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Jay Walder's Smart New World
January 2010

"Customers want to be able to find out how to get from point A to point B; they want to see right away whether or not the train or the buses they're looking to get on are on schedule," says Jay Walder, the new chairman & CEO of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. On his very first day as MTA chief, fresh from a consultancy at McKinsey & Company that followed highly regarded performances as Transport for London's head of finance and planning and MTA's CFO, Walder demanded an overhaul of the agency's web site with customers in mind - emphasizing directions and real-time schedule information.

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04.2009 Assessing New York City's Property Tax--Yet Again

02.2009 The Bronx is Up

01.2009 Power to the People!

12.2008 Blight by Government

11.2008 A Step Toward Market-Rate Housing for NYCHA

10.2008 Rezoning the Lower East Side

09.2008 Yes! Redevelop Willets Point

07.2008 Albany and City Hall: Here's What You Can Do to Slow Down Construction Costs

06.2008 Rezone the Rockaways--They've Waited Long Enough

05.2008 Expanding a Hospital in Historic Territory

04.2008 Tolls, Fees, and Fares

03.2008 Redeveloping Public Housing

02.2008 125th Street: Rezoning an Icon

01.2008 Mayor Bloomberg: Right on Neighborhoods, Right on Immigration

12.2007 A Town without Churches?

11.2007 Thinking Big for New York City

09.2007 Four Jane Jacobs Ideas that Should Have Made a Difference

08.2007 Fix the Drains (and Trains and Bridges)

06.2007 Facing its Past, Newark Gets Ready for its Future

05.2007 The Mayor is Right: Rezone Jamaica

04.2007 Don't Wait for the Congestion Pricing Pilot: Fix Transit Now!

03.2007 C'mon, Columbia, Take Eminent Domain Off the Table

02.2007 What to Make of Starrett City

01.2007 Keeping New York Competitive

12.2006 Buses, Trains, and Automobiles

11.2006 Will London Beat New York?

10.2006 Will Philly be the Next Great City?

09.2006 Will Newark Finally Come Back?

08.2006 Bloomberg Confronts Homelessness--and Neighborhoods

06.2006 Can New York Save its Houses of Worship?

05.2006 Eminent Domain: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

04.2006 The Queen Mary 2 Sails into the Brooklyn Waterfront Wars

03.2006 Will They Ever Rebuild Ground Zero?

02.2006 Market Rate Housing Comes to Harlem

01.2006 Saving Sherman Creek

12.2005 What Bloomberg Should Do Next: De-Regulating New York

11.2005 The City Council Does the Right Thing: Un-Landmarking in the Boroughs

10.2005 The Bronx is Up

09.2005 Thinking about Zoning's Relief Valves

08.2005 Rethinking Community-Facilities Zoning

06.2005 Thinking about Live/Work

05.2005 Doing it Right: Affordable Home Ownership in Harlem

04.2005 The False War between Housing & Jobs

03.2005 Landmarking Modernist Buildings?

02.2005 Thinking about Eminent Domain

01.2005 Building Code Blues: Will New York be Left Behind?

12.2004 Thinking about the Brooklyn Waterfront

11.2004 Thinking about Building Codes

10.2004 Thinking about Desolate Neighborhoods & Environmental Reviews

09.2004 Thinking about Homeownership in Low-Income Neighborhoods

08.2004 Thinking about Inclusionary Zoning

07.2004 Rezoning Hunters Point

06.2004 Thinking about Markets and the Mayor's Affordable Housing Plans

05.2004 Thinking about Ratner's Urban Renewal

04.2004 Rezoning West Harlem: Good for Harlem, Good for New York

03.2004 Rezoning Red Hook

02.2004 Thinking about the City Council's Barriers to Building

01.2004 The West Side Rethinks Donald Trump's Riverside South

12.2003 Thinking about Brooklyn Markets

11.2003 Mayor Bloomberg Rethinks a Misguided Tax

10.2003 Rethinking Staten Island

Julia Vitullo-Martin: Julia Vitullo-Martin is a Senior Fellow at the Regional Plan Association and Director of the Center for Urban Innovation. Her work focuses on development issues such as planning and zoning, housing, waterfront development, environmental review, building and fire codes, and...
Hope Cohen: Hope Cohen is associate director of RPA's Center for Urban Innovation. Before coming to RPA, Cohen was deputy director of the Manhattan Institute's Center for Rethinking Development, where she focused principally on issues of urban environment and infrastructure, publishing...

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