Trains, Planes and Bike Lanes…
As a senior member of the Regional Plan Association’s transportation team, I developed long-range transportation plans and policy recommendations for the Fourth Regional Plan. Created once every thirty years the Regional Plan seeks to chart the future of the New York metropolitan region.
Analyzing the world’s rail megaprojects.
Working with Julia Vitullo-Martin and Richard Barone, I co-authored research on global costs for transit megaprojects. I completed a construction cost analysis for transit heavy rail projects in eight metropolitan cities on four continents; including, Paris, London, Madrid and Los Angeles. Synthesizing global best-practice strategies to reduce costs and project delays for rail transit expansion in New York City.
More sustainable air travel.
New York and New Jersey airports are experiencing climate-change induced flooding at a greater rate and will continue to have operational problems in the decades ahead. With Jeffery Zupan and Richard Barone, I developed strategies to close Teterboro Airport, strategized ways to reduce demand on LaGuardia Airport - destined to suffer from tidal flooding by the middle of this century - and created plans for the expand and conversion of the airspace for Newark and JFK Airports. Reducing fuel-intensive landings and take-offs to support more sustainable air travel.
200x more space to bike.
In the Fourth Regional Plan, I developed strategies to end the automobile’s dominance of New York City’s street space, transforming the 80% of space given to cars into places for walking, biking and surface transit. Growing the space dedicated bicycle infrastructure to 15% of the City’s streetscape. Key to this plan is the creation of car-free walking and biking districts throughout NYC and dedicated biking + transit priority corridors.