Stuart Adams to Head Transportation Commission
Stuart Adams is going to take over the reins of the Transportation Commission. This is fantastic. Stuart is extremely smart, patient and fair. He entered the Legislature one term after me. Though it was immediately obvious that he was gifted, I first took close notice of him when, during floor debate on a bill I was running during his first term, he rolled me up in a ball and started bouncing me across the chamber. It was a Butch Cassidy moment; I was thinking, "Who is that guy? He's good."
From the article, it sounds like the news might have been dropped abruptly on current chair Glen Brown. If so, that's unfortunate. Glen has served the State well in many capacities, including his excellent and lengthy tenure as chair of the commission.
From the article, it sounds like the news might have been dropped abruptly on current chair Glen Brown. If so, that's unfortunate. Glen has served the State well in many capacities, including his excellent and lengthy tenure as chair of the commission.
posted by steve u. at 5/23/2007
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Is it just me or are all the transportation entities in this state being packed with pro-road people? Didn't Legacy Highway crusader John Petroff just become chairman of the WFRC? Is Glen Brown being abruptly dumped due to his opposition to the recent legislative effort to destroy the UTA? And hasn't that bill, coincidentally, just resurfaced?
It looks like the road interests are lining up their guns for a full-scale assault on transit funding in favor of roads. Many transit advocates expressed their concerns about the loopholes built into proposition 3 that would result in a dogfight for transportation funds between road and transit interests. It looks to me like those fears are becoming reality as the road interests position their big dogs.
Your questions point out the problem. Transportation and transit for the most part are siloed (UDOT and UTA, respectively). I don't believe it's accurate to say that efforts to combine the two areas into the same department are simply efforts to destroy UTA. I believe the intent is to coordinate roads and transit. And, most people would agree that makes sense conceptually. As long as we have competing silos (e.g., your "full-scale assault observation), we'll struggle to have an integrated system.
I'm not in the know on how the decision was made, but after 13 years at the helm I'd simply guess it was time to change things up. There were many changes on many boards and commissions.
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