Nuria Fernandez Joining USDOT Written by Marybeth Luczak, Executive Editor
Nuria Fernandez stepped down as Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority’s (VTA) General Manager/CEO on Jan. 19.
Nuria Fernandez is moving on from her position as Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority’s (VTA) General Manager/CEO to join the Biden-Harris Administration at the U.S. Department of Transportation, VTA reported Jan. 19. Evelynn Tran is now interim General Manager/CEO.
VTA did not specify Fernandez’s new position, but said that her federal appointment would be announced “in the coming days.”
Politico has reported that she will be named Deputy Administrator of the Federal Transit Administration. Transportation reporter Tanya Snyder wrote on Twitter: “The plan, sources say, is to eventually nominate her to administrator, but that requires Senate confirmation, and as deputy she can start right away.”
KCS Targets Greenhouse Gas Emissions Written by Marybeth Luczak, Executive Editor
Kansas City Southern has pledged to set a science-based greenhouse gas emissions reduction target that it said “will align with what climate scientists say is needed to meet the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels.”
Kansas City Southern has submitted a letter to the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) committing to setting a greenhouse gas emissions reduction target.
The target “will align with what climate scientists say is needed to meet the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels,” KCS said. The commitment letter to SBTi a partnership of CDP, the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), World Resources Institute (WRI), and World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) builds off steps the Class I railroad has already taken to lower emiss
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People News: MARTA Deputy Ops GM; San Diego MTS Security, Safety Director Written by Marybeth Luczak, Executive Editor
Collie Greenwood, Deputy General Manager, Operations, Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (left); Al Stiehler, Director of Transit Security and Passenger Safety, San Diego Metropolitan Transit System
The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) promoted Collie Greenwood to Deputy General Manager, Operations. In addition, California’s San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) named Al Stiehler Director of Transit Security and Passenger Safety, succeeding Manny Guaderrama, who retired in August 2020.
Greenwood, who joined MARTA in July 2019, served previously as Chief of Bus Operations. He now oversees all bus and rail operations, and will work on major capital projects, including overseeing the design and delivery of 254 new railcars under a $646 million agreement with Stadler Rail and t
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