Forum on Transportation Solutions for Long Island
To Be Held September 20th

The Hofstra Center for Suburban Studies, Long Island Community Foundation, Long Island Regional Planning Board, New York Community Trust, One Region Funders' Group, Rauch Foundation, Sustainable Long Island, Tri-State Transportation Campaign, and Vision Long Island are coming together to hold a forum, Transportation Solutions for Long Island: Towards Transit-Centered Community Development, on September 20th, 2007 from 9:00am to 11:30am at the Hofstra University Business Development Center, Axinn Library.

Transportation is a major challenge for Long Island employers and their employees, and congestion a huge and growing problem for residents and workers alike. New leadership at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is looking at transportation solutions in fresh and creative ways, exploring opportunities to enhance service and improve stations, but also to invest in strategies that bring jobs and housing closer together, and reduce vehicle miles traveled. Long Island offers a laboratory for testing new ideas – such as transit-centered community development – borrowing a page from New Jersey’s highly successful Transit Village playbook. As community leaders look toward transit centers for development and congestion relief, it is essential that we develop solutions that serve people of all income levels, not just the most fortunate among us. Please join civic, nonprofit, and government leaders in a community forum for a discussion about the connections between job mobility, housing, economic development, congestion relief, and transportation investments, and the opportunities that new approaches and strategies could bring to Long Island.

Elliot Sander, Executive Director and CEO, MTA	Mark Stout,Assisant Comm, NJ DOT	Hon. Jack Martins, Mayor, Village of Mineola	Hon. Connie Kepert, Councilwoman, Town of Brookhaven

Speakers for the event include: Mark Stout, Assistant Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Transportation; Elliot G. Sander, Executive Director & CEO, Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Respondents include: Connie Kepert, Councilwoman, Town of Brookhaven and Jack Martins, Mayor, Village of Mineola. The moderator is Joye Brown, Columnist, Newsday.

Please register for this important event.

Please RSVP to this invitation to the Long Island Community Foundation by leaving a phone message at 516-348-0575 x601, or by sending an email to responses@licf.org.

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