Muriel Bowser, Thomas J. Bulger
WASHINGTON, DC—Muriel Bowser has joined the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Board of Directors as a principal director and Thomas J. Bulger is a new alternate director on the board. Both represent the District of Columbia.

Bowser, a District of Columbia Councilmember representing Ward 4, succeeds Tommy Wells as a principal director. Prior to her election to the council in 2007, she oversaw a downtown transportation management district where she was responsible for ensuring transportation options for residents, workers, and visitors.

Bulger, president of Government Relations Inc. succeeds Michael Brown. He has been a federal advocate and policy consultant representing private and public clients before Congress and the administration. Bulger also served as policy advisor to the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission.

Dr. James H. Parker, Lynton Erskine
MARKHAM, ON—Delcan Corporation has named Dr. James H. Parker and Lynton Erskine as the first members of the Delcan Emeritus Program. The purpose of the program is to retain some of the firm’s most experienced and knowledgeable professionals for the benefit of its clients.

Parker has 40 years of experience in the rail transit industry, specializing in electrical systems, propulsion systems, magnetic levitation, and high-speed rail technologies. He founded J.H. Parker & Associates Inc. (PAI) in 1986 and served as its president until he retired in 2010. Delcan acquired PAI in 2007 and converted it to Delcan Rail and Transit Group earlier this year.

Erskine began his career with Delcan in Africa, rejoining the company in Canada in 1978 and retiring this year as manager of public transportation services. He has more than 40 years of experience in international transportation consulting and construction.

Albert Leydecker, Mitchel Simpler, Joseph R. Amato, Linda Shumaker, Thomas J. Cascino, Raymond Daddazio, Nicholas Pinto
ALBANY, NY—The American Council of Engineering Companies of New York elected Michael Leydecker, P.E., an associate principal and surface transportation group manager at Wendel Duchscherer Architects & Engineers, P.C., Buffalo, as its chairman. He has served in the civil engineering and transportation field for more than 30 years.

Also elected were Mitchel Simpler, P.E., Jaros, Baum & Bolles, chairman-elect; Joseph R. Amato, P.E., Cameron Engineering & Associates, LLP, treasurer; Linda Shumaker, P.E., Shumaker Consulting Engineering & Land Surveying, P.C., secretary; and Thomas J. Cascino, P.E., AECOM; Raymond Daddazio, P.E., Weidlinger Associates Inc.; and Nicholas Pinto, P.E., Barton & Loguidice, P.C., vice chairmen.

Gareth Lifton
DENVER, CO—CH2M HILL announced the appointment of Gareth Lifton, P.Eng., as its global leader for asset management. He is based in the firm’s Calgary, AB, office.

Lifton has more than 20 years of experience in all aspects of utility management, including the development and implementation of utility policies, strategies and business plans, long-term capital programs, and asset management/risk management methodologies, tools, and techniques.

As a CH2M HILL senior principal management consultant within the Utility Management Solutions practice, he has directed asset management assignments across North America and Europe.

John Welsh
RENO, NV—John Welsh, a managing principal of Stantec in Reno, was recently named Civil Engineer of the Year by the American Society of Civil Engineers, Truckee Meadows Branch.

Welsh has worked in the region for the past 36 years, with projects including heavy rail, roadways, airports and aviation improvements, parks, maintenance facilities, water resources, and residential subdivisions.

Anne O’Neil
DENVER, CO—Anne O’Neil, P.E., CSEP, chief systems engineer, capital program management, for MTA New York City Transit, received the Founders Award from the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) for her contributions to the organization’s representation of transportation systems engineers.

INCOSE recognized O’Neil for attracting transportation systems engineers to the organizations and establishing a forum for them. This is the first time the group has honored a transportation systems engineer.

Dr. Dennis Christiansen, Keith Parker
WASHINGTON, DC—The Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America) announced that Dr. Dennis Christiansen and Keith Parker have joined its board of directors.

Christiansen is director of the Texas Transportation Institute and an international expert in high-occupancy vehicle lanes. He is the senior editor of two books and the author of numerous reports and publications about various facets of transportation and traffic engineering.

Parker has served since 2009 as president and chief executive officer of VIA Metropolitan Transit in San Antonio, TX. He previously was chief executive officer and director of public transit for the Charlotte Area Transit System in Charlotte, NC.

Yakov Strizhevsky
NEW YORK, NY—Yakov Strizhevsky, P.E., has joined SYSTRA’s Electrical Engineering and Power Group as senior catenary engineer.

He has more than 25 years of experience in heavy rail transit, commuter rail transit, and railroad electrification.