Alyson Cluck from the Museum of the City of New York e-mailed me late last week with word of a panel discussion at the museum. The topic will be the future of the MTA. At 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, a group of elected officials and advocates will gather to talk about the authority’s short- and long-term prospects. Henry Stern, director of New York Civic, will talk with Assemblyman Richard Brodsky; City Council Member Gale Brewer; Nicole Gelinas, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute; and Paul Steely White, Executive Director of Transportation Alternatives. While the panel is lacking a voice from the MTA — say the recently-ousted Elliot Sander — it should be informative. The audience should really gear up to grill Brodsky on his anti-congestion pricing stance.
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may just be able to make this. the MCNY has come on strong these past few years, no longer second fiddle to the N-YHS.
Nice panel. Brodsky’s vision of the future of the city is one where his district’s residents get to drive their cars wherever they want, but city residents have to pay more to use any mode of transportation – wouldn’t want them jamming the streets for him, or moving to his district and lowering local property values. Gelinas’s is a Victorian revival where anyone from the middle class down has to slave for decades and may or may not get any social security at the end, and the police have the right to shoot anyone they like.