Forum This Monday 25Oct04

Subject: Forum This Monday
Date: 10/25/2004 12:31:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time
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From: Henry J. Stern
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 3:50 PM
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Subject: Forum This Monday



You are cordially invited to hear four experts on mass transit

Diana Fortuna, president, Citizens Budget Commission

Judith Kleinbaum, deputy executive director, MTA

Eliot (Lee) Sander, former commissioner, NYC Dept of Transportation;
director, NYU Rudin Center for Transportation; senior vice president, DMJM + Harris

Harris Schectman, former general manager, NYC Transit;
director of transit planning, Sam Schwartz, LLC

in a forum on Transportation

moderated by Henry Stern

This Monday Evening, October 25, 2004



In co-operation with New York Civic, the Museum of the City of New York is sponsoring a series of public forums this fall on urgent problems facing New York City. Henry J. Stern, president of New York Civic and former Parks & Recreation commissioner, will moderate the programs. Panelists will speak, question each other, and then discussion will go to the floor. People who attend will have the opportunity to ask questions of the speakers. The programs will begin at 6:30 and end by 8:00 p.m.


Transportation

One of the city's less tractable problems, various modes of transportation - railroads, subways, buses, ferries, trucks, taxis, passenger cars and bicycles - will be considered, as well as their impact on congestion, air pollution, and passenger, rider and pedestrian safety.

Our speakers are:

Diana Fortuna is president of the Citizens Budget Commission, a nonpartisan group founded in 1932 that conducts studies and periodically publishes reports on local, state and regional issues. She served on the staff of the White House Domestic Policy Council and as assistant to the administrator of the United States Health Care Financing Administration in Washington, DC. At New York State’s Office of Federal Affairs, she analyzed federal issues for the state. Prior to that, she spent nine years in the City of New York’s Office of Management and Budget, rising to become deputy director.

Linda Kleinbaum has served for 15 years at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. She is currently the deputy executive director for administration and is responsible for capital program budgets and management, construction oversight, real estate, procurement, facilities operation, enterprise information technologies group and the policy division. Prior to assuming this position, Linda served as MTA’s director of policy. Prior to the MTA, Linda held senior positions in New York City government, including chief of staff to the first deputy mayor of the City of New York, director of contracts for the mayor’s office of operations and director of management support for the New York City Fire Department’s Bureau of Fire Prevention.

Eliot (Lee) Sander, commissioner of transportation for two years in the Giuliani administration, now directs the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management at NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service. Sander is also a senior vice president at DMJM Harris, a leading architectural, planning and engineering firm. He is the former chairman of the Transportation Research Board's committee on large U.S. cities and serves as a senior advisor to National Association of City Transportation Officials He is a commissioner on the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission

Harris M. Schechtman is the director of transit planning for Sam Schwartz LLC. He focuses on innovative solutions for more efficient operation and customer satisfaction in the transit and toll industries. Mr. Schechtman’s 35 years of creative public sector leadership have transformed the region’s transportation landscape by sculpting capital projects into innovative improvements, and service concepts into successful operating realities. As a general manager of New York City Transit, he ran all bus operations in Manhattan, reshaped the route network in all five boroughs, pioneered the zone express concept from which today’s limited-stop services grew, and crafted the construction programs for new depots to support bus operations. Then as vice president of operations at MTA Bridges and Tunnels, he led the team that field-implemented and operated E-Z Pass as a customer-attractive, highly efficient, congestion-eliminating system, attributes that helped it grow into the world’s largest electronic toll system.


The Moderator:


Henry J. Stern, whose park name is StarQuest, founded New York Civic in 2002. He writes regularly on public affairs, and sends his columns to over 10,000 subscribers. Before entering the blogosphere, StarQuest was for fifteen years (a post-Moses record) commissioner of Parks & Recreation, by appointment of Mayor Koch (1983 - 1990) and Mayor Giuliani (1994 - 2002). He is on the boards of the Hudson River Park Trust, Historic House Trust, Battery Conservancy, Trees New York and the Carl Schurz Park Association. Between his terms as Parks commissioner, he was president of Citizens Union, the good government organization, whose board chair at the time was the late Robert F. Wagner, Jr.

In an earlier life, he was elected councilmember at large from Manhattan as the Liberal Party candidate in 1973 and re-elected in 1977. Before that, he was first deputy commissioner of consumer affairs for Commissioner Bess Myerson, and executive director of the Parks Department when Thomas Hoving was commissioner. He also worked for Deputy Mayor Timothy W. Costello, Manhattan Borough Presidents Edward R. Dudley and Constance Baker Motley, and State Supreme Court Justice Matthew M. Levy.

Time:
6:30 p.m.

Place:
Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue (between 103rd and 104th Streets)

How to get there (by mass transit):
By subway: 6 local train to 103rd Street, 2 and 3 trains to 110th Street
By bus: 1, 2, 3 and 4 buses northbound on Madison Avenue to 104th Street

Let us know:
Call 212.564.4441 or e-mail moby@nycivic.org.

Because we are sponsors, the forum will be free for NY Civic subscribers. There will be a charge for the general public, but you and your guest(s) will be admitted without charge.





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