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Jim Pierson |
Jim Pierson is the Transportation and Operations Director in charge of the newly created Transportation and Operations Department. Jim oversees the Transportation Engineering, Environmental Services, and Maintenance Services divisions, as well as the City's largest public works project: the Washington Boulevard/Paseo Padre Parkway Grade Separation.
Jim comes to Fremont with over 27 years of transportation and public works project and program management experience. He began working for the City of Fremont in 2003 as the Assistant City Engineer and managed a variety of transportation and public facilities projects. Before joining the City of Fremont, Jim was the Director of Planning and Development for the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) where he led the planning, design, and construction of some of VTA's largest transit projects including light rail extensions and the early planning of the BART extension to Silicon Valley. |
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Prior to that, Jim was the Deputy Director for Project Management with the Santa Clara County Traffic Authority, the first transportation sales tax authority in the state. There, Jim managed the $1.1 billion highway improvement program responsible for building State Route 85, widening US 101, and widening State Route 237 and converting it to a freeway.
Jim earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Davis.
The Transportation and Operations Department consists of 3 divisions:
- The Maintenance Services Division is responsible for maintaining city streets, sidewalks, medians, trees, public buildings, and vehicles.
- The Environmental Services Division is responsible for managing environmentally sound and cost effective solid waste disposal programs for the City. The division also oversees urban runoff programs which address the quality of storm water flowing into streams and the Bay.
- The Transportation Engineering Division coordinates regional transportation projects that affect Fremont; plans and designs bicycle, pedestrian and street improvement projects; operates and maintains the City's traffic signal system, and analyzes the transportation impacts of new development.
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