Gabe Klein for DCDOT
Washington, DC has been doing some good things in smart growth and transportation terms in recent years. The lead agency doing progressive work in this field has normally been the planning department rather than the Department of Transportation. Back in July, DC transportation chief Emeka Moneme resigned and David Alpert launched a position urging the Fenty administration to appoint a bold reformer to fill the job, someone along the lines of the picks Fenty has already made for the Department of Education and the Department of Planning or Jeannette Sadik-Khan in the Department of Transportation in NYC.
One of the people who signed the petition was Gabe Klein, a former executive with Zipcar — a firm that has a strong interest in transportation reform. And now comes the news that Fenty has tapped Klein to head the Department of Transportation. The Fenty administration’s transportation policy instincts have mostly been in the right direction, and Klein seems to me like a guy who may be ready to shift things into a higher gear.
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January 1st, 2009 at 8:44 pm
and Klein seems to me like a guy who may be ready to shift things into a higher gear.
-Pun much, Matthew?
January 2nd, 2009 at 1:41 am
So for those of us outside DC, are we to take from this that Fenty is doing a pretty good job?
January 2nd, 2009 at 9:54 am
I saw my first Zip-cars in the Boston area last weekend. ( I only go to Boston to take my 56 year old disabled brother out to lunch every month or so, he is the only family member still in Massachusetts, and he is still there because there are services for him there. Here in NH there would be a 3 year waiting list, and actually with the budget cuts coming, probably even a longer one now. ) Anyway, we saw a couple of Zip-cars in the Somerville/Medford area.
January 2nd, 2009 at 10:10 am
And, like the Mayor himself, he’s damn good looking for a DC public servant type! Besides his good work on schools and government reform, I really like Mayor Fenty bringing some good male hotness back into DC government.
January 8th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
chombajr, are you implying that Emeka Moneme was not hot?
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