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Final ride for Metro CEO Rick Simonetta

December 18, 2009 by Nick Bastian 4 Comments

Metro light rail outgoing CEO Rick Simonetta was honored this past week with a “farewell” ride and reception at the Phoenix Art Museum.  The shindig was made possible by a lot of “transportation geeks” pulling out all the stops to thank Rick for his hard work on our light rail system. Simonetta was honored by […]

Filed Under: Phoenix Light Rail Events Tagged With: Mesa Light Rail, Metro Light Rail, Phoenix Light Rail, Rail Life, Rick Simonetta, Tempe Light Rail

METRO chooses new CEO

December 9, 2009 by Nick Bastian 4 Comments

Today, METRO announced the appointment of  it’s new CEO answering many of the questions surrounding Rick Simonetta’s impending retirement from his position. The new CEO will be Stephen Banta, who currently manages Portland’s TriMet system. Rail Life would like to extend a warm welcome to Mr. Banta. Today’s press release is as follows… METRO Board […]

Filed Under: Phoenix Light Rail Tagged With: Metro Light Rail, Phoenix Light Rail, Rail Life, Rick Simonetta, Stephen Banta

Questions remain for Metro CEO

November 19, 2009 by Nick Bastian 3 Comments

There has been a lot of talk about Metro CEO Rick Simonetta lately, some about his impending “retirement” which apparently means accepting a sweet new transportation gig. Other talk has to do with finding his replacement. Apparently, the two leading candidates to replace Simonetta are transit industry veterans Stephen Banta, the operations chief for Portland’s […]

Filed Under: Phoenix Light Rail Tagged With: Metro Light Rail, Rail Life, Rick Simonetta

Metro CEO Rick Simonetta moving along

April 25, 2009 by Nick Bastian Leave a Comment

Metro light rail CEO Rick Simonetta has a pretty impressive resume. His 35 years in the public transportation industry has come with many rewards and accolades including being voted “one of the 50 most influential people in public transportation of the past century.” It sounds like changes to that resume will be in order in […]

Filed Under: Mesa Light Rail, Phoenix Light Rail, Tempe Light Rail Tagged With: Metro Light Rail, Rail Life, Rick Simonetta

Metro CEO talks light rail

March 31, 2009 by Rail Life Leave a Comment

According to Metro CEO Rick Simonetta, it sounds like they are pleased with the early success of our light rail system. Makes sense for them to be pleased as Rick recently pointed out some interesting details about the still new light rail system. The following video was shot at a recent Mesa City Council meeting […]

Filed Under: Light Rail Videos, Mesa Light Rail Tagged With: Metro Light Rail, Phoenix Light Rail, Rail Life, Rick Simonetta

Valley Metro CEO to speak about light rail…

July 25, 2008 by Rail Life 1 Comment

I hope you can join us for the next Mayor’s "business coffee" to hear Metro’s CEO Rick Simonetta, speak about light rail. I have had several opportunities to hear Rick speak and find him to be friendly, informative and obviously very knowledgeable about the vision of rail in our city. I believe there will be […]

Filed Under: Light Rail, Phoenix Light Rail Tagged With: Metro Light Rail, Phoenix, Rail Life, Rick Simonetta

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