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Bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell addresses the 2010 APTA Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX.

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FTA Administrator Peter M. Rogoff greets the APTA Rail Conference in Vancouver, BC.

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Four buses--one each from New Flyer, Daimler Buses, Nova Bus, and MCI--participated in the ceremonial trip to the Capitol as part of the Sept. 22 Telling Our Story event.

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2010-2011 APTA Chair Michael J. Scanlon speaks at the Opening General Session of the APTA Annual Meeting.

Rebekah Huang, a summer intern in Caltrain's Office of Public Affairs, helped pass out reusable bags at the San Francisco Caltrain Station to call attention to National Dump the Pump Day June 17. The arch of black balloons represents the 27,000 gallons of fuel Caltrain riders save every day.

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APTA President William Millar, left, and Rep. James L. Oberstar (D-MN), outgoing chair of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, chat during the Sept. 22 Telling Our Story event in Washington.

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Joseph Szabo, administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration, speaks to the International Practicum on Implementing High-Speed Rail in the United States held in Los Angeles in February.

Supporters of California's Proposition 22 gather Nov. 2 to celebrate passage of the initiative. From left are California Transit Association legislative advocates Gus Khouri and Andrew Antwih and the association's executive director, Joshua Shaw.

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Standing behind the pyramid of petition boxes at Telling Our Story are, from left, WMATA Interim General Manager Richard Sarles; APTA President William Millar; Dave Rock; Althea Smith; Deanna Droira-Garcia; then-APTA Chair M.P. Carter; Rep. James L. Oberstar; Rosa Navejar; and Jonathan Maas.

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Then-APTA Chair M.P. Carter expresses her thanks to her member of Congress, Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN), at the Sept. 22 Telling Our Story event.

Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood offered remarks at the Mineta Transportation Institute's annual Garrett A. Morgan Symposium on Sustainable Transportation for middle school students.

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The Bus Products and Services Showcase offered 134 booths to participants in the APTA Bus & Paratransit Conference in Cleveland.

APTA's online video wall provides a space where people and agencies can share their transit stories.

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Participants attending the APTA Rail Conference in Vancouver, BC, gather on June 7 to hear luncheon speaker Gordon Price, director of the city program at Simon Fraser University.

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist welcomed evacuees from the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti when they arrived in Orlando, as LYNX provided emergency transportation.

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APTA hosted 118 business member companies with 137 booths in the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio for the second annual Annual Meeting Products & Services Showcase.

The free Olympic Streetcar Line, operating through a partnership between the city of Vancouver, BC, and Bombardier Transportation, helped move crowds during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.