Photo by Steve Barrett

Members of the APTA Executive Committee and senior staff met March 12 with White House officials to discuss public transportation’s impact on economic development, health care, energy efficiency, and clean technology, among other issues. In attendance were, from left: front row, FTA Administrator Peter M. Rogoff, FTA Deputy Administrator Therese McMillan, APTA President & CEO Michael Melaniphy, APTA Chair Flora Castillo, and APTA Vice Chair Peter Varga; center row, Executive Committee members Phillip Washington, Rosa Navejar, Joseph Giulietti, Crystal Lyons, and Angela Iannuzziello, and Bryna Helfer, DOT director of public engagement; back row, Petra Mollet, APTA chief of staff; Executive Committee member Chuck Wochele; Hector Lopez, MTA Long Island Rail Road; Doran Barnes, APTA secretary-treasurer; committee member Alan Wulkan; James LaRusch, APTA chief counsel and vice president-corporate affairs; committee member Ron Epstein; committee member Reginald Mason; Art Guzzetti, APTA vice president-policy; and Brian Tynan, APTA director, government affairs.