Posted on 01/25/2021 3:37:57 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
MassDOT Secretary Stephanie Pollack has been appointed to the new Biden-Harris administration as the new Deputy Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration.
Pollack has led MassDOT since 2015, at the beginning of Governor Charlie Baker’s first term. Before she joined the state government, Pollack had been Associate Director for Research at the Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University, and an attorney and director of the Conservation Law Foundation (CLF).
As a CLF attorney in the 1990s, Pollack helped negotiate a package of significant transit improvements that the state promised to build as mitigation for its “Big Dig” highway projects (editor’s note: CLF is also the nonprofit fiscal agent of StreetsblogMASS).
But while the Big Dig’s highways were finished by the mid-2000s, the transit mitigation projects remain incomplete to this day.
Many advocates had hoped that the CLF advocate who had fought for those transit projects in the 1990s would finally make them a priority once she took the helm at MassDOT. And under Pollack’s leadership, MassDOT did manage to shepherd struggling projects into construction, including the Green Line Extension and the South Coast commuter rail project.
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Hahaha...I had to go look up the medical term for tunnel phobia...but there isn’t one.
Dang! They have a name for nearly every OTHER phobia...
Like so many Libs she is promoted for her “advocacy” and promises far more than any accomplishments; where often raised budgets are celebrated regardless of what actually gets accomplished by them.
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