Transportation Awards

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1981 MTC Award Winners

Grand Award

• Kitty Cone, Director of Public Affairs, Center for Independent Living, accessibility advocate

• Joint Institutional Transportation Brokers Association, created to propose ridesharing and reduce the impact of vehicles in San Francisco residential neighborhoods

Special Transportation Employee Award

• Robert L. Janack, Muni driver

• Jaunita Magdaleno, project coordinator of the Paratransit call-cab program

Awards of Merit

• Bay Area Transportation Corporation, private, non-profit bus company run by women

• Jody Jones, Antioch Senior Citizens Club volunteer

• "The Phantom Commuter," a column in the San Francisco Examiner

• Wally Skeels, chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee–Transportation for the Handicapped

• Transportation Systems Management Program, UCSF

• United Cerebral Palsy Association of San Francisco, for promoting accessible transportation

• Youth Evolving Solutions, a volunteer group that promotes energy conversation by emphasizing alternatives to the single passenger car

Certificates of Achievement

• Bay Area Council, endorsed a bill for MTC

• Sy Berkowitz, coordinator of Volunteer Wheels

• Mike Bullock, Santa Clara Valley Bicycle Association, bicycle advocacy

• Kaiser Aluminium and Chemical Corporation, "BUS-ter Roberts" bus service to a local park for inner-city children

•Wayne T. Diggs, GGBHTD maintenance supervisor

• Anne Evans, chairwoman of Solano County Paratransit Coordinating Council

• Roberta Gray, commute alternatives project leader for ROLM Corporation

• Gladys J. Harrison, Senior Coordinating Council volunteer

• Richard B. Heath, director of San Francisco International Airport, adpoted a noise reduction plan

• Arthur Hubbard, chairman, Transportation Task Force for the Santa Clara County Manufacturing Group

• Harry Kallshian, V.P. Santa Clara County Manufacturing Group

• KCBS Radio, promotion of public transit

• Napa Valley Dining Club, paratransit services for seniors

• Dana Porterfield, volunteer driver for Tri-City Bus.

• San Francisco Center City Circulation Program, corrdinate multi-modal transit options for downtown SF

• Volunteer Wheels

Letters of Recognition

• Senator Alfred E. Alquist

• John L. McDonnell, CHairmand of American Public Transit Association and Board member, AC Transit