News and Updates

Center Deputy Director Delivers NTI Session on Frontline Workforce Development

Posted January 2020

On December 13, 2019, Center Deputy Director Xinge Wang led a class of 24 senior-level public transit maintenance leaders through an interactive presentation and dis cussion on the topic -  Maintaining the Human Infrastructure: Workforce Development on Transit’s Front Line.

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Center Welcomes New Board Member

Posted January 2020

The Center is pleased to announce the addition of Jerry Boles to the Board of Directors. Jerry Boles is the President of the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen.

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Metro Transit Graduates its First Class of Coach Operator Apprentices

Posted December 2019

On Thursday, December 12, the Center’s Jack Clark and Kenyon Corbett traveled to Minneapolis to attend the graduation ceremony for Metro Transit’s first class of Bus Operator apprentices. The Center worked with labor and management at Metro Transit to help get design, register, and implement the apprenticeship.

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ATU International President, John Costa, Elected Chair of the Center’s Board

Posted December 2019

The Center is excited to announce Amalgamated Transit Union International President, John Costa, has been elected to Chair its board of directors. Costa was elected International President of the Amalgamated Transit Union, September 26, 2019, at ATU’s 59th International Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Center Delivers Train-the-Trainer Course at SacRT in Sacramento

Posted December 2019

November 18-22 was a busy week for eight SacRT employees from signals, wayside, bus maintenance, and light rail maintenance when they attended the Center’s Train-the-Trainer (TtT) course at their bus maintenance training center.

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