“…They include: MBTA board chair and former Lynn state senator Tom McGee; current undersecretary and highway administrator Jonathan Gulliver; Healey’s federal funding czar Quentin Palfrey; Brian Kane, head of the MBTA Advisory Board, and Samantha Silverberg, a former MassDOT and White House staffer who’s now at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Kane, for one, isn’t shy about his intentions.
‘For someone like me who’s in public service, it’s the ultimate job,’ he told me. And Kane already knows what he would do on day one: Push to have more housing built by commuter rail stations. But Kane is a realist. The governor doesn’t need another transit expert. She’s got Eng…”
By Shirley Leung | 2/5/2026