{"id":126434,"date":"2020-12-04T21:03:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T18:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/de-blasio-picks-margaret-forgione-to-take-over-dot\/"},"modified":"2020-12-04T21:03:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T18:03:45","slug":"de-blasio-picks-margaret-forgione-to-take-over-dot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/de-blasio-picks-margaret-forgione-to-take-over-dot\/","title":{"rendered":"#De Blasio picks Margaret Forgione to take over DOT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#De Blasio picks Margaret Forgione to take over DOT<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/Margeret-Forgione-DOT-mayors-office.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Longtime Department of Transportation official Margeret Forgione is taking over for outgoing Commissioner Polly Trottenberg, City Hall said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Forgione, a senior DOT leader since the Giuliani administration, will assume the role in an acting capacity on Dec. 11. She has served as the agency\u2019s chief operating officer since 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMargaret Forgione is a polished manager with a deep understanding of DOT and the vision to build on the agency\u2019s extraordinary response to the COVID-19 crisis,\u201d Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Forgione previously served 14 years as DOT\u2019s Manhattan borough commissioner, where she oversaw controversial projects including the Times Square pedestrian plazas and the rollout of Citi Bike, City Hall said.<\/p>\n<p>She takes the reins from Trottenberg, who recently took an unpaid role in President-elect Joe Biden\u2019s transition team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCommissioner Trottenberg made historic strides in improving safety and mobility throughout her tenure and then guided us through the pandemic,\u201d Forgione said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u00a0look forward to continuing and building on this essential work to create a safe and livable street network to support the city in enduring through the pandemic and thriving beyond it.\u201d\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. Follow us on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMLG0nwswvr63Aw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Google News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0too, click on the star and choose us from your favorites.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">News category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/12\/04\/de-blasio-picks-margaret-forgione-to-take-over-dot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#De Blasio picks Margaret Forgione to take over DOT&#8221; Longtime Department of Transportation official Margeret Forgione is taking over for outgoing Commissioner Polly Trottenberg, City Hall said Friday. Forgione, a senior DOT leader since the Giuliani administration, will assume the role in an acting capacity on Dec. 11. She has served as the agency\u2019s chief&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":126435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/Margeret-Forgione-DOT-mayors-office.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[82641,5042,69348,71328,73295],"class_list":["post-126434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-12-4-20","tag-bill-de-blasio","tag-city-hall","tag-department-of-transportation","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}