A little over a year after he became New Jersey’s transportation commissioner for the second time, Jamie Fox is leaving on Oct. 9 to return the private sector.
Deputy Commissioner Joseph Bertoni will take over as acting commissioner.
Fox, who had also served as commissioner in 2002, returned to the job in September 2014 with a goal to renew the state's Transportation Trust Fund, whose funding is set to expire in July 2017.
"I had hoped that we could secure a credible long-term solution for the Transportation Trust Fund within a year," Fox said in a statement. "I deeply regret we were unable to do so … but I thank the governor for the opportunity to serve and hope he is able to reach the needed solutions to our state's transportation challenges.”
Fox was transportation commissioner under Gov. Jim McGreevey and had served as chairman of the board of New Jersey Transit and deputy executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
According to the local publication NorthJersey.com, Fox, who had been a lobbyist for United Airlines, had been accused of violating ethics laws by two former state officials for not recusing himself from a 2014 meeting concerning the airline's underperforming flights in Atlantic City.
