- John Cogliano
John Cogliano is an American
businessman , and a formerMassachusetts Secretary of Transportation . He was appointed to the position by formerGovernor Mitt Romney in May 2005. CurrentMassachusetts Governor Deval Patrick replaced Cogliano in January 2007 with currentMassachusetts Secretary of Transportation , Bernard Cohen.Education
John graduated from
Boston College with a degree inPolitical Science andEconomics . He later studied Administration andManagement atHarvard University .Before the Massachusetts Highway Department
Before being appointed Highway Department Commissioner in 2002, Cogliano held a number of senior management posts at the agency. Secretary Cogliano also worked for five years at the Massachusetts Division of Capital Planning and Operations and at his family-owned business on the South Shore of
Massachusetts . [ [http://www.eot.state.ma.us/default.asp?pgid=content/bio01&sid=bio The Executive Office of Transportation Biography of John Cogliano] 2006]Commissioner of the Massachusetts Highway Department
John Cogliano served as Commissioner of the
Massachusetts Highway Department . As Commissioner, he managed more than 1,800 employees and a budget of $700 million. During his tenure, Cogliano advanced a number of the Romney Administration's key initiatives, such as implementing the Fix it First and Communities First policies, streamlining operations and reducing bureaucratic inefficiencies and Red Tape at the Highway Department, implementing the use ofGPS technology to bring accountability to MassHighway's snow and ice operations, accelerating spending on road and bridge projects to a minimum of $450 million a year, and breaking ground on the project to eliminate the Sagamore Rotary. He also helped develop the Romney Administration's Long-Range Transportation Plan, which calls for $31 billion in transportation improvements over the next 20 years and will serve as a blueprint for carrying out projects and policies under his Secretariat. [ [http://www.eot.state.ma.us/default.asp?pgid=content/bio01&sid=bio The Executive Office of Transportation Biography of John Cogliano] 2006]Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation
Not three months after being named Secretary of Transportation, Cogliano began a quiet "shake-up of Massachusetts' transportation bureaucracy, by freezing new hires, putting more than 250 additional employees under his control in preparation for streamlining, and initiating the relocation of the Registry of Motor Vehicles from expensive Copley Square offices to more modest downtown digs." [ [http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/08/31/state_transit_secretary_quietly_begins_shake_up_to_cut_costs/ State Transit Secretary Quietly Begins Shake Up to Cut Costs]
The Boston Globe August 31 ,2005 ]Massachusetts Turnpike Authority
After Cogliano was replaced as
Secretary of Transportation by currentGovernor Deval Patrick , Cogliano was allowed to keep the job of Chairman of theMassachusetts Turnpike Authority given to him by formerGovernor Mitt Romney . Chairman Cogliano has recently ordered annual inspections of all tunnel ceilings on theMassachusetts Turnpike . These inspections were fueled by the death of a woman in the summer of 2006 due to the collapse of a tunnel ceiling. [ [http://news.bostonherald.com/localPolitics/view.bg?articleid=177632 Turnpike head orders annual tunnel ceiling inspections]The Boston Herald January 17 ,2007 ]Bernard Cohen replaced Cogliano as Turnpike Authority Chairman on July 1, 2007.References
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