion pricing and a reinvigoration of New York City’s freight rail assets, this panel will focus on issues related to parking which have a significant effect on congestion and commercial development in the five boroughs

Breakout Session #2: Filling the Gaps in the Transit Map: Tackling the Two-Fare Zone and Transportation Deserts 

One of the major issues in transit today is the emergence of so-called “transportation deserts”—areas generally far away from the central business district (CBD) of Manhattan that do not have ready access to bus and/or subway transit. These districts include Mill Basin and Marine Park in Brooklyn, South Ozone Park and Bayside in Queens, the North Shore of Staten Island, City Island in the Bronx and many more. In this breakout, participants will discuss local issues emblematic of broader problems in the Metro-NY transit network.

Breakout Session #3: The 6th Borough: Utilizing New York City's Waterways 

New York has a long and storied history of using its waterways as vessels for transporting people and products throughout the metropolitan region. However, in recent decades, with the notable exception of the Staten Island Ferry, which carries 19 million passengers per year, waterborne transportation in New York City has not achieved its full potential—carrying only 1% of regional transit ridership. This breakout will seek ways to reconnect with the water in order to provide social, economic, and environmental advantages for millions of New Yorkers.

Breakout Session #4: Sharing the Street: Bike Lanes, Bus Rapid Transit and Other Street Redesigns 

The NYC Department of Transportation, in conjunction with the MTA, has undertaken one of the most ambitious and controversial efforts at redesigning New York City’s streets in history. This breakout will tackle bike lanes, bus-rapid transit, pedestrian plazas, and other ways that the streetscape of New York has been and can be redesigned to make our streets more livable and our transit network more robust.

Breakout Session #5: Safe Streets for All: Accessibility, Design and Enforcement

With the stated goal of creating a healthier, safer and more livable New York City, this breakout will evaluate ways to eliminate, not just reduce, traffic deaths and serious injuries on our streets, while simultaneously seeking new ideas concerning how to make the planes, trains, buses, cabs and sidewalks of our City’s urban infrastructure more accessible to all.

Location
John Jay College for Criminal Justice
899 10th Avenue 
Between 58th and 59th Streets
New York, NY NY