Commission History
The date the Commission approved the first Cost Allocation Policy.
What is September 17, 2015
Robert Caro wrote a Pulitzer Prize winning biography about this NY transportation leader.
Who is Robert Moses?
The president many wish we had from the West Wing.
Who is President Bartlett?
These two men served as Secretary of Transportation under President Obama.
Who are Ray LaHood and Anthony Foxx?
This Silver Spring establishment is home to the best beer in the DC metro area.
What is Silver Branch?
This city has hosted the most Commission meetings.
What is Philadelphia?
A popular BBC miniseries was based on this 19th century novel.
What is Pride and Prejudice?
Breaking Bad's good guy gone bad. (The character and the actor)
Who are Walter White and Bryan Cranston?
This upstart firm passed this corporation as the most valuable automobile company in the world this past summer.
Who are Tesla and Toyota
This Nationals player has been with the team since their first season in 2005.
Who is Ryan Zimmerman?
This current Commission member and alternate have been members or alternates since the Commission's first meeting in 2010.
Who are Stephen Gardner and Steve Devine?
This is the Amazon best-selling book of 2020.
What is A Promised Land by Barack Obama?
This New Jersey-based TV show featured Tony, Carmela, Meadow, Paulie, and Christopher.
What is The Sopranos?
Esquire named this 1994 film the all-time best movie about public transportation.
What is Speed?
This Metro Station has consistently been the system's busiest.
What is Union Station?
Name the first six full-time Commission staffers in order hired. (Bonus if you include the part-time and contact employees).
Who are Mitch Warren, Meredith Slesinger, Donnie Maley, (Valerie Samuels), Rob Padgette, (Sophy Chen), Jeremy Steinemann, and Dave Dieck?
Voted best book of the 20th century on Goodreads.
What is To Kill A Mockingbird?
This 1980s sitcom is your host's all-time favorite tv show.
What is Cheers?
These are the five people who have served as NEC Commission vice-chairs and co-chairs from U.S. DOT since 2010.
Who are Roy Kienitz, Polly Trottenberg, Peter Rogoff, Sarah Feinberg, and Ron Batory?
This art-deco theater, the last of DC's grand movie palaces, closed in March 2020.
What is the Uptown?
These were the members of the Executive Committee at Mitch's first Commission meeting as ED (June 2011 in Boston). Name at least 5.
Who were Joan McDonald, Roy Kienitz, Stephen Gardner, Jeff Mullan, Joe Szabo, and Al Engel?
Goodreads readers named this book the best historical fiction book of 2020.
What is The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett?
These are the six main characters from The Good Place. (Name five).
Who are Eleanor Shellstrop, Chidi, Jason, Tahani, Michael, and Janet?
These were the six busiest Amtrak stations on the Northeast Corridor in 2019 (in order).
What are NY Penn Station, Washington Union Station, 30th Street Station, Boston South Station, Baltimore Penn Station, and New Haven Union Station/Providence (either is ok)?
This was the year when DC residents were first able to cast votes for President.
What was 1964?