The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) Board of Directors in Oakland, CA, has named Sherwood Wakeman as interim general manager, effective April 23. He succeeds Dorothy Dugger.

Wakeman started with the agency as an attorney in 1973, shortly after train service began. In May of 1987, he became the agency’s general counsel, a position he held until his retirement in 2007. Wakeman served as interim general manager on two other occasions during his tenure with BART.

Also, the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority in Tampa, FL, named Philip Hale, chief of maintenance and facilities, as its interim chief executive officer, succeeding David Armijo. Hale is a member of the APTA Bus Operations Committee and Bus Technical Maintenance Committee.