President Eisenhower’s most lasting achievement is either the term “military-

industrial complex” or the Interstate highway system. His leadership made our highways the best in the world (for good and ill). We need a leader with equal vision to invest in a world-class national transit infrastructure, where we lag far behind Europe. This analogy sprang from a recent conversation with Rob Goodspeed. Photo by wallyg on Flickr.

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David Alpert created Greater Greater Washington in 2008 and was its executive director until 2020. He formerly worked in tech and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco Bay, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and two children in Dupont Circle.