Rafael Ortega is not the sort of man you’d expect to meet in the Ramsey County offices in St Paul, Minnesota. As a product of the Lower East Side with a degree from Fordham, he’s brought a brand new perspective to transportation since taking office in 1995.
“Nothing’s going to be on the scale of New York but look, for us to be competitive as a region we gotta invest more in transit,” said Ortega. “I got into this because my first year in office I went up to the capital [and] nobody on the board gave a hoot about transit, to be honest with you.”
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