Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Rohit Aggarwala

Congestion Pricing Q&A With Rohit Aggarwala, Part 2

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 18, 2007 | 6 Comments

Rohit Aggarwala models the latest in Long-Term Planning & Sustainability chic: Gray flannel, subway token cuff links, Columbia U. class ring and a global warming mug: Pour a hot drink and coast lines disappear. This is the second segment of a four-part interview with New York City’s Director of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability, Rohit Aggarwala. […]

Congestion Pricing Q&A With Rohit Aggarwala, Part 1

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 17, 2007 | 27 Comments

Too many unanswered questions. Among New York State Assembly Democrats, that has been one of the most frequent criticisms of Mayor Bloomberg’s proposal for a three-year congestion pricing pilot project in New York City. Last month, Lower Manhattan Assembly member Deborah Glick said that she and her colleagues were “confronted with a dearth of information […]

112,000 Less Cars

By Brad Aaron | Jun 11, 2007 | 33 Comments

Here are more points from Friday’s PlaNYC Hearing: Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff estimated congestion pricing would remove 112,000 cars from city streets on a daily basis, with 94,000 would-be drivers switching to transit, in what he said would be "Probably the single greatest mode shift anywhere." DOT Deputy Commissioner Bruce Schaller said that whatever edge […]

From a Sea of Green, Bloomberg Works a Tough Room

By Brad Aaron | Jun 8, 2007 | 24 Comments

Flanked by dozens, if not hundreds, of citizen spectators in bright green "I Breathe and I Vote" t-shirts, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and city staffers this morning made the case for a three-year congestion pricing pilot program to a largely hostile cadre of state Assembly members. Seated alongside ten colleagues in the auditorium of the New […]

An English Plan in New York

By Brad Aaron | Mar 28, 2007 | 3 Comments

The once traffic-filled street between Trafalgar Square and the National Gallery is now a thriving plaza. Climate change is a greater threat to London than terrorism, one of the city’s top planners said yesterday. Debbie McMullen (right), a one-time New Yorker who heads implementation of the "London Plan," made this matter-of-fact announcement at a Tuesday […]

New York New Visions Tackles “Sustainable” New York Future

By Neil deMause | Feb 6, 2007 | 2 Comments

After Mayor Bloomberg’s December announcement of his PlaNYC initiative to prepare for a sustainable New York of 9 million people by 2030, New York New Visions, the group of architects and planners originally organized around Ground Zero rebuilding, announced it was expanding its scope to tackle the new challenge. Last night, in a stark white […]

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