Grace Crunican

Grace Crunican
Crunican circa 2015
General Manager of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system
In office
August 31, 2011 – July 6, 2019
Preceded byDorothy Dugger (2007 – 2011)
Succeeded byRobert "Bob" Powers (2019 – present)
Director, Oregon Department of Transportation
In office
May 1996 – February 2001
Deputy Administrator of the Federal Transit Administration
In office
1993–1996
PresidentBill Clinton
Personal details
Born1955 (age 68–69)
Beaverton, Oregon, U.S.
Alma mater

Grace Crunican (born 1955) is a mass transportation specialist who most recently served as general manager of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) District.[1][2][3][4][5] She had previously worked for the Oregon Department of Transportation, the Federal Transit Administration (under the Clinton administration), and the Seattle Department of Transportation, and also at the mass transit lobbying organization called the Surface Transportation Policy Project.[1][3]

  1. ^ a b "General Manager". Bay Area Rapid Transit. Retrieved July 22, 2017.
  2. ^ "Grace Crunican is selected as BART's new General Manager". Bay Area Rapid Transit. August 31, 2011. Retrieved July 22, 2017.
  3. ^ a b Matier & Ross (August 3, 2011). "Grace Crunican in line for post of BART manager". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved July 22, 2017.
  4. ^ Burnson, Robert (October 2, 2014). "BART's No-Nonsense GM Grace Crunican. She handles strikes, deaths on the tracks, and nine bosses to run the aging train system as best she can. Has BART entered a new era?". Alameda Magazine. Retrieved July 22, 2017.
  5. ^ "Grace Crunican officially named new BART general manager". San Francisco Examiner. August 31, 2011. Retrieved July 22, 2017.