Joseph C. Szabo
Federal Railroad Administrator (since April 2009)
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Traveling on trains is set to make quite a comeback with the billions in federal money being channeled into high-speed rails. Both the 2009 stimulus package and 2010 federal budget authorized billions in funds for the expansion of these fast commuter trains in an effort to connect more of the American landscape through railways. Szabo is the person in charge of regulating this growing system.
A former mayor of Riverdale, Ill., Szabo comes from the United Transportation Union (UTU), where he was the union's Illinois director, and is the first railroad labor official to ever lead the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA). He's a fifth-generation railroad worker who has spent time in various positions on the railways prior to his full-time efforts with the union.
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