Goodwin, Hautamaki retire, Mullan CEO Mass Pike, T Duvall to McKinsey, Lemon partner (PERSONNEL)

Harvey Goodwin, administrator of the Bureau of Turnpikes in the New Hampshire DOT since 1997 has retired from there last week at age 60. A civil engineer he worked most of his career in NHDOT, first in construction, then in bridge maintenance where he rose to the top. At the Turnpikes bureau he went through the conversion to electronic tolling and his last big push was for toll increases and to get authority to put open road tolling in at the I-95 mainline plaza in Hampton - with enabling legislation passed in the week of his retirement.

In New Hampshire every action - toll rates, widenings, new technology, budgets - have to be legislated so the toll people are constantly at legislative committee meetings dealing with politicians over every single thing they do.

Mullan last Mass Pike CEO

Jeffrey B Mullan, 47, was formally voted executive director of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority at the latest board meeting. Previously chief operating officer and undersecretary in the executive office of transportation (Massachusetts' equivalent of a state DOT) he worked for a Boston law firm before getting into state government.

Mullan is likely the last executive director of the Turnpike Authority since the legislature and the governor are intent on folding Turnpike operations into the Massachusetts Transportation and Infrastructure Authority, a new mega-agency along with the state highways department, and Boston trains and buses.

Hautamaki goes from HNTB

Jerry Hautamaki, 65, has retired from HNTB where he was a senior tolling specialist for many years, operating all over the country but based in their offices in Bellevue WA. He's doing some independent consulting and work for a public policy thinktank.

Duvall to McKinsey&Co

Tyler Duvall, 36, Mary Peters' assistant secretary and acting undersecretary for policy (#3 position) at USDOT has joined McKinsey and Company, international management consultants in New York. Duval, a tall, lean man was a well known spokesman for the administration and a driving force behind the renewed emphasis on congestion relief and the urban partnerships program.

A critic of earmarks and supporter of road pricing Duvall drew bizarre personal attacks from several politicians. Rep DeFazio told the Washington Post (March 2008) Duvall was a "pointy headed neocon with grand ideas about the future of transportation, and they all involve tolling... and are totally wrong."

DeFazio said Duvall and his colleagues were "just trying to undo 200 years of history and go back to the Boston Post Road" (which was actually financed and managed in the 19th century rather like the interstate system in the 20th century, by a mix of public and investor funds, but it didn't quite have variable pricing and all-electronic tolling supported by Duvall - editor)

Duvall was hailed by regional officials for his work to bring federal support for pricing of HOT lanes in the Los Angeles, Washington state, Minneapolis, and the Bay Area.

Lemon partner

Marcus J Lemon, 39, former general counsel at Federal Highway Administration is now a partner at the Washington DC law firm Baker & Miller working on transportation issues. Before his job at FHWA Lemon was corporate finance attorney.

Lemon currently spends his time between Washington DC and Lancaster PA where he grew up, and still has his home.

One of the projects he is involved is now is the Southern Gateway in Harrisburg PA. Tolls are being considered on the ramps of a new interchange with I-83 to help fund a redevelopment of the eastern approaches  to downtown Harrisburg.

TOLLROADSnews 2009-05-26