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Brittney
M. Farr
Director of
Government
Relations
Denton County
Transportation
Authority (DCTA)
After nearly nine years with Dallas
Area Rapid Transit (DART), Brittney M. Farr
joined DCTA as its new director of government
relations in September 2021. Farr is
responsible for DCTA's local, state and federal
legislative strategy and engagements, and
maintaining relationships with stakeholders.
Farr also represents the agency within
local communities, at regional meetings and
industry-wide events to meet agency interests,
needs and objectives by identifying and
establishing strategic partnerships.
Farr joined DART in 2013 where she demonstrated
a tireless commitment to the agency
and its mission of improving mobility and
economic opportunity for all residents of
its 13-city service area, while pushing the
agency to act intentionally to connect transit
to solving the region's challenges of human
trafficking, food insecurity, workforce access
and homelessness. Her efforts helped DART
achieve notable results in these areas and
supported its goal to educate the transit
industry about the role of transit agencies in
creating solutions to these vexing problems.
In 2018, because of work with local community
and political leaders, DART began
creating a transportation management association
(TMA) to connect workers with a rapidly
growing job creation center, the Inland
Having trusting, genuine
relationships with your colleagues,
stakeholders and customers
allows you to be proactive
and address issues before
they become problems. "
Port. Farr applied her transportation training,
as well as her training as an attorney and her
work developing community connections,
to organize the effort, secure grant funding,
create the new, non-profit entity, secure the
needed legal approvals to operate and identify
additional funding opportunities to establish
the TMA. Farr's efforts proved valuable
when DART took over a separate TMA in a
different part of the agency's service area.
Farr was a member of APTA's Emerging Leader
Program and is the current president of the
Greater Dallas/Fort Worth Chapter of the
Women's Transportation Seminar. She also
participates in organizations in her community.
Fast Fact: Farr's work at DART to address
food insecurity gave residents in some of the
most seriously affected parts of the DART service
area access to fresh, healthy food.
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Austin
Gibble
Administrator
of Long-Range
Transportation
Planning - City of
Indianapolis
Department of
Metropolitan
Development
Austin Gibble is described as having a
true passion for his profession. As the LongRange
Transportation Planning Administrator
for the City of Indianapolis Department of
Metropolitan Development, Gibble has been
able to rise quickly in his career. He serves as
a thought-leader for transportation plans and
policies within Indianapolis and Marion County.
Gibble is the primary coordinator between
all transportation involved agencies within
Indianapolis who partner to make Indianapolis
a more livable city.
Prior to working at the city, Gibble served as
a project development planner for IndyGo,
the main transit provider in Indianapolis. He
assisted in the high-profile rollout of the Red
Line Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project and he
was the lead for the Purple Line BRT project's
Environmental Management, working on key
project redesigns for better drainage and
archaeological work with the Indiana State
Historic Preservation Office and Federal Transit
Administration. His work uncovered remnants
of an old train station along the Purple Line
corridor and he presented the findings with
the Indiana Historical Society. He also managed
complex intersection redesigns and the
Super Stops Project, which is now under construction,
bringing dedicated bus lanes and
enhanced passenger amenities to speed up
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It is important for planners,
designers and engineers to
avoid reactionary responses to
criticism and instead approach
valid concerns with meaningful
and thoughtful responses. "
local bus service in downtown Indianapolis.
Gibble has volunteered his own time to
serve many causes to benefit transit. He
is a founding and active board member
for Young Professionals in Transportation
Indianapolis and serves on the board for
the Congress of New Urbanism Midwest as
the Events Co-chair. In partnership with the
Project for Public Spaces, Gibble helped to
plan the 2020 and 2021 Walk, Bike, Places
conferences where he led various panel
discussions and mobile workshops.
One of Gibble's most notable attributes is his
keen ability to distill complex topics related
to urban planning and transportation and
break them down into digestible bites that
make sense for the public to understand.
Fast Fact: Gibble grew up in rural Indiana
and was an active member in FFA and 4-H.
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