21.   His interest in transportation issues, including rail service, led him to declare late last year that his Cabinet post preference was transportation secretary.

22.   In addition to heading the Red Cross, she was transportation secretary under President Reagan and secretary of labor under President Bush.

23.   In her role as transportation secretary, she was responsible for the U.S. Coast Guard, becoming the first woman to head a branch of the military.

24.   In the previous Bush administration she served as deputy transportation secretary, and more recently she headed the United Way.

25.   It is heartening that the FAA administrator, Jane Garvey, and new transportation secretary, Norman Mineta, have spoken in favor of a congestion-pricing concept.

26.   It was conceived by Drew Lewis, a former RNC official and federal transportation secretary, according to Bennett, the director.

27.   Later served as transportation secretary in Clinton administration.

28.   None of this sounds much like a recipe for the goal espoused by the departing transportation secretary at the beginning of this year, zero accidents.

29.   Norman Mineta, the transportation secretary, said he hoped to have a package of assistance ready early next week.

30.   Not true, says Alan Altshuler, former state transportation secretary and a resident of Belmont Hill.