Board Vice President Bill Brady Selected As Successor
The Transportation Management Association of Bucks County announced in September that long-time executive director Bill Rickett will be retiring from his position effective October 31 and the association’s board of directors’ vice president Bill Brady will replace him. Rickett, who has spent 14 2 years with the TMA, has been the first and only executive director of the non-profit organization.
Rickett joined TMA Bucks, then known as the Bucks County Transportation Management Association, in 1999 as the association’s first executive director. Under Rickett’s direction, TMA Bucks has taken the lead for a variety of projects, including developing and implementing job access shuttle services that connect with SEPTA, reinstating commuter rail service to upper Bucks County, the revitalization and redevelopment of Bucks County’s most dangerous highway, Route 13 and launching the Bucks County High School Seatbelt Safety Challenge. TMA Bucks has also taken the lead in Pennsylvania on the development and use of compressed natural gas (CNG) as a cheaper, domestically produced and environmentally clean motor fuel. The first CNG public fueling station in the greater Philadelphia area opened in 2012 in Fairless Hills.
Brady, who has served on the TMA Bucks board of directors since 1999, brings to the association a wide variety of managerial experience in government, for profit, and non-profit organizations. From 1985 through 1994 he served as Chief of Staff to State Senator Hank Salvatore from Northeast Philadelphia. In 1994 he went to work for PECO Energy initially as a lobbyist representing the company’s interest in Harrisburg. In 1998 he was appointed as the County Affairs Manager for PECO in Bucks County with responsibilities involving state, county, and local governments. In 2007 he left PECO Energy and formed Optimum Strategies and Solutions, a communications and governmental strategies firm. From 2008 through 2013 he has served as the Director of Advancement for Archbishop Ryan High School in Northeast Philadelphia. He is married and together with his wife Jeanne they have three daughters.