New City Transit Chief Slated To Start Today
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A former vice president of the city’s bus system is scheduled to become president of New York City Transit today.
Howard Roberts, 67, was appointed yesterday by the CEO of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Elliot Sander, to head the agency that oversees the city’s subways and buses. Mr. Sander worked under Mr. Roberts in the 1980s in the MTA’s bus division.
Transit advocates say they hope that Mr. Roberts’s bus background will make him a proponent of implementing faster bus lanes, known as Bus Rapid Transit, in all five boroughs.
The former president of New York City Transit, Lawrence Reuter, stepped down from the post last month after 11 years in the job.
