MetrSORTA Chairman Elected to National Transit Board

CINCINNATI – Lamont Taylor, chairman of the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority board of trustees, has been elected as the Region 4 representative for the American Public Transportation Association’s Transit Board Members Committee.

In this capacity, Taylor will represent transit systems in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin for the next two years. Taylor, 34, is one of the youngest transit board chairpersons in the country.

Taylor joined the SORTA board in 2003. In his professional career, Taylor serves as the employee relations representative for Frisch’s Inc./Golden Corral Franchise. His other honors include the Cincinnati Business Courier’s 40 Under Forty class of 2004 and Hamilton County Community Action Agency's 2004 Bridge Builder Award.

SORTA employs approximately 900 people and operates 390 Metro fixed-route buses and 53 Access paratransit buses, providing approximately 22 million rides per year to passengers in the Cincinnati area.