Washington, DC has been doing some good things in smart growth and transportation terms in recent years. The lead agency doing progressive work in this field has normally been the planning department rather than the Department of Transportation. Back in July, DC transportation chief Emeka Moneme resigned and David Alpert launched a position urging the Fenty administration to appoint a bold reformer to fill the job, someone along the lines of the picks Fenty has already made for the Department of Education and the Department of Planning or Jeannette Sadik-Khan in the Department of Transportation in NYC.
One of the people who signed the petition was Gabe Klein, a former executive with Zipcar — a firm that has a strong interest in transportation reform. And now comes the news that Fenty has tapped Klein to head the Department of Transportation. The Fenty administration’s transportation policy instincts have mostly been in the right direction, and Klein seems to me like a guy who may be ready to shift things into a higher gear.
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