Industrial Designer To Add Style To New Jersey Transit

New Jersey Transit hired top industrial designer Cesar Vergara to transform locomotives, buses, passenger cars, signs, schedules, and transit villages in an ambitious effort to rival mass transit in Europe.

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January 7, 2002, 7:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

It is an ambitious plan that envisions a rail network to rival those in Europe. By hiring Mr. Vergara, public transport experts say, New Jersey Transit has become the first agency in the country with an in-house chief designer, someone who will oversee every element of a $1 billion system that carries 224 million people a year.

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

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