Duggan Fires DDOT Chief - Declares Population Will Be Growing By Next Election 2017

[downtownguy]

So, the new director starts next week. From Crain's:

John Roach, Mayor Mike Duggan's communications director, said the new DDOT director is from out of state and could be named publicly this week. The director is expected to start work by Jan. 15.

What perplexes me is how Duggan says he decided to do this after seeing folks standing out in the snow yesterday. OK, fine. But you already have somebody from out of state lined up? I suspect he wanted to do this from the get go, which is also fine, but why make it all based the poor performance in the weather this week? We all know D-DOT has been a mess for a long time. You don't need to use a snow storm to blame it on.

I thought this was also curious:

Paul Toliver, an MV Transportation employee who has been running DDOT since September, will report to the new director for the duration of MV's contract, which is scheduled to expire in September, Roach said.