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Bruce Schaller
Bruce Schaller was appointed Deputy Commissioner for Planning and Sustainability on May 29, 2007. He oversees agency planning, design and implementation of the transportation elements in Mayor Bloomberg's PlaNYC and key elements of DOT's Sustainable Streets Strategic Plan.
The Division of Planning and Sustainability is responsible for development of bus rapid transit, including the recently implemented Fordham Road Select Bus Service (SBS) and 34 Street bus improvements and planned SBS routes on First and Second Avenue in Manhattan, Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn and Hylan Avenue in Staten Island; coordination of transit development with New York City Transit; parking policy development including the Department's PARK Smart program; public space planning including the DOT's Plaza Program; neighborhood planning studies for Jackson Heights, Queens and other areas; development and evaluation of congestion mitigation strategies; publication of the Department's annual Sustainable Streets Index; urban design including liaison with the Public Design Commission and DOT's temporary art program; DOT's Office of Freight Mobility; and clean fuel initiatives focused primarily on trucks, other commercial fleets, ferries and taxis/for-hire vehicles.
Prior to his appointment as Deputy Commissioner, Mr. Schaller was Principal of Schaller Consulting. He consulted extensively for local governments, transit and airport authorities, university and non-profit organizations, for-profit companies and federal agencies on identifying transportation needs, developing effective transit programs, taxicab regulation, transit fare policy, road pricing, transportation finance, customer communications and bus rapid transit.
Mr. Schaller has also served as Deputy Director for Marketing Research and Analysis at New York City Transit, where his work was instrumental in fare policy initiatives, expansion of the paratransit program, developing customer communications and design of new subway cars and buses, and as Director of Policy Development and Evaluation at the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission.
A 27-year resident of Brooklyn, Mr. Schaller has a
Masters in Public Policy from the University of California at Berkeley and a BA
from Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio.
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