Transportation Awards

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1998 MTC Award Winners

Grand Award

• Strobridge Court, designed by S.F.-based BRIDGE Housing Corp., is an affordable housing complex built at the Castro Valley BART station. Founder Don Terner planned to provide high quality, low-income housing and the project was a success.

Doris W. Kahn Accessibility Award

• Jean Nandi’s greatest time commitment is to her advocacy for transit users with disabilities. She has also contributed and improved access to our public transit network.

Special Transportation Employee Award

• Grover Robinson is one of the most appreciated Freeway Service Patrol drivers. On the freeway he remains sharp and he likes providing service "just to get a smile."

John F. Foran Legislative Award

• North Bay assemblywoman Valerie Brown is being recognized for her efforts on behalf of Assembly Bill 595.

Greta Ericson Distinguished Service Award

• Carney Campion was General Manager for 23 years with the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District. He retired November of 1998.

• After a 48-year career in urban planning and transportation administration, John Hirten has also retired. He recently was the executive director of RIDES for seven years.

• Mehdi Morshed is chief consultant to the state Senate Transportation Committee. He has helped craft most of the major state transportation legislation of the last 21 years.

Merit Awards

• Jesus Losa, who has been driving his jitney bus since 1974, makes the trip between Market Street and the Caltrain station in just a few minutes.

• The San Francisco Municipal Railway Multimedia services Department has designed a CD-ROM for use by transit providers. It provides a training program and is designed to have a positive effect on the lives of the transit drivers.

• Ronna Abramson has covered the challenging transportation beat for three and a half years. Her articles regularly appear in the Oakland Tribune, San Mateo County Times, The Daily Review, and the Fremont Argus.

• WHEELS has provided bus services for thousands of commuters.

• Strobe lights, embedded in the pavement to warn drivers that a pedestrian has entered the sidewalk.