Transportation Awards

1989 MTC Award Winners

Grand Award

• Bay Area voters, for their approved Regional Measure 1; accepted by state Sen. Bill Lockyer and Jim Bourgart

John F. Foran Legislative Award

• State Senator Quentin L. Kopp

Special Transportation Employee Award

• Chris Duarte, retired Sonoma County Transit bus driver

Awards of Merit

• Contra Costa Transportation Authority, for the passage of Measure C

• KPIX-TV & KCBS Radio, month-long transportation awareness campaign as part of "Beat the Back-Up" Campaign

• San Francisco Muni, "Tours of Discovery" booklet & marketing programs

• San Jose Trolley Corporation, restoration of 3 vintage cars

• Santa Clara County Transportation Agency, unique efforts to market light rail line

Certificates of Achievement

• Transportation 2000 plan, Santa Clara County

• Joy Doyle, Caltrans railroad consultant

• Vallejo Transit BARTLink, service across the Carquinez Bridge

• San Francisco Bay Trail Plan & all those involved

• Jean Nandi, former chair of the Alameda County Paratransit Coordinating Council for outstanding volunteer leadership

• Greenbelt Alliance, "Future of the Metropolis" program

Letters of Recognition

• Keith Bernard, decade of leadership as BART general manager

• Paratransit Insurance Corporation, created a self-funded insurance pool

• Lu Hurley, posthumous to veteran KGO-radio traffic reporter

• Junior Center of Art and Science, "Oakland Explorers Kids’ Guide"