Are you blocking posters with ideas that you are incapable of defending against?

What is perfect job description for the new DOT director?

Might the livable streets community drafted a non-partisan job description for the next USDOT Secretary?

Here is an interesting model:
Who should be our next U.S. Secretary of Agriculture?
This wiki is to help those on the ground working toward community food security for our nation to help influence the next Secretary of Agriculture appointment.
http://agriculturesecretary.pbwiki.com/

This petition to the Mayor is calling for the executive to consider this a priority for the citizens of the District; to bring someone in who will work with its planning and policy branch to develop and implement cutting edge solutions (such as described in this forum) as seen in New York, Portland and elsewhere, when considering pedestrian and bicycle safety, etc.

It's perfectly understandable. We're trying to cling to our claims to fame like "first pizza," "first hamburger," "first Frisbee," "first patent for bicycle," "Amistad happened here" etc. etc. in order to forget that the current president was also born here.

Perhaps D.C. is first planned "metropolis" but that's a technicality and depends on how you define metropolis and when D.C. became one.