Stephen G. Bland (c.1962) is the chief executive officer of WeGo Public Transit and the Regional Transportation Authority in Nashville, Tennessee.
Previously, he was the Director/CEO of the Port Authority of Allegheny County serving metropolitan Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
[2] He was chief executive from June 12, 2006[3] until his employment was terminated without cause by a 5 to 3 vote of the Port Authority Board on February 1, 2013.
[6] In the summer of 2012 Bland was considered among the top 2 candidates for the CEO position of both MARTA[7] and the Jacksonville Transportation Authority[8] as well as a featured speaker at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College.
Bland was also widely credited by the business community and other public leadership with spearheading significant improvements in the Port Authority's efficiency, leading a complete redesign of transit services resulting in greatly improved service efficiencies and negotiating two consecutive concessionary collective bargaining agreements with its employee unions.