FEBRUARY 2015 | MassTransitmag.com | Mass Transit |
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ODAY A RETIRED LIEU-
tenant colonel from the Air
Force, now-former Lextran
General Manager Rocky
Burke got his start in pub-
lic transportation afer he
got back from active duty
in 1988 as a logistics ofcer. He
applied for a job at Capital Metro
in Austin, Texas, as its director of
maintenance and as he said, "Sur-
prisingly, afer a national search
they hired me … It was a real
stretch of them to hire someone
with no transit experience." He
stated, "When I started my public
transit career, it was a direct result
of experience in the Air Force."
He started as the director of
maintenance and worked his way
up to acting GM of Operations.
In 1994, he went to Sun Tran in
Tucson, Arizona, as director of
maintenance, working for ATE.
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by Leah Harnack
Lextran brought the latest
technology on board to improve service and
is now underway in a project to consolidate its operations,
maintenance and administrative facilities into one LEED-certifed facility.
Lextran
Prepares for Growth
New Technology New Facility:
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