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November 21, 2000
TED M. MATLEY
Executive Director, WILMAPCO
Both Gubernatorial candidates declared that
there will be changes at DelDOT, starting with a new Secretary
of Transportation. Change has already come to transportation
in Delaware in the form of Ted Matley.
Ted became the new Executive Director of
WILMAPCO, the Wilmington Area Planning Council, on July 31st.
WILMAPCO is the federally-mandated Metropolitan Planning Organization
(MPO) responsible for coordination, review and approval of
transportation plans and projects in New Castle County, Delaware
and Cecil County, Maryland.
Ted Matley has over 10 years of transportation
planning experience in both the public and private sectors.
He most recently worked as a transportation consultant with
Frederic R. Harris, Inc. Prior to that he was Director of
Planning and Information Technology with the New Jersey Transportation
Planning Authority (NJTPA), a MPO that coordinates transportation
plans for over 5 million people from 13 counties.
One of the most pressing transportation
issues Ted faces is Delaware's air quality conformity under
the Clean Air Act Amendments. Delaware faces loss of federal
transportation dollars unless it produces a plan that meets
federal standards within the next 6 months. Ted brings the
experience of having directed the transportation and air quality
conformity process for NJTPA.
Ted also brings a new, welcome, perspective
to an agency which has frequently been viewed as anti-economic
development. He has already taken note of the fact that the
WILMAPCO 2025 Metropolitan Transportation Plan does
not adequately address the relationship of transportation
and economic development and points out that one of the federal
requirements for MPOs is that they facilitate economic development
in their transportation planning.
Ted brings a combination of practical experience
and academic training to his work. He has a Bachelors degree
in Geography and a Masters in City and Regional Planning from
Rutgers University where he is working towards a Ph.D. in
Planning and Public Policy.
Ted will share both his view of the challenges
and his vision for transportation solutions in New Castle
County.
Beverley Baxter
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