We hoped we had written our last word about Jim Aloisi, but the now-departed transportation chief left us with a 12-page ode to his own greatness that simply can not be ignored.

After 10 months in the job Aloisi last week submitted a “close-out report” to Gov. Deval Patrick, and it is equal parts credit-hogging, finger-pointing and butt-covering.

“Despite formidable obstacles, a strong platform for meaningful change has been built during my time in office - one that will serve your administration and the people of Massachusetts well,” the ever-so-humble Aloisi wrote. “I have established both a new way of doing business . . . and a new way of thinking about our state’s transportation needs.”

Yep, along with revenue, modesty is in exceedingly short supply with this administration.

The man who once compared himself to Churchill goes on to indict, at length, the administration’s transportation management prior to his own arrival. He is defensive about his much-maligned call for a massive increase in the gas tax. There is a hollow defense of the administration’s failure to spend federal stimulus dollars quickly, along with an effort to distance himself from the politically unpopular ouster of ex-MBTA general manager Dan Grabauskas.

And Aloisi spends a good chunk of the report, first obtained by the State House News Service, warning of the perils to come if the administration doesn’t pick up his torch.

Like Jim Aloisi we have our own concerns that the transportation reform effort will devolve into mere window-dressing. But the impression this letter leaves is that without his guidance we are all doomed to failure. With all due respect, no state bureaucrat is that indispensable.