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3/24/2020
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) announced yesterday it has appointed Connecticut Department of Transportation Commissioner Joseph Giulietti to serve a two-year term as chair of the organization's Council on Rail.
The rail council addresses policy, regulatory, safety, operations and investment issues that states encounter when developing freight- and passenger-rail systems.
Giulietti was appointed by Gov. Ned Lamont in December 2018 to lead Connecticut's transportation department. Prior to that appointment, Giulietti started his transportation career with MTA Metro-North Railroad in 1983, departing in 1998 to lead Florida's Tri-Rail system. In 2014, Giulietti returned to Metro-North to serve as president not long after a fatal Metro-North train derailment on the Hudson Line near the Spuyten-Duyvil station in the Bronx, New York.
Guilietti is credited with restoring Metro-North's reputation, after federal officials cited the commuter railroad with safety deficiencies, AASHTO officials said.