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PlaNYC 2030: One Year Later

On Earth Day 2007, Mayor Michael Bloomberg unveiled a wide-ranging plan to make the city more environmentally friendly as it expands to meet the needs of 1 million more residents by 2030. His PlaNYC offered 127 specific proposals on land use, transportation, energy, reducing greenhouse gases and other vital issues. For Earth Day 2008, Sustainability Watch, a joint project of Gotham Gazette and the Hunter College Center for Community Planning & Development, asked experts to assess the plan -- its successes and failures, what it does and does not do -- and what the next steps are in the long-term effort to create a livable city for 9 million people.

Congestion pricing has come and gone. And now advocates and experts examine what could come of some of the other 126 initiatives in the administration's PlaNYC in our second installment of Sustainability Watch.