Gary Toth

Gary Toth is PPS Senior Director of Transportation Initiatives. He has helped lead a national movement to integrate land use and transportation issues as a means of creating more livable, walkable communities and streets. Prior to joining PPS in 2007, Gary spent 34 years in project management with the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT), where he helped transform NJDOT to a stakeholder inclusive agency focused on the integration of transportation and land use planning.

As a transportation engineer, Gary possesses extensive knowledge of street and network design principles, and he is one of the leading U.S. experts on utilizing flexible design and design standards to create great streets and communities. At PPS, Gary has worked with dozens of communities to help them plan and create more sustainable streets and transportation networks with sound engineering principles. To that end, he has conducted hundreds of trainings and community engagement sessions.

From Mobility to Community Building: Rethinking the Future of State DOTs

In our current political climate, there is little appetite to build and resource huge new bureaucracies. Talent, expertise and the funding already exists within most transportation agencies. We simply have to re-tool the apparatus that was so successful in creating the high-speed network in the 20th Century.

August 31, 2017

Society

Brasilia: From Placeless to Place-Centered

Brasilia is a city that favors efficiency over excitement and compartmentalization over multi-use destinations. By design, it eschews Placemaking.

January 31, 2014

Society

Canceling the Curve: A Small Town Rightsizing Success Story

PPS often says, ‘We have to stop building transportation through communities and instead build communities through transportation.’

June 26, 2013

Society

Welcome to the Rightsizing Streets Guide

Many of our streets haven’t changed in decades, even when they’ve proven dangerous, or the surrounding communities’ needs have changed. When the roads have been altered, they have often been made wider, straighter, and faster, rather than more livable. Our Rightsizing Streets Guide aims to help planners and community members update their streets to make them ‘right’ for their context.

January 23, 2013

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