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Re: Jay Walder Says His Replacement Doesn’t Need Transit Background |
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Posted by randyo on Thu Sep 29 15:40:35 2011, in response to Jay Walder Says His Replacement Doesn’t Need Transit Background, posted by Gold_12TH on Wed Sep 28 18:53:21 2011. I think that one of the biggest mistakes being made in this country is that we seem to be espousing the theory that since the definition of "management" is getting things done through other people, that a managed does not need to have a working knowledge of the area to be managed. It would be unthinkable to have the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff at the Pentagon come from a non military background and common sense mandates that a police chief have a police background and preferable from the particular force he/she is to head, yet nobody seems to raise any eyebrows if a non transportation individual is appointed to run a transit agency especially one of the magnitude of the NY MTA. No other transit system in the country or possible even the world with the possible exception of London comes anywhere close to the complexity of the NY transit system, yet often managers from other "Toonerville Trolley" like systems come to NY thinking that they can manage the NY system. No disrespect to David Gunn, but there was a lot of brouhaha over his appointment as NYCT president citing his management of SEPTA. Just a portion of the NYCTS does more railroading than the entire SEPTA system including its commuter railroad service yet nobody in the press at the time though to bring that up. It is a crying shame that neither the MTA nor its constituent agencies can provide a home grown person capable of running the system unless perhaps such people exist and our elected officials are just too clueless to recognize them. Regardless of Walder's attitude towards a potential MTA manager, if an MTA head cannot be picked from within the agency, whoever does eventually get the appointment has a non negotiable OBLIGATION to attain and maintain an exhaustively encyclopedic knowledge of the operation of the MTA and all its constituent agencies. |
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