February 2025
Michael Fleischer has been engaged in transportation policy in NYS for nearly 30 years, including leadership positions at the highest levels of NYS’s major transportation agencies during the administrations of four governors. Fleischer served as executive director of the Thruway from 2003-2011 where he developed and executed a statewide campaign to build support for the financing of a multiyear capital program. Fleischer worked at DOT from 1995-2003 including serving as first deputy commissioner where he was directly responsible for the development and implementation of the annual highway and bridge program.
