Virginia Transportation Commissioner David S. Ekern will step down as head of the Virginia Department of Transportation on Friday.
"Effective Jan. 15, 2010, I will resign as commissioner," Ekern wrote Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, who appointed him to run VDOT in 2006.
Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell has begun a nationwide search for a new VDOT commissioner.
McDonnell has criticized the state's highway agency's operations as slow and bureaucratic.

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