Position: Secretary - Transportation

Type of Appointment/Position: Presidential with Senate confirmation    

Janette Sadik-Khan

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Nominee's Background: Janette Sadik-Khan is President and CEO of Company 39, a communications company that is a subsidiary of Parsons Brinckerhoff, which provides multidisciplinary planning, engineering and construction management services worldwide. Ms. Sadik-Khan serves on the firms Global Management Committee and is a nationally recognized expert in innovative finance, public policy development and transportation issues. Before joining the firm, Ms. Sadik-Khan was deputy administrator at the U.S. Department of Transportation, where she was responsible for administration of federal assistance to the nation's transit agencies. Previously she was Chief Financial Officer of the Federal Transit Administration, where she managed the agencys $4 billion annual capital construction budget. Before her tenure in Washington D.C. she served as Transportation Advisor to the Mayor of New York City and as counsel to the Commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation. She is a graduate of Occidental College and the Columbia University School of Law. Recently selected as a Rockefeller Fellow, Ms. Sadik-Khan is a visiting scholar at New York University's Wagner School and serves on several research panels under the National Academy of Science. She is a Board member of the Women's Transportation Seminar and serves on the Legislative and Rules committees of the American Public Transit Association. She is Chair of the Board of Directors of Reconnecting America. Nominating Speech: To research this nominee, please look for them on the Wikipedia website or at Google.

Progressive Criteria: The Transportation Department will Initiate a comprehensive review of the nation's transportation system, looking into coordination of the various elements, comprehensiveness and efficiency; Engage in long-term infrastructure planning with emphasis on sustainability and preservation of our environment; Protect and promote Amtrak - particularly where it is a reasonable alternative to car or air transportation; Enforce rigorous safety and fuel efficiency standards; Work to even the playing field for public transportation.

• Blame the city for 'cycles' of violence
  Good luck to Community Board 7, which has the audac ity to want bicycle deliverymen to wear proper ID and, God forbid, obey traffic laws. Upper West Side residents tired of the terror will likely have to live with it, even if it means limping from injuries caused by careless...
• Reckless Bike Riding Deliverymen Terrorize UWS!
  djwerdna's Flickr Nothing beats a great pair of NY Post diatribes on the subject of cycling, and that goes double when one of the ranters is columnist Steve " He Who Yells At Cloud " Cuozzo. As you may know, bike lanes and pedestrian plazas have been a boil on Cuozzo's neck for too long, and his latest screed , prompted by complaints about reckless delivery men on the Upper West Side, is ...
• DOT to turn streets into fun sites
  Pedestrians wont be limited to the sidewalk when Summer Streets returns to New York next month.
• Times Squares Great White Way Turns Blue
  A new public art project has transformed Times Squares pedestrian plazas into a river of blue.
• 'E. River' bridge
  The new Willis Avenue Bridge is home. This photo -- with the Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan skyline in the background -- shows the span concluding its 110-mile journey along the Hudson and East rivers yesterday. The 300-plus-foot swing drawbridge arrived around 7:30 a.m. atop two barges, moving at...
• New Willis Ave. Bridge floats toward home
  The new Willis Avenue Bridge drifted into New York harbor earlier this morning and slipped under the Brooklyn Bridge towards its new home in the Harlem River. The 300-plus foot span arrived on the east river at 7:30 am atop two barges, moving at a snails pace to...
• Willis Avenue Bridge Floating Into Place
  A 350-foot-long replacement bridge for the Willis Avenue Bridge has arrived in New York City aboard two barges. The 2,400-ton swing bridge passed under the Brooklyn Bridge at 8 a.m. Monday. The bridge is replacing the existing 109-year-old span that connects Upper Manhattan and the South Bronx.
• New Willis Avenue Bridge Journeys Up East River
  The new Willis Avenue Bridge made its way up the East River on a barge today on its way to its home on the Harlem River.
• New Willis Avenue Bridge Arrives in Bayonne
  A 350-foot bridge floated into New York harbor under the cover of night this morning. Its the replacement span for the Willis Avenue Bridge and was built near Albany and sent down the river. New York Citys Department of Transportation assembled the bridge in Coeymans, New York to avoid the impact that construction would have had on the F.D.R. Drive and Major Deegan Expressway, which are both ...
• Killer Bikes Terrorize NY! Pedestrians, Drivers Under Siege!
  Jamie NYC's Flickr Everybody knows bicycle riders have turned our city's streets and sidewalks into utter death traps , but most New Yorkers have meekly submitted to the two-wheeled tyranny of cyclists and their leader, DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan. Most, but not all The New York Post has mounted a courageous counterattack against bike riders and their precious lanes , which have taken ...