FTA Region 2 Regional Administrator 

Michael Culotta is the Regional Administrator for the Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA) Region 2 Office in New York, New York. In this role, he provides executive direction over a $52 billion portfolio of federal investments that support public transportation in communities throughout New York and New Jersey. He leads and manages FTA’s largest region, which supports nearly half of the daily transit service in the United States and includes several multi-billion dollar, nationally significant infrastructure projects.

As the Regional Administrator, Mr. Culotta also supports and oversees the development and delivery of capital projects along the Northeast Corridor, including key infrastructure projects within the Gateway Program. He co-chairs the U.S. Department of Transportation’s task force that streamlines and harmonizes cross-cutting federal requirements that apply to major infrastructure projects jointly funded by FTA and the Federal Railroad Administration.

Prior to this role, starting in 2019, Mr. Culotta served as the FTA Region 2 Deputy Regional Administrator, managing the day-to-day operations of the region, including FTA’s $10 billion Hurricane Sandy Recovery Office and FTA’s $4.5 billion September 11 Recovery Office. Before that he was FTA Region 2’s Regional Counsel from 2011 to 2019, providing legal advice on all aspects of the federal transit program.

Mr. Culotta began his tenure with FTA in 2006 in Washington, DC, where he served as a law clerk, and later as a staff attorney in the Office of Chief Counsel.  He also served as a special counsel to FTA’s Office of Transit Safety and Oversight, where he helped lead efforts to develop a new industry-wide regulatory framework for public transportation safety, including the promulgation of the Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan Rule—keeping transit among the nation’s safest modes of travel.

Mr. Culotta holds a Juris Doctor degree from the American University Washington College of Law and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Urban Studies from Canisius University.  He is a member of the New York, District of Columbia, and U.S. Supreme Court bars.