Greater Baltimore Committee Hires Top MTA Planner Henry Kay to Head Regional Transportation Advocacy Coalition
04-05-04 - Henry M. Kay, currently the planning director for the Maryland Transit Administration, has been named to direct a new private regional coalition led by the Greater Baltimore Committee to push for the funding and development of the proposed Baltimore Regional Rail System.
"Strengthening the region's mass transit to accommodate the needs of an estimated 230,000 more workers in the next 10 years is a major priority for us," Greater Baltimore Committee President Donald C. Fry said in announcing Kay's hiring.
For more than 10 years, Kay has served in senior transportation planning positions for the State of Maryland. He has been as the MTA's director of planning since September 1998.
At the Greater Baltimore Committee, the region's most prominent organization of business and civic leaders, Kay will direct a broad, new coalition of regional transportation advocates. In addition to the Greater Baltimore Committee, the coalition will include regional business leaders, business organizations such as the Downtown Partnership of Baltimore and the BWI Partnership, and community/civic groups such as the Citizens Planning and Housing Association, the Baltimore Urban League, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, and 1,000 Friends of Maryland.
Kay began work at the Greater Baltimore Committee on April 19.
"Henry Kay has an exceptional depth of expertise and breadth of transportation planning experience. He knows the complexities of mass transit planning and understands, as well as anyone, the needs of the Baltimore region," said Fry. "He will give our coalition high credibility and practical knowledge to successfully plan, advocate, and attain a regional transit system that will greatly enhance workforce mobility."
At the MTA, Kay's duties include managing a staff of 30 professionals responsible for short and long-range transit planning for the Baltimore Metropolitan area, which is the nation's 11th largest public transit provider. He also supervised statewide long-range transit planning, which included current studies on the Red Line and Green Line corridors in Baltimore.
From September to April, 2003, Kay served as the MTA's acting deputy administrator for statewide programs.
Before being named to his position at the Maryland Transit Administration, Kay had been principal planner at the Maryland Department of Transportation from December 1993 to September 1998, where he supervised planners charged with statewide, multi-modal long-range transportation planning. Previously, he served as a planner for the Maryland Department of Planning from 1990 to 1993.
Kay is a 1989 graduate of Cornell University, where he earned a master's degree in regional planning. He earned a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1986.
"Strengthening the region's mass transit to accommodate the needs of an estimated 230,000 more workers in the next 10 years is a major priority for us," Greater Baltimore Committee President Donald C. Fry said in announcing Kay's hiring.
For more than 10 years, Kay has served in senior transportation planning positions for the State of Maryland. He has been as the MTA's director of planning since September 1998.
At the Greater Baltimore Committee, the region's most prominent organization of business and civic leaders, Kay will direct a broad, new coalition of regional transportation advocates. In addition to the Greater Baltimore Committee, the coalition will include regional business leaders, business organizations such as the Downtown Partnership of Baltimore and the BWI Partnership, and community/civic groups such as the Citizens Planning and Housing Association, the Baltimore Urban League, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, and 1,000 Friends of Maryland.
Kay began work at the Greater Baltimore Committee on April 19.
"Henry Kay has an exceptional depth of expertise and breadth of transportation planning experience. He knows the complexities of mass transit planning and understands, as well as anyone, the needs of the Baltimore region," said Fry. "He will give our coalition high credibility and practical knowledge to successfully plan, advocate, and attain a regional transit system that will greatly enhance workforce mobility."
At the MTA, Kay's duties include managing a staff of 30 professionals responsible for short and long-range transit planning for the Baltimore Metropolitan area, which is the nation's 11th largest public transit provider. He also supervised statewide long-range transit planning, which included current studies on the Red Line and Green Line corridors in Baltimore.
From September to April, 2003, Kay served as the MTA's acting deputy administrator for statewide programs.
Before being named to his position at the Maryland Transit Administration, Kay had been principal planner at the Maryland Department of Transportation from December 1993 to September 1998, where he supervised planners charged with statewide, multi-modal long-range transportation planning. Previously, he served as a planner for the Maryland Department of Planning from 1990 to 1993.
Kay is a 1989 graduate of Cornell University, where he earned a master's degree in regional planning. He earned a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1986.
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