Kenneth Orski
C. Kenneth Orski is editor and publisher of Innovation NewsBriefs, an infuential and widely read transportation newsletter
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C. Kenneth Orski is editor and publisher of Innovation NewsBriefs, an influential and widely read transportation newsletter, now in its 19th year of publication. Mr. Orski has worked professionally in the field of transportation for close to 40 years. He served as Associate Administrator of the Urban Mass Transportation Administration under President Nixon and President Ford and, after leaving government, founded a transportation consultancy serving private clients and agencies in federal, state and local government. In other transportation-related activities, he has directed MIT's International Mobility Observatory, served on numerous state and federal transportation advisory bodies and was a member of President George W. Bush’s Transportation Policy Task Force and the Bush-Cheney transportation transition team. Earlier in his career, he served as Vice President of the German Marshall Fund, an executive of the General Dynamics Corporation and as a senior officer in the United States Foreign Service. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.
Reforming the Nation's Transportation Agenda
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <tbody> <tr> <td class="content" valign="top" bgcolor="#f1f1f1"><span style="font-family: Arial"> <div> <span style="font-family: Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial"> <div> <p> <span style="font-size: x-small">For over a year now, calls have multiplied to give the surface transportation program a new sense of direction. With near unanimity, the transportation community, along with most congressional lawmakers and state and local officials, have concluded that the current program has lost its focus and lacks a clear mission and a guiding purpose. A bipartisan consensus has developed that perpetuating the status quo is not the answer.