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Photo by Todd Parola
Public transportation industry leaders met with White House officials March 13. They discussed authorization, ridership growth, and how public transportation helps people deal with the high cost of gas.
Clockwise from left: APTA President & CEO Michael Melaniphy; APTA Chair Gary C. Thomas; APTA Vice Chair Flora Castillo; APTA Chief Counsel and Vice President-Corporate Affairs James LaRusch; APTA Secretary-Treasurer Nathaniel P. Ford Sr.; Tom Nolan, San Francisco Muni; Beth Osborne, DOT assistant secretary for transportation policy; Dana Hyde, associate director, White House Office of Management and Budget; Kyle Lehrman, White House Office of Public Engagement; Jon Carson, deputy assistant to the president and director of public engagement; Carlos Monje Jr., senior policy advisor for the Domestic Policy Council; FTA Deputy Administrator Therese McMillan; FTA Administrator Peter M. Rogoff; APTA Executive Committee member Sharon McBride, Greater Peoria Mass Transit District Board of Trustees; and Mike Schneider, InfraConsult.
Others at the meeting but not shown were APTA Immediate Past Chair Michael J. Scanlon, San Mateo County Transit District; Joseph J. Giulietti, South Florida Regional Transportation Authority; Greg Evans, Lane Transit District Board of Directors; Jeff Nelson, Rock Island County Metropolitan Mass Transit District; Crystal Lyons, Corpus Christi Regional Transportation Authority Board of Directors; Charles R. Wochele, ALSTOM Transportation; Sharon Greene, Sharon Greene & Associates; Ronald L. Epstein, New York State DOT; Alan C. Wulkan, InfraConsult; and David Garten, New York MTA.
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