now you are worried about someone who sets the timing on traffic lights, and figures out which roads to close for construction?
who even wants the job, now its some plumb position for a prominent conservative to be NYC DOT commissioner? Like William F Buckley wants to decide if I can make a left onto 6th avenue?
Chuck Schumer's wife learned this when she was personally named in several massive civil lawsuits in the aftermath of the Staten Island Ferry disaster a couple of years ago.