IN BRIEF
Last Words
WTS International
2017 Transportation
Award Winners WTS WOMAN
Opened
March 2014
WTS ROSA PARKS
DIVERSITY
LEADERSHIP AWARD
Catalina Alvarado, Senior
Public Information Offi cer,
MTC
50 | Mass Transit | MassTransitmag.com | JUNE 2017
Ann Arbor Area Transportation Authority (TheRide) Blake Transit Center
National View
Discussion
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro)
TWEET AND RETWEET
Brent Toderian @BrentToderian
Dumb, dangerous, distracting
& traffic-inducing: I wasn’t
very kind to @elonmusk’s car
tunnel digging idea in @CBC.
www.google.ca/amp/www.
cbc.ca/amp/1.4090459
Amtrak @Amtrak
Tired of disappearing leg room?
Ours has been the same since
‘71. #ThrowbackThursday
Vincent Dussault @v_dussault
Interesting view “Parking
requirement is social housing
for car. We need to use land for
people” - @tpap_ #UITP2017
Feyzullah Gündoğdu @feygunf
Patrick Leclerc: we move people
not the bus not tram. #UITP2017
Breakdown
Snapshot
12,019
Square Feet
Certified
LEED Gold
$8.1 Million
Project
Steve Hymon/Metro
MassTransitmag.com/12332078
MassTransitmag.com/12333865
▶ An old P865 vehicle that has been taken out of
commission and is being stripped for parts to be
used to help maintain the rest of the P865 fl eet.
Most of the rail cars used on the Blue Line date
back to when the line opened or the mid 1990s
and have well over one million miles on them.
New rail cars began rolling on the Blue Line
on May 1. The Kinkisharyo P3010 cars have to
date been used on the Gold Line and Expo Line,
where they share track with older rail cars.
fl ickr.com/photos/metrola
OF THE YEAR
U.S. Senator
Susan M. Collins
WTS MEMBER
OF THE YEAR
Fay Simer, Pedestrian
Safety Coordinator,
city of Saint Paul
WTS HONORABLE
RAY LAHOOD AWARD
Philip Schaff ner, Policy
Planning Director, MnDOT
WTS EMPLOYER
OF THE YEAR
Los Angeles World
Airports
WTS INNOVATIVE
TRANSPORTATION
SOLUTIONS AWARD
Baltimore Bike Share