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The Regional Transportation District in Denver earned the top honor, the Team Achievement Award, at the 18th Annual APTA International Rail Rodeo, held June 5 at TransLink’s VCC/Clark Station in Vancouver, BC. The team – comprising first-place rail operator Robert Dennis and second-place rail maintainers Randall Lovegrove and George Sweeney – and the other winners received their awards June 6 at the Rail Rodeo Banquet held in conjunction with the APTA Rail Conference.

The Team Achievement Award goes to the competing public transportation system with the highest combined score in the operators’ and maintainers’ competitions.  The maintenance team from Los Angeles Metro – Glen Abraham, Ronnie Burt, and Eric Czintos – placed first in its competition. Representing the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) in Philadelphia, the team of Ed Carruthers, Mike O’Grady, and Jason Rickert took the third-place honor.

In the operators’ contest, SEPTA’s Adrian Mapp and Michael Shepard took second place, while Lee-Ann Knight and Ven Rao of BC Rapid Transit (SkyTrain) in Burnaby, BC, were in third place.

Competitors represented nine North American public transit agencies in the rail rodeo.

APTA Vice Chair-Rail Transit Gary Thomas also announced the names of the rodeo winners during the conference’s Opening General Session June 7.

APTA Chair M.P. Carter, left, and APTA President William Millar, second from right, join Gary Thomas, right, APTA vice chair-rail transit, in presenting the Team Achievement Award to Denver’s Regional Transportation District (RTD). Representing RTD are, from second from left: Phil Eberl, manager of vehicle maintenance; maintainers George Sweeney and Randall Lovegrove; and operator Robert Dennis.

RTD’s Dennis, center, joined by Eberl, second from left, accepts the first-place award for rail operators from Carter, left; Millar, second from right; and Thomas, right.	The members of the Los Angeles Metro rail maintenance team that took first place in the maintainers’ competition are Glen Abraham, fifth from right; Ronnie Burt, fourth from right; and Eric Czintos, third from right. Carter is fourth from left; Millar, second from right; and Thomas, far right.

 

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