Mayor Gray has selected Terry Bellamy, DDOT’s interim director, as its permanent head. Gabe Klein hired Bellamy from Arlington to be deputy director of operations. Klein tweeted that the pick was the “right choice.”

Klein told Adam Tuss, “I was the Michelle Rhee of transportation, and [Bellamy] balanced me out.” At the press conference, Gray said his top priorities for Bellamy are to complete the H Street streetcar/streetscape and 11th Street bridge projects.

David Alpert created Greater Greater Washington in 2008 and was its executive director until 2020. He formerly worked in tech and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco Bay, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and two children in Dupont Circle.