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Former Mass. Transportation Chief To Head Boston Olympic Organization

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill

Published January 23, 2015 at 4:25 PM EST

Richard Davey was Massachusetts Transportation Secretary from 2011-2014

Richard Davey was Massachusetts Transportation Secretary from 2011-2014

Former Massachusetts Transportation Secretary Richard Davey is taking over as chief executive of the non-profit group trying to bring the Olympics to Boston.

With his knowledge of the state’s public transit system, Davey can help make the case for the publically-paid for projects that will necessary to pull off what boosters say will be the most walkable Olympics in modern history. David Manfredi, one of the planner’s of Boston’s bid to host the 2024 summer games said the effort depends on transit projects now in the planning pipeline getting built.

" We have planned the games into the current infrastructure and we have planned into the future infrastructure."

The International Olympic Committee will announce the location of the 2024 games in 2017

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Paul Tuthill

Paul Tuthill is WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief. He’s been covering news, everything from politics and government corruption to natural disasters and the arts, in western Massachusetts since 2007. Before joining WAMC, Paul was a reporter and anchor at WRKO in Boston. He was news director for more than a decade at WTAG in Worcester. Paul has won more than two dozen Associated Press Broadcast Awards. He won an Edward R. Murrow award for reporting on veterans’ healthcare for WAMC in 2011. Born and raised in western New York, Paul did his first radio reporting while he was a student at the University of Rochester.

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