Transportation Awards

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1991 MTC Award Winners

Grand Award

• AC Transit Employees, for implementing the Comprehensive Service Plan (a grid system service)

Doris W. Kahn Accessible Transportation Award

• Marilyn Golden, staff analyst with the Disability Rights, Education and Defense Fund

John F. Foran Legislative Award

• State Assemblyman Tom Hannigan

Special Transportation Employee Award

• Award presented posthumously to Joseph McElvane, a paratransit van driver for Vantastic of Berkeley who was found murdered in his home

Awards of Merit

• Santa Clara County Traffic Authority, school outreach program

• CalTrain Citizens Advisory Committee (public transit advocacy)

• Bay Area Economic Forum, for reports on "Market Based Solutions to the Transportation Crisis"

• California State Coastal Conservancy, guidebook for persons with disabilities "A Wheelchair Rider’s Guide: San Francisco Bay and Nearby Shorelines"

• Transportation planners of the BART Plus ticket, from AC Transit, BART, Central Contra Costa Transit Authority, Muni, SamTrans, Union City Transit and Western Contra Costa County Transit

Certificates of Achievement

• Alex Zuckerman, bicycle transportation advocate

• Project 2472, steam locomotive restoration

• Eunice Valentine, former executive director of RIDES for Bay Area Commuters

• Santa Clara County Transit Authority, Guadalupe Corridor light rail project

• Captain Hugo Knef and Deckhand Daron Oates of the Alameda-Oakland Ferry (operated by Blue and Gold Fleet)

– the two men rescued a man who jumped in the water

Letters of Recognition

• Doug McMillan, reporter, Peninsula Times-Tribune

• New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc., employee transportation programs and promotions

• JoAnn Johnson and her 1990-91 third grade class, study of transportation and land-use issues

• City of Oakland’s Audio Pedestrian Signals Program

• Santa Clara County Transit Authority, for the Class Pass