Oswaldo Meneses, AICP
Senior Manager of Public Affairs
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“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
~Thomas A. Edison
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Prior to joining Southwest Strategies, Oswaldo supported Kimley-Horn’s Bay Area strategic planning and outreach efforts including efforts for VTA’s BART Silicon Valley Phase II Extension Project, implementing environmental requirements, developing implementation requirements, programming, technical support, and multilingual outreach and coordination with engineers, elected officials, project staff, community organizations, and the community.
Prior to joining Kimley-Horn, Oswaldo spent eight years as a transit operations specialist and transportation planner with San Diego MTS. In this capacity, he was responsible for overseeing multimodal transportation projects that included community outreach and engagement from planning through design, construction, and service operations, including improvements for transit, pedestrian, and bicycle modes.
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