She oversees transit, traffic operations and transportation planning.
Diego Ribadeneira, an editor who oversees transit and infrastructure coverage and edits Ms. Fitzsimmons's work, agreed.
The two commissions with no minority members are the nine-member Utility Advisory Commission, which controls the city's water and power company, and the seven-member Transportation Commission, which oversees transit policy.
"She practices and preaches the gospel of where transit has to go in the next 30 years," says Thomas Prendergast, chief of TransLink, which oversees transportation for 22 municipalities in British Columbia.
The purchase was approved by a board committee of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which oversees the transit agency.
"We are competing with the people who are able to use private vehicles," admits Kumropluk Suraswadi, the urban planner who oversees the transit projects.
The figures were among a raft of dismal performance numbers included in a report to the board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which oversees the transit agency.
"I think riders definitely want to know that the system is being maintained and is not going to break down on them, and I think they'll understand an occasional delay," said Andrew Albert, a member of the board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which oversees the transit agency.
"We are looking at a number of options, including the fare hike," Tom Kelly, a spokesman for the authority, said yesterday Yesterday, at the monthly meeting of the authority's subcommittee that oversees New York City Transit Lines, Barry Feinstein, chairman of that committee, said he would rather see a fare hike than service cuts.
There was a hearing touting Republicans' pet claim that the private sector was superior to the public sector in overseeing mass transit.
