SBF Executive Editor Thomas McMahon shares shots of some NAPT and NASDPTS conference highlights — as well as interesting sights from around the host city.
Postcards From Cincinnati
Thomas Built Buses sponsored a dinner event on this riverboat, which cruised up and down the mighty Ohio.
Deborah Hersman, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, speaks to National Association for Pupil Transportation (NAPT) conference attendees about her agency’s crash investigations and recommendations, as well as the school bus industry’s “unequalled” safety record.
Cincinnati City Hall (right) is just one of the many spectacular historic buildings around town.
To kick off the National Association of State Directors of Pupil Transportation Services (NASDPTS) conference, Ohio state director Pete Japikse discusses changes in school transportation and the need to come up with new solutions to old problems.
Kim Koenigs, executive director of the Worth County (Iowa) Development Authority, details her campaign to pass Kadyn’s Law, named after a local girl who was killed in May when a motorist illegally passed her school bus.
Former NBA All-Star Mark Eaton, a keynote speaker at the NASDPTS conference, towers above Illinois state director Cinda Meneghetti and Iowa state director and NASDPTS President-Elect Max Christensen.
Walking near the convention center one afternoon, I noticed this man setting up Altoids tins on the sidewalk. The man, Art Hoffman, said he was breaking some kind of world record by knocking over 151 of the tins with one push. He did it, although I’m not sure why.
One of the Duke Energy Center’s walkways provides a nice overview of the NAPT trade show.
Recalling school transportation's roots in horse-drawn "kid hacks," Cincinnati used much simpler vehicles for waste collection in the early 20th century.
O.K. — I couldn’t resist throwing in a photo of myself with Mark Eaton. At 7’4’’, he’s almost a foot and a half taller than I am.