News: Construction Design & Engineering
Posted: September 18, 2015
Wensley named senior planner for WSP|Parsons Brinckerhoff Boston
Boston, MA James Wensley has been named a senior planner in the Boston office of WSP|Parsons Brinckerhoff. He will manage transportation and urban planning projects in the Boston area, throughout the northeast, and nationally. Wensley will focus his efforts in the area of transit operations and bus rapid transit.
Wensley holds a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from the Mass. Institute of Technology.
Formerly Wensley was a senior transportation planner and transit planning team leader in the Boston office of a national engineering firm, responsible for managing a range of transit service planning and evaluation projects for departments of transportation and other transportation agencies in Connecticut, New Jersey, Virginia, Michigan, Tennessee, Florida and Arkansas.
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