Sanchez on scope of new bus plan positions
Sanchez asks about the scope of 70 new positions. Beaton explains the funding includes planners, engineers, concrete workers, signal timing specialists, and outreach staff across the entire program.
What is the scope of the new positions and is DOT hiring for these new positions now?
Well, it's FY27 funding.
So as soon as we get the money, we're going to move quickly to staff up as quickly as we can.
Tell all your friends.
We're going to need a lot of good people.
I have some folks in the audience here who are willing to apply for work.
Not kidding.
So we're definitely going to spread the word.
Thank you.
What is the scope for these new positions?
Yeah, so one of the things that we really did very thoughtfully and the mayor funded is that this isn't just more planners, you know, more people to think about where we should do bus lanes.
It includes the engineers who design them and it includes work throughout our operations, includes people for new concrete elements and new people for signal timing changes and just all the things that go into making a bus lane successful.
So we were very pleased.
is that it's not just sort of starter money, it's really the money to plan and deliver the entire program.