Following a nationwide search, the San Diego Association of Governments has announced that Mario Orso will take over after the 2023 resignation of Hasan Ikhrata.
The regional planning agency, whose polarizing former leader Hasan Ikhrata left last year, is now under scrutiny for its management and contracting practices and issues with tolling software.
SANDAG appointed Mario Orso, the current chief deputy director of the California Department of Transportation District 11, as the next person to lead the agency, it announced Friday.
She blamed construction delays on the U.S. side of the border where the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) and the California Department of Transportation have yet to begin the work on the crossing, which was supposed to be done by September.