Phillip Eng | |
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 Eng in 2022 | |
| Born | 1961or1962(age 61–62) |
| Alma mater | Cooper Union (BE) |
| Years active | 1983–present |
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Phillip Eng (born 1961or1962) [1] is an American transit executive currently serving as general manager of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
Eng is the son of Chinese immigrants. He grew up in Williston Park on Long Island, then moved to Mineola. [2] [3]
He earned a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Cooper Union in 1983. [4]
Eng began his career in 1983 as a junior engineer at the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT). He became the department's chief engineer and executive deputy commissioner in 2013. [5] At NYSDOT, he helped execute projects including the construction of the Kosciuszko Bridge and the opening of Rochester station. [4]
In March 2017, Eng was named chief operating officer of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, then became the New York City Transit Authority's interim president for four months beginning that October. [2] [5] In 2018, he became the 40th president of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR). [2] [6] In that role, he enacted the initiative "LIRR Forward" to improve the system's reliability, setting on-time records in 2020 and 2021. [7]
After he retired from the LIRR in 2022, he was hired as executive vice president of the LiRo Group, a construction management firm. [8]
Eng was appointed by Massachusetts governor Maura Healey to head the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) and started as general manager in April 2023. [9] At the time he assumed leadership, the MBTA faced a maintenance backlog worth an estimated $24.5 billion. [10] In his first year, he vowed to clear the slow zones that plagued many of the MBTA's lines and recover ridership lost to remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic. [11]
The MBTA had been widely criticized for mismanagement before Eng's appointment; the executive director of the agency's advisory board told Axios six months into Eng's term in leadership that "with Phil Eng, it's like the adults are finally in charge." [12] He is the first MBTA general manager since 2015 with previous experience leading a transit agency. [1]
Eng is married and has four children. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, near the Lechmere station. [1]
Eng is a beer enthusiast and homebrews his own beer. [13] He is a fan of the New York Mets. [5]
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