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In Memoriam: Public Transportation Looks Back
The public transportation community said goodbye during the past year to public transit professionals, including two former APTA chairs, the architect of ISTEA, an author of SAFETEA-LU, the executive director of the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials (COMTO), and a former commissioner of New Jersey DOT. Here is how they were remembered in the pages of Passenger Transport, in chronological order of their deaths.
Cory Ponder, 35, assistant transportation director for Cleveland Area Rapid Transit at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, died Nov. 26, 2013.
Jack McCroskey, a longtime transportation advocate in Denver and past chairman of the Regional Transportation District Board of Directors, died Jan. 8.
Howard C. Breen, 83, APTA chair in 1997-98 and a 35-year member of the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority Board of Commissioners, died March 11.
Former Rep. James Oberstar, (D-MN), 79, a former chairman and ranking member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, died May 3. He served in the House from 1975-2011, was an author of SAFETEA-LU, and received the 2000 APTA National Distinguished Service Award.
Maya Angelou, 86, author, civil rights activist, and cultural icon—who, at age 16, was hired by the Market Street Railway Company as San Francisco’s first African-American woman streetcar conductor—died May 28.
James Gallagher, 83, who served as assistant general manager of the San Mateo County Transit District (SamTrans), San Carlos, CA, as the culmination of a 28-year career with the agency, died May 29.
Julie Cunningham, COMTO president and chief executive officer since 2001, died June 24.
Ed Bobit, 86, founder and chairman of Bobit Business Media, publisher of METRO Magazine and other trade publications, died June 29.
Edson L. Tennyson, 92, a longtime rail advocate who served as PennDOT deputy secretary from 1972-79, died July 14.
Rep. Robert Roe, (D-NJ), 90, chairman of the then-House Public Works and Transportation Committee from 1991-93 and a driving force behind ISTEA, died July 15. Roe received the APTA National Distinguished Service Award in 1991.
John P. Sheridan Jr., 72, New Jersey transportation commissioner and chair of the New Jersey Transit Corporation Board of Directors from 1982-85, died Sept. 28.
William J. Ronan, 101, the first chair of APTA in 1974-76 and the first chairman of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, died Oct. 15. He was named to the APTA Hall of Fame in 1985.
William (Will) P. Sears, 48, former FTA chief counsel and founder of the transportation consulting company, the Peterson Group, died Nov. 28.
Hugh D. MacGillivray, senior associate with Hatch Mott MacDonald in Pleasanton, CA, died Dec. 3.
Louis L. “Larry” Heil, 80, retired chief executive officer of McDonald Transit Associates, Ft. Worth, TX, and 2006 inductee in the APTA Hall of Fame, died Dec. 5.
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