Comments on: Today’s Headlines http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/12/04/todays-headlines-211/ Covering Los Angeles's livable streets movement Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: johnny http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/12/04/todays-headlines-211/comment-page-1/#comment-3242 johnny Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:28:00 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=1459#comment-3242 This is off topic, but maybe Streetsblog could devote some coverage to Obama's potential picks for transportation secretary. I dug up a Washington Post article on a few of the front runners for the position - its difficult to say which one will be best although they all look better than the current secretary, Mary Peters. Of the people listed in the article, it looks as if Mortimer Downey would probably be the best as far as developing rail, liveable streets, etc. as he was the executive director of the NY MTA. Hopefully he will be receptive of expanding transit and bike options in cities many consider to be "car centric" as well. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/24/AR2008112402622.html This is off topic, but maybe Streetsblog could devote some coverage to Obama’s potential picks for transportation secretary. I dug up a Washington Post article on a few of the front runners for the position – its difficult to say which one will be best although they all look better than the current secretary, Mary Peters. Of the people listed in the article, it looks as if Mortimer Downey would probably be the best as far as developing rail, liveable streets, etc. as he was the executive director of the NY MTA. Hopefully he will be receptive of expanding transit and bike options in cities many consider to be “car centric” as well.

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