Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Jon Orcutt

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

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 22, 2007 | 7 Comments

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 […]

Shifting Gears at DOT

By Jason Varone | Jun 21, 2007 | 3 Comments

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 […]

Andy Wiley-Schwartz Starts at DOT on Monday

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 15, 2007 | 7 Comments

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 […]

Jon Orcutt Appointed as DOT Senior Policy Advisor

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 11, 2007 | 8 Comments

File under: Totally unimaginable just a few months ago. Following the appointment of Bruce Schaller as Deputy Commissioner for Planning and Sustainability, Jon Orcutt is DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan’s second high profile hire since taking over the agency. Stay tuned for one or two more big appointments. Kate Slevin will be taking over as Tri-State […]

Another Big Hire at DOT

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 11, 2007 | 5 Comments

Jon Orcutt will be stepping away from his job as executive director of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign to go work at the New York City Department of Transportation as Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan’s Senior Policy Advisor.

Gov. Spitzer Transition Team Transpo Committee Named

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 20, 2006 | No Comments

It includes some leading members of the congestion charging brainstrust and some big MTA reformers. Via Chuck Bennett at AMNY: Co-chairs Elliot Sander, director of NYU Rudin Center for Transportation, VP at MTA contractor DMJM Harris and former city Dept. of Transporation commisioner. (Rumored to an MTA chairman candidate) Mary Ann Crotty, former transportation advisor for […]

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