Last year Jim Sebastian, who came to DDOT back in 2001 as the Bicycle Coordinator, was promoted to be the Associate Director for Planning and Sustainability which left no specific person in charge of the Active Transportation Branch. That's the group that manages biking, walking, Capital Bikeshare, Transportation Demand Management, Safe Routes to Schools and probably some other things I missed.
At this month's BAC meeting it was announced that George Branyan, who's been DDOT's Pedestrian Program Coordinator for the last 13 years, will be filling that role permanently (update: though it has been split into two with Kim Lucas as the other person taking over part of the portfolio). I guess now they need to hire a new pedestrian lead.
Anyway, that fills one of the three lead jobs that were empty when the year started.
I'm not sure if Arlington is going to fill the Bicycle & Pedestrian Programs Manager job that David Goodman used to do or if they're just going to stick with their current staff (I'm less familiar with how it works over there and the BAC doesn't have it's notes up from the December meeting when it was discussed).
I'm also not aware if Alexandria has hired anyone to fill the Pedestrian and Bicycle Program Manager position that they advertised.
Update: Darren Buck is Alexandria's Pedestrian and Bicycle Program Manager. Ritch Viola was transferred into David Goodman's old role. George was promoted, but the job was split in two, with Kim Lucas now overseeing bikeshare & TDM. DDOT recently posted jobs to fill three bike/ped positions: George's, Kim's, and Darren's.
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