FHWA Chief Capka to Step Down
Federal Highway Administration chief Rick Capka will leave the agency next month, he said in an e-mail to FHWA staff.
Capka has headed the agency since August 2005 and has been with FHWA since 2002, when he was appointed deputy administrator.
He took over as acting administrator when Mary Peters — who is now Transportation Secretary — resigned in 2005, and was formally sworn in as full-time administrator in May 2006.
Peters said in a statement that Capka “leaves the department with an exceptional record of accomplishment,” citing his responses to the collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis last year and to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 as examples.
Prior to joining FHWA, Capka oversaw the Central Artery project in Boston — also known as the “Big Dig” — as head of the Massachusetts Turpike Authority.
Capka did not say what he planned to do after leaving FHWA.
