and after seven years at the helm of New Jersey baguer Mass Transit Agency Kevin Corbett is stepping down the president and CEO of New Jersey Transit says he's resigning effective January 15th to take a job at an unnamed University in New Jersey in a role connected to the transportation sector Corbett's resignation leaves the troubled agency in search of an interim director for the last year of Governor Murphy's Administration in his resignation letter Corbett outlined several of his accomplishments like working to fix an engineer shortage installing and testing positive train control and taking over and improving bus service abandoned by private carriers but his time at the helm also came with controversy trains continuously break down at rates not seen since Governor Christie's term and fairs went up following the worst summer of commuting since 2017 there were also a number of lawsuits lodged against njt for alleged sexual misconduct within the agency for his part the governor today called Corbett's job quote the most difficult in state government aside of course from his own [Music]