Goodbye, Grand Central. Hello, South Station.
MBTA General Manager Phillip Eng on Thursday announced new top hires from New York to help fix the Boston area’s beleaguered transit system. It was the T leader’s most public shakeup of the agency since he took over in April after a career in New York.
Dennis Varley will be Chief of Stations; Doug Connett will be Chief of Infrastructure; Sam Zhou will be Assistant General Manager for Engineering and Capital; and Rod Brooks will be Senior Advisor for Capital, Operations, and Safety, Eng announced.
The new leaders will be responsible for some of the most troubled areas of the T, including its crumbling stations and tracks.
All four are coming from Eng’s old stomping grounds in New York. Varley previously worked in top roles at Long Island Rail Road, Eng said. Connett comes from the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority in Washington D.C. as vice president and assistant chief safety officer of operations and investigations after spending much of his career in New York, Eng said. Zhou has served in senior leadership positions at New York State Department of Transportation, Eng said. Brooks was Senior Vice President of Operations at Long Island Rail Road, Eng said.
Brooks already started at the T this week, Eng said, and the other new hires will join between August 14 and August 28. Varley will be paid $265,000 per year, Connett $260,000 per year, Zhou $265,000 per year, and Brooks is on a contract through the end of the year with an option to extend for another year for $120 per hour.
Also on Thursday, members of the MBTA’s board of directors unanimously approved a $9.7 billion, five-year investment plan for the agency. The investment plan is larger than the previous five-year plan approved last year for $9.6 billion.
The plan has received pushback from transit and climate advocates for largely maintaining the status quo and failing to advance long-discussed projects past the planning and design phase like electrifying and increasing frequencies of commuter rail lines to 15-20 minutes and connecting the Red Line and Blue Line.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
Taylor Dolven can be reached at taylor.dolven@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @taydolven.
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