Posts Tagged ‘secretary of transportation’

Plus Obstacycle and other thoughts of the day
There have recently been a few items I wanted to share but didn’t necessarily warrant separate posts. Marcus might have done this as a news roundup, but I’ll just submit this random assortment of ideas.
Transportation Secretary says he’d be just as happy being in charge of agriculture
When President [...]

Formal Announcement expected Friday
This morning the New York Times confirmed earlier reports that President Elect Obama has chosen retiring Illinois Republican Congressman Ray LaHood to be his Transportation Secretary. 
Although he is a moderate Republican with a record of voting in favor of alternative transportation, I have to say I’m pretty disappointed with this choice. Frankly, [...]

Two news outlets today are reporting that retiring Republican Congressman Ray LaHood of Illinois’ 18th district is being considered for Secretary of Transportation under President Barack Obama.
The New York Times’ Caucus Blog reports:
One of the tasks awaiting the transportation secretary is helping to implement the vast public works projects that Mr. Obama has proposed to [...]

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Houston Chronicle have put out a story today indicating the former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk is a finalist to be Secretary of Transportation in Barack Obama’s cabinet. The Dallas Observer blog has a bit as well.
Here’s a quote from the Star-Telegram story:
Speaking from his Dallas law office Thursday evening, Kirk [...]

TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY
Jane Garvey, former head of the Federal Aviation Administration.
Mortimer Downey, former deputy transportation secretary.
Steve Heminger, executive director, San Francisco Bay area transportation commission.
Posted very late last night, that’s who they think are in the running. If you’re interested, you can read the rest of their “contenders” list here for the rest of the cabinet [...]

As part of our continuing coverage of the Secretary of Transportation cabinet position under President-Elect Obama, I wanted to point our readers to this opinion piece I read this morning from the San Jose Mercury News. A strong endorsement for Steve Heminger, Executive Director of the Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission. Here’s a small portion:

As [...]

You can read our previous coverage of President-Elect Barack Obama’s possible choices for Secretary of Transportation here and here.
According to a recent article at Traffic World Online, even more potential Secretary of Transportation candidates have been added to the rumor pool. This is one cabinet pick that seems to be fueling a ton of speculation [...]

In the comments on our earlier thread on possible Obama picks for Secretary of Transportation, someone put forward Jack Opiola as someone who could perhaps be asked to join the Obama administration for the post. We did find a few mentions of this possibility online, so here’s a short biography:
Jack Opiola is a principal with [...]

Speculation abounds: who will be Barack Obama’s Transportation Secretary Choice? It’s far too early to really know, but we’re hoping here at Austin Bike Blog that the next Secretary of Transportation has a much better view of transit, pedestrian, and bicycle infrastructure than our current one.
The current Secretary of Transportation in the Bush Administration, Mary [...]