RNL announced the addition of Phil Klinkon, AIA, as senior associate and Pacific region transit director.
“We are pleased that Phil has joined the RNL transportation team as our Pacific region director. He brings an extremely deep and impressive portfolio of planned, designed and completed transit facilities, including transit centers, stations, and bus rapid transit. The people side of transit is strategic to RNL’s continued growth as one of the leading national architecture and urban design firms focused on the planning and design of transit facilities.” Patrick M. McKelvey, AIA, senior principal of RNL, said.
Klinkon, AIA, has more than 30 years of experience designing and managing complex transit, urban public, and private sector projects. His work includes numerous heavy rail, light rail, commuter rail, bus rapid transit, monorail, streetcar, and maglev station designs. He also has led the design of multi‐modal facilities, ferry terminals, airport terminals, highway projects, toll and border crossing facilities, and traffic management centers.
Prior to joining RNL, Klinkon was transit studio leader at HNTB’s west division and he led IBI Group’s west coast transit architecture practice in Seattle. While in Seattle, he served as the lead architect for preliminary engineering of Sound Transit’s EastLink Light Rail System. He also managed the design of numerous bus rapid transit projects including Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority’s Rapid Transit, Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA)’s Bravo and Community Transit’s Swift Bus in Seattle.
Klinkon is a member of the American Institute of Architects, American Public Transportation Association (APTA), and California Transit Association (CTA) In addition to his professional memberships, he has lectured about transit architecture and technology, and has taught undergraduate and graduate level transit design studios.
