What will New York City be like in 2030? Its a question that New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg and his planning team have been pondering.

There are many challenges in dealing with a growing metropolis. The top three in the list that the city planners came up with should come of little surprise to anyone familiar with big city life:

1. The city will get BIGGER (as in a lot more people).
2. The infrastructure (the rails, the roads, the bridges) will get much OLDER.
3. The (already strained) environment will be AT RISK.

Kudos to the Mayor and the planning team for getting started on this effort. Unfortunately, identifying the problems is a lot easier than being able to take successful action to avert a crisis. So there’s a lot of hard work ahead. But lord knows that if any city can rise to a challenge than New York surely can. It’s all about the people.

The city has launched and official PLANYC2030 site to provide information and keep interested parties abreast of the situation.

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