Anonymous commenters whispering deep inside DM posts had been saying this would happen.

At first I was a bit skeptical that Mayor Kasim Reed would be added to the Transportation Roundtable executive committee, just days after the five members were announced.  But I followed up with a few contacts and eventually came across word of this Thursday meeting.  However, I’m no Maria Saporta, so I didn’t get any post-details of the event.

According a recent post on Saporta’s website, Reed will likely take the spot of Norcross Mayor Bucky Johnson on the metro area’s five-person Transportation Roundtable Executive Committee after a Thursday meeting in House Speaker David Ralston’s office.  And in case you haven’t been following along and were wondering what was wrong with the current make-up of the committee, Saporta summarizes it nicely…

When the Roundtable selected its executive committee in mid-December, the only member in the three MARTA jurisdictions (Atlanta, Fulton and DeKalb) was Decatur Mayor Bill Floyd. The other four members came from the suburbs. All five also were white.

That did not sit well with many people in the urban, transit-oriented areas of the region, an area that has nearly half of metro Atlanta’s population.

Reed will join Decatur Mayor Bill Floyd as a second Exec Committee member representing the populous Atlanta/Fulton/DeKalb area.