“I unfortunately think that the FTA is following an old playbook, where they sort of just stopped work, ask agencies to send them more paperwork and don’t offer meaningful solutions,”

“Now there are clear leadership structures internally where we'll know if something goes wrong, who was responsible for those challenges,”

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“In any administration, there’s always the first secretary to go. So this just happens to be Gina Fiandaca,”

“This job,” Thompson said, “is less about ribbon cuttings and more about operations.”

"But we didn't really see Gina out front a lot," she said. "It's hard to exactly name what she was or was not doing."

“He walked into the middle of a pandemic which turned into an abject safety crisis under an administration that wasn’t willing to give him the resources he needed,”

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Stacy Thompson, executive director of LivableStreets Alliance, a nonprofit transportation advocacy organization, said preventing the close calls that caught the attention of federal regulators requires focusing on basic principles like training and procedures.