DOT Commissioner Water Cooler Chatter
Janette Sadik-Khan is a front-runner to take over as DOT Commissioner after Iris Weinshall leaves the job on April 13. “It’s her job. She just has to decide whether she wants it.”
Joan McDonald, senior vice president at the Economic Development Corporation, has been ruled out. She will not get the job.
Dan Doctoroff’s headhunters are soliciting resumes from the Land of Congestion Charging. One name that comes up is Jay Walder (right) who just resigned after six years as Transport for London’s Managing Director for Finance and Planning to take a job at McKinsey. The well-liked New Yorker worked at the MTA with Bob Kiley and joined Kiley at TfL back in 2001 to help get London’s congestion charging system up and running.
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