SO.CA.TA Meeting w/ Guest Speaker Doran Barnes

by Damien Newton on September 2, 2008

When
September 13, 2008   2:15 pm   
Where
Angelus Plaza, 4th floor, in downtown Los Angeles at 255 S. Hill St.
Doran Barnes, executive director of Foothill Transit, will be the guest speaker at the Saturday September 13 meeting of Southern California Transit Advocates. His presentation begins at 2:15 p.m. at Angelus Plaza, 4th floor, in downtown Los Angeles at 255 S. Hill St. Afterward there will be a question and answer session. The event is free and open to the public.

Mr. Barnes oversees Foothill Transit's 35-route system, manages the private contractors who operate and maintain the agency's 316 buses, and leads the delivery of service to 16 million customers annually. He has been Foothill Transit's executive director since August 2003 and was deputy executive director from 1997 to 2001.

Mr. Barnes also serves as the Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of Access Services, the regional paratransit operator for all of Los Angeles County, and also serves on the Board of Directors of the American Public Transportation Association and the California Transit Association. He serves as chair of the APTA Human Resources Committee and is an active member of the Leadership APTA Committee.

His experience includes two years as CEO and General Manager of Tulsa Transit, as well as a previous term as planning manager at Monterey-Salinas Transit and as a private transportation consultant at Ernst & Young.