Gov. Spitzer Transition Team Transpo Committee Named
It includes some leading members of the congestion charging brainstrust and some big MTA reformers. Via Chuck Bennett at AMNY:
10:51 AM EST on November 20, 2006
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 Mario Cuomo.
Members
- Janette Sadik-Kahn, VP at Parsons Brinckerhoff (Big MTA contractor leading the Partnership for NYC’s congestion pricing study)
- Gene Russianoff, Straphangers Campaign (the MTA’s best critic)
- Jon Orcutt, president of the Tri State Transportation Campaign (another tough MTA critic and big thinker on regional transport issues)
- Ernest Tollerson, VP at Partnership for NYC (Working on the Partnership’s congestion pricing study)
- Mitch Palley, MTA board member from Suffolk (often the lone dissenting voice with votig power on the board and big supporter of the third rail project for the LIRR)
- Susan Kupferman, president MTA Bridges and Tunnels (Rumored candidate for MTA executive director)
- Robert Yaro, president of Regional Plan Association
Other Members
- James Conigliaro, Machinists
- Sam Williams, UAW 9A
- Garry Labarbera, president Teamsters Local 282
- Jack Aherne, International Union of Operating Engineers
- Chris Ward, managing director of the General Contractors Association (Ports, shipping and environment expert)
- Sonia Toledo, managing director Merrill Lynch
- Jamie Mercado, partner at Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett
- Edward Malloy, president of Buildings and Construction Trades Council
- Eva Lerner Lamb, presidents of Palisades Consulting
- Doreen Frasca, president of Frasca & Associates
- John Egan, president of Renaissance Corp.
- Binta Brown, Associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore
- Samara Barend, director of STV Inc. (Engineering firm that did the Cross Harbor Freight Tunnel study)
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