Dorval Carter

Dorval Carter
Carter at the Damen (Green Line) station (2024)
President of the Chicago Transit Authority
In office
May 13, 2015 – January 31, 2025
Preceded byForrest Claypool
Succeeded byNora Leerhsen (acting)[1][2]
Personal details
BornDorval Ronald Carter, Jr.
EducationCarroll University (BS)
Howard University (JD)

Dorval Ronald Carter Jr. is an American businessman and executive who served as the President of the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) from 2015 until resigning in January 2025; he also served as acting president of the CTA from January to April 2009.[3][4][5] He has previously worked in transportation-related organizations including the Federal Transit Administration and the United States Department of Transportation.[6]

Education and career

Carter received a B.S. in Business Administration and Economics from Carroll University in 1979,[7] and his J.D. from Howard University School of Law.[8] After his education, he began working in local and Federal levels.[9]

Carter became the President of the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) in May 2015. He was appointed by the Mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel and succeeds Forrest Claypool.[6] The board members consequently elected him as Head of the Board.[10] While serving as the president, he was also in charge of the Red and Purple Modernization Phase One Project (RPM),[11][12] and the Red Line Extension Project (RLE).[13]

Carter announced his retirement from the CTA on January 13, 2025,[14] shortly after finalizing a Full Funding Grant Agreement[15] for the RLE with the Department of Transportation.

Criticism

A nationwide decline in public transportation during the COVID-19 pandemic also afflicted the CTA and severely reduced revenues, ridership, and transit frequencies.[16][17] Though other transportation systems across the US have seen recoveries to pre-pandemic service levels,[18][19] Carter has faced criticism over a slow recovery for the CTA.[20] Dorval has faced calls for his resignation from Chicago Aldermen and activists as far back as November 2022;[21] however, after a article was released about the death of Antia Lyons,[22] a CTA bus operator who experienced a heart attack while in her bus and was unconscious for an hour before an employee called 911, and the subsequent failure of the CTA to report her death to the IL Occupational Safety and Health Administration, there have been calls for a change in leadership from a greater number of elected officials including IL Governor J.B. Pritzker.[23]

References

  1. ^ Harrington, Adam; Johnson, Darius (January 16, 2025). "Longtime CTA chief of staff Nora Leerhsen to take over as acting president when Dorval Carter Jr. retires". CBS Chicago. Retrieved February 1, 2025.
  2. ^ Struett, David (January 15, 2025). "CTA chief of staff named acting president as Dorval Carter prepares to leave office". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved February 1, 2025.
  3. ^ Tye, Chris; Kaufman, Elyssa (January 13, 2025). "CTA President Dorval Carter Jr. retiring at end of January". CBS Chicago. Retrieved February 2, 2025.
  4. ^ Greenfield, John (May 6, 2015). "Welcome Back Carter: New Transit Chief Has CTA, USDOT Experience". Streetsblog Chicago. Retrieved February 2, 2025.
  5. ^ Ramos, Mack Liederman, Manny (January 13, 2025). "CTA Boss Dorval Carter Retires After Years Of Mounting Pressure Over Struggling Transit Service". Block Club Chicago. Retrieved January 13, 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ a b "Mayor Emanuel Names Seasoned Public Transit Veteran New CTA President". www.chicago.gov. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  7. ^ "Carroll vice chair interviewed by Chicago Tribune about college choice". Carroll University. May 2, 2019. Retrieved April 20, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  8. ^ Rodgers, Sophie; Wu, Natalie; Urban, Elizabeth (January 23, 2023). "Who's Who in Chicago Business 2023". Crain's Chicago Business. Retrieved April 20, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  9. ^ "Dorval Carter". cwea.illinois.gov. Illinois Workforce Equity & Access Commission. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  10. ^ "Chicago Transit Board Names Dorval R. Carter, Jr. as New CTA President". Chicago Transit Authority. May 13, 2015. Retrieved April 20, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  11. ^ "The CTA is getting ready for RPM, the mother of all Chicago transit projects — Streetsblog Chicago". chi.streetsblog.org. September 10, 2019. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  12. ^ "Mayor Lightfoot, CTA, City and Federal Leaders Commemorate Completion of New Red-Purple Bypass, Announce Upcoming Historic Work in Red & Purple Modernization (RPM) Phase One Project". www.chicago.gov. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  13. ^ "CTA's $3.6 Billion Red Line Extension Project Included in Biden-Harris Administration Recommendation to Congress for Federal Funding Support in 2025 Budget Request". CTA. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  14. ^ "CTA President Dorval R. Carter, Jr. Announces Retirement". CTA. Retrieved January 13, 2025.
  15. ^ "Mayor Brandon Johnson, Federal Transit Administration and the Chicago Transit Authority Announce Finalization of the $1.9 Billion Funding for Transformational Red Line Extension Project". www.chicago.gov. Retrieved January 13, 2025.
  16. ^ "Anatomy of an 'American Transit Disaster'". Bloomberg.com. April 27, 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  17. ^ "Chicago traffic, CTA patterns dramatically affected by COVID pandemic; construction unchanged". ABC7 Chicago. March 26, 2021. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  18. ^ Fayyad, Abdallah (April 10, 2024). "How one city pulled public transit from the brink — and what the rest of the country can learn from it". Vox. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  19. ^ Fitzpatrick, Alex; Beheraj, Kavya (December 14, 2024). "Where public transit is recovering — and where it's not". Axios. Retrieved April 20, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  20. ^ Liederman, Mack (February 28, 2024). "As CTA Struggles, Transit Boss Hopes For System To Rival London, Paris". Block Club Chicago. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  21. ^ Laurence, Justin (November 10, 2022). "CTA president finally faces City Council questioning at committee hearing". Crain's Chicago Business. Retrieved April 20, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  22. ^ Ramos, Manny (April 17, 2024). "Death Behind The Wheel: How The CTA Failed A Driver In Crisis". Block Club Chicago. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  23. ^ "Pressure is mounting to replace embattled CTA President Dorval Carter — Streetsblog Chicago". chi.streetsblog.org. April 19, 2024. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
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