Philip Klinkon
LOS ANGELES, CA—Philip Klinkon, AIA, has joined HNTB Corporation’s West Division as transit studio leader. He will lead the division’s transit architecture team while also coordinating with the transit group in New York.

Klinkon has more than 26 years of experience designing and managing public transit projects including heavy rail, light rail, commuter rail, Bus Rapid Transit, monorail, streetcar, and maglev stations designs, as well as multimodal facilities.

Earlier, Klinkon led IBI Group’s west coast transit architecture practice in Seattle.

Eric Widstrand
LOS ANGELES, CA—Sam Schwartz Engineering, PLLC (SSE), has named Eric Widstrand, P.E., PTOE, as vice president and general manager of its new Los Angeles office.

Widstrand has worked in both the public and private sectors for almost 20 years. He spent the last five years with Seattle DOT.

Paul Casey
SANTA MONICA, CA—The Swedish Institute recently honored Paul Casey, senior service planner for Santa Monica’s Big Blue Bus, with its Swedish-American Bicentennial Fellowship.

The Swedish Institute, a government agency that values culture and education, administers the Swedish-American Exchange Fund for non-academic research and professional enrichment.

Casey joined Big Blue Bus in 1999 and also worked with Los Angeles DOT.

Gary Gonzales, Arthur Lomenick
NEW YORK, NY—Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB) announced the appointments of Gary Gonzales as a senior principal engineer in the Denver office and Arthur Lomenick as sustainable development practice leader in the PlaceMaking group, based in Dallas.

Gonzales has more than 20 years of experience working on projects for Colorado DOT and Denver’s Regional Transportation District (RTD). For the past four years, he served as Colo. DOT’s Program Engineer and liaison to the RTD FasTracks program. He has also served as the traffic and Intelligent Transportation Systems manager for the agency’s multimodal, design-build Transportation Expansion project.

Lomenick is a nationally known expert in the field of urban development with 25 years in the mixed-use development and advisory field. He joins PB from Trammell Crow Company, where he served as a managing director and founder of its subsidiary High Street Residential.

Scott J. Diehl
PHILADELPHIA, PA—Urban Engineers Inc. has promoted Scott J. Diehl, P.E., P.T.O.E., A.I.C.P., to vice president. He joined the firm in 2007.

Diehl has more than 18 years of experience to the position and also will continue as the firm’s chief traffic engineer.