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Carolyn Flowers, former head of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Transit Administration (FTA), has been appointed by infrastructure firm AECOM to lead its transit practice in North America.
New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has announced that Veronique Hakim will serve as the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority interim executive director following the retirement, on January 31, of MTA Chairman and CEO Thomas Prendergast. A seven-person committee is currently conducting a search for a permanent chair and CEO.
The Indiana Department of Transportation has announced that beginning March 1, 2017, Amtrak will start supplying railcars, locomotives and on-board services to the Hoosier State passenger train. Amtrak will also continue to provide train crews and coordinate with private railroads that own the track.
The Association of American Railroads has reported that total U.S. rail traffic for January 2017 was 2,017,641 carloads and intermodal units, up 0.5 percent or 9,788 carloads and intermodal units compared with January 2016.
Kansas City Southern (KCS) subsidiary, The Kansas City Southern Railway Company (KCSR), has appointed Janet Barr vice president human resources, reporting to Lora Cheatum, KCS senior vice president human resources.
Canadian Pacific Railway Limited (CP) has announced that Keith Creel assumed his new role as president and chief executive officer.
The Board of Directors of Sound Transit, the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority, has awarded a $93 million contract to Max J. Kuney Company for the construction of the Bel-Red/130th Station and guideway for the East Link light rail extension.
L.K. Comstock, an electrical contractor, was awarded a $98 million contract by the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to modernize the signal system on the Kings Highway Interlocking in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Owen J. Monaghan has been appointed Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) chief of police, effective January 7. Monaghan succeeds Michael R. Coan, who led the MTA Police Department for eight and a half years. Coan is the longest serving police chief in the department’s history.