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RTD's Phil Washington, bound for big L.A. job, talks about Denver’s next big challenge

Phil Washington, the RTD general manager who’s credited with ensuring the sprawling FasTracks rail-construction project kept moving, said Friday that he’s not much for ribbon cuttings.

Washington, 57, who has led Denver’s Regional Transportation District since June 2009, leaves next Wednesday to be the new head of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the regional transit agency known as Metro.

The L.A. agency has 9,200 employees, operates 2,000 buses a day and carries…