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May 22, 2021
Maryland Transit Administrator Kevin Quinn said he fell in love with Vancouver a couple years ago when he attended a conference there.
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In July, he will take the reins of the sprawling TransLink system in the Canadian province. I was at a conference there a few years ago and I fell in love with the transit system and the city, he said in an interview on Friday. TransLink itself is very well-respected throughout the industry and known for having a good system and a great team.
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Quinn was appointed to the top post at MTA four years ago. During his tenure, he oversaw the deployment of MTA s first mobile payment app, CharmPass, and the creation of a next-bus/next-train notification technology.
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Less than two weeks after a woman was struck and killed by a car on Georgia Avenue in Silver Spring, Maryland, just a few blocks from where her husband was also hit and killed a few years ago, a member of the Montgomery County Council is seeking action.
Calling the tragic coincidence “particularly distressing,” Council Member Nancy Navarro wrote to Maryland Transportation Secretary Greg Slater to ask that the State Highway Administration “take immediate action” to make that stretch of Georgia Avenue safer for pedestrians.
Claire E. Weissmeyer Grossmann, of the Aspen Hill neighborhood of Silver Spring, was killed crossing Georgia Avenue near Rippling Brook Drive on April 28. She was 63. Her husband, Robert Grossman, 64, was crossing Georgia Avenue when he was hit and killed by a car near Regina Drive, about 1,000 feet away from Rippling Brook Drive, in October 2016, a neighbor said last month.
The Maryland Transit Administration launched a vaccine clinic Friday for its employees, and the state plans to set aside 500 vaccines per week for MTA employees.