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The outgoing APTA chair, Flora Castillo, and the incoming chair, Peter Varga, recognize the changing of the guard at the Opening General Session

Kim Lear, Bridgeworks LLC, lit up the APTA/WTS Breakfast with a presentation titled "Rocking the Workplace: Managing and Leading Four Generations."

All recipients of this year's APTA awards gather on the stage at the conclusion of the awards ceremony.

APTA Chair Peter Varga announces his theme for the coming year: "America's Future Is Riding on Public Transportation."

Conference participants crowd the Products & Services Showcase for the Welcome to Chicago Reception that kicked off the meeting.

All Annual Meeting photos by Paul Beaty unless otherwise noted. 

Speakers at the APTA-Conference of Minority Transportation Officials Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Assembly on transit board members' roles are, from left, APTA President & CEO Michael Melaniphy; moderator Mary Ann Collier, Swayzer Engineering; Jeff Arndt, VIA Metropolitan Transit; Lou Miller, VIA Board of Trustees; Angie Rivera-Malpiede, Regional Transportation District (RTD) Board of Directors; RTD General Manager Phillip Washington; Craig Stewart, MTA New York City Transit; and Michael Garner, New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority. (Photo by Susan Berlin.)

Getting into the Texas spirit to promote the 2014 APTA Annual Meeting and EXPO, Oct. 12-15 in Houston, are, from left, Jeffrey Wharton, chair, EXPO Advisory Committee; Angela Iannuzziello, an APTA Executive Committee at-large member who also serves on the Annual Meeting Planning Subcommittee; and APTA President & CEO Michael Melaniphy.

Speakers at the Sept. 30 session on "Congress and the Federal Public Transportation Agenda," from left: moderator Jeffrey A. Nelson, chair, APTA Legislative Committee and general manager, Rock Island County Metropolitan Mass Transit District; Homer Carlisle, majority professional staff member, and Rachel Johnson, minority professional staff member, Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; and Andrew Brady, majority professional staff, House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Highways and Transit. (Photo by Susan Berlin.)

At the Closing General Session, performers from Second City Communications presented some of the humorous aspects of public transportation--here, the rude commuter who won't share the support pole with anyone else on board.

Recipients of the first-place AdWheel Awards in the business member category gather on stage before the announcement of the Grand Award winners.

The Annual Meeting program included numerous educational and networking opportunities for Leadership APTA members and alumni, culminating in graduation ceremonies for the Class of 2013 and and a formal welcome to the Class of 2014.

American Public Transportation Foundation Chair Bonnie D. Shepherd, far left, and APTA President & CEO Michael Melaniphy, far right, recognize this year's APTF scholarship recipients and their sponsors during the Opening General Session.