T.A.’s Dani Simons to Join the DOT Dream Team

Dani Simons, Transportation Alternatives’ Director of Communications will be joining Bruce Schaller, Jon Orcutt and Andy Wiley-Schwartz at New York City’s Dept. of Transportation. She starts next week. No word yet on what her title will be but rumor has it that she will be helping DOT launch some sort of new blog.

Bring it on, Simons.

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By Ben Fried |
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Andy Wiley-Schwartz Starts at DOT on Monday

By Aaron Naparstek |
Department of Transportation commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan continues to assemble an impressive management team. Following in the footsteps of Bruce Schaller and Jon Orcutt, Project for Public Spaces vice president and transportation program director Andy Wiley-Schwartz is heading over to 40 Worth Street where he will be reporting to Deputy Commissioner Schaller at DOT’s new Office […]

Shifting Gears at DOT

By Jason Varone |
  DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan bicylcing to work during her first week on the job Crain’s New York reports that the earth is shaking below Dept. of Transportation headquarters at 40 Worth Street: Janette Sadik-Khan, the city’s new transportation commissioner, politely says she’s building on the foundation left by her predecessors. In fact, she is […]

Meet the New DOT… Again

By Ben Fried |
Members of the Department of Transportation "Dream Team" Nearly nine months after her appointment, the alternative weekly newspaper City Hall notes that there’s someone new in charge at New York City’s Department of Transportation and, guess what? She’s taking a different approach to the job than her predecessor. Monday’s profile of DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan […]

Cities Are Doin’ It for Themselves

By Ben Fried |
Between Chris Christie’s decision to wind down construction on the ARC tunnel and the fare-hiking aftereffects of Albany’s political malevolence/incompetence, it was a rough week for sustainable transportation in the New York City region. Governors and legislatures may call a lot of the shots when it comes to transportation policy, but thankfully not all of […]

Jon Orcutt Appointed as DOT Senior Policy Advisor

By Aaron Naparstek |
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