Mayor Adrian M. Fenty today named a bunch of new executive honchos to new jobs. He's tapped Gabe Klein to head up DDOT; Lee A. Smith III to take over the Department of Small and Local Business Development; Bridget Davis to take over his policy and lobbying shop; and Tracy Sandler to replace Davis at the Office of Boards and Commissions.

The most attention-grabbing choice is his pick to lead the Department of Transportation. Probably more eyes were/will be on this pick than any of the others because of the ongoing campaigning by planning geeks/urbanists to put someone in charge who's at the cutting edge of urban transit trends. In a perfect world---barring somehow convincing current NYC transpo commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan to slum it in the District---they'd like to see a clone of Sadik-Khan, someone with a proven record of advocating for multimodal transit options, not just finding the most efficient ways to move cars through the city.

Is Klein that? Doesn't look like it. [UPDATE, 2 P.M.: LL may have spoken too soon; a "gabe klein" signed David Alpert's form letter asking for a "visionary" DDOT leader, adding these personal comments: "I agree, love Michelle Rhee, Harriet Tregoning, and of course Dan Tangherlini. Lets bring someone of that caliber in to take over DDOT, a hugely important position in Washington. For instance, without Dan Tangherlini's vision, carsharing would not be what it is in Washington (one of the top carsharing cities in the U.S.)"]

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Gabe Klein, co-founder of On the Fly, says his company ain't waitin' around to see if the D.C. Council loosens the vise-like regulations that have been choking street vendors. He's waited long enough to see if the city's climate will change for the better for mobile food vendors, so he's moving ahead with plans to improve our pathetic street snacks without the District's help.

Klein can't provide a ton of detail at this point, other than to say that On the Fly, is "really expanding, on a lot of fronts." The expansion will include more of On the Fly's land-locked Smartkafes, which can already be found at Results, The Gym, on Capitol Hill and at the Farragut North Metro station. Admittedly, those operations ain't gonna improve our curb-side snackage one bit, but Klein's plans also include more of the grasshopper-like carts that hawk a far more diverse array of foods---from tacos to gazpacho to barbecue---than the tin cans that currently dot our streets. Look for more of those green carts on school campuses, in Arlington, and along the Mall, where On the Fly has been conducting a pilot program. On the Fly is close to announcing a deal with the feds to keep those snacks flowing for tourists and locals alike.

More as we know it.