New York Metropolitan Transportation Council
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The New York Metropolitan Transportation Council (NYMTC) is the metropolitan planning organization for New York City, Long Island, and the lower Hudson Valley (Putnam, Rockland, and Westchester counties). It is intended to serve as a transportation planning forum to allow the ten counties it represents to coordinate with each other. NYMTC was created in 1982 after the disbanding of the Tri-State Regional Planning Commission, a metropolitan planning organization for the states of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
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NYMTC is structured as a Regional Council of Governments. The voting members of NYMTC comprise representatives of the counties of Putnam, Rockland, Westchester, Nassau, and Suffolk; the New York City Departments of City Planning and Transportation; and the New York State Department of Transportation. Nonvoting members comprise representatives of the Federal Highway Administration, Federal Transit Administration, New Jersey Transit, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
