TRANSPORTATION COUNCIL TARGETS TEN “GROWTH AREAS” by Ken Mahoney

TRANSPORTATION COUNCIL TARGETS TEN “GROWTH AREAS”

The New York Metropolitan Transportation Council on March 13 outlined ten desired “growth areas” for strategic transportation investments in the Hudson Valley, New York City and Long Island.

Officials talked about developing along the Interstate 287 corridor in Rockland and Westchester. During their annual meeting at NYU’s Kimmel Center in Manhattan, council members discussed their plan to address the population “boom” and related traffic congestion expected over the next two decades. NYMTC members believe there will be two million more people calling the metro area home by the year 2030.

Highlighted at the meeting was the importance of making mass transit work with smart land use.

Details of the agency’s plan are available online at www.NYMTC.org.