Beverly Scott, after resigning as the embattled chief of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, said she was "on a journey."
That journey is headed to Washington.
President Obama appointed Scott, the former general manager of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, to the National Transportation Safety Board.
Scott, 63, who ran the Greater Boston transit system for three years, resigned last winter amid national glare after a record 109 inches of snow paralyzed parts of the system's subway and commuter rail lines.
Scott's colorful verbiage made headlines. ""I have been through hurricanes, I've been through World Trade Center bombings, tornadoes coming, 30 inches, 36 inches and all that, so this ain't this woman's first rodeo," she told reporters in Boston shortly before resigning. "This is not a spring-chicken system by any stretch of the imagination."
Before overseeing the MBTA, Scott was chief executive of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority. Her resume, which spans 40 years, includes leadership positions at the Sacramento Regional Transit District, the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority and New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
In an interview with The Bond Buyer in May, Scott said infrastructure investment should include "intellectual infrastructure," the people behind transit systems.
"The doing of the deal is different from the other stuff," she said. "There's not a school for that. There's no inoculation for life and you are always in a continuous learning cycle."
