Auto-Free New York: Advancing Rail Freight for a Uniquely Truck-Dependent City

by calendar on June 21, 2009

When
June 23, 2009   6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Where
NYPD Downtown Center
104 Washington St. (at Rector St.)
Manhattan
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Auto-Free New York

A presentation by Benjamin Miller, Senior Fellow, CUNY Institute for Urban Systems; and John McHugh, Counsel, East of Hudson Rail Freight Task Force

Some of the noisiest and most polluting vehicles in our neighborhoods are giant trucks. Almost completely unregulated, spewing diesel fumes, blaring interstate airhorns at all hours, often with unsafe equipment or poorly trained drivers, these huge vehicles substantially lower our quality of life, even as some of the trucks deliver essentials and struggle to remove the prodigious amounts of waste New Yorkers produce.

Rail freight is yet another transportation area where NYC lags decades behind other more sophisticated cities. Putting freight, garbage, imports and mail on rails rather than trucks has the potential to remove a substantial number of these harsh vehicles from our streets. Come to our June AFNY meeting to hear two experts bring us up to date on developments here.

Sincerely,
George Haikalis, Chair