He is very familiar with federal grant and funding programs for transit agencies like UTA, having signed off on some 200 grant agreements annually totaling $1 billion in FTA’s Region 3. He has observed and worked with transit agencies all across the country. He also spent more than 8 years with the Federal Aviation Administration. He also was involved with SEPTA Board preparation, transit-oriented development, ethics compliance, agency-wide policy development, and he oversaw some capital projects.įox also brings many years of regional and national transit experience, working for Amtrak and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) in a variety of roles. It logs nearly 1.5 trillion passenger miles each year across all modes.Īt SEPTA, Fox was responsible for corporate legal matters, including planning, operations, procurement, funding, legislative affairs, real estate, railroad relationships, and regulatory compliance. With 9,500 employees, the agency is much larger than UTA (although not in geography). SEPTA serves the Philadelphia metropolitan area, operating bus, rapid transit, commuter rail, light rail, and electric trolleybus service.

But he couldn’t be more excited about his new job and the opportunity to live in Utah and help take public transit to a new and exciting level in the Beehive State.įox, an attorney with a law degree from Rutgers University, leaves his position as deputy general counsel for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) to take the job in Utah. It will be a big change for the east coast transportation professional who has never lived in the west. Jay Fox then began his new job as Utah Transit Authority executive director on Jan. They drove 2,200 miles across the country, arriving at their new home in Bountiful, Utah, on the afternoon of Jan.

3, Jay Fox and his family climbed into their Subaru and departed their home in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

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