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January/February 2005

In the News

Former Executive Director Lawrence D. Dahms Honored

Former MTC Executive Director Lawrence D. Dahms has been named the 2005 recipient of the Frank Turner Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Transportation. Presented at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) 84th Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., the award is jointly sponsored by more than a dozen national transportation organizations.

TRB called Dahms “a gifted transportation manager who elevated the role and influence of the metropolitan planning organization (MPO).”

“Throughout his California-based career in transportation, Dahms maintained an outlook that was national and multimodal, and colleagues from many disciplines and transport modes sought him out to play key roles in professional organizations and initiatives. A frequent participant in national policy debates, he left his imprint on the series of reauthorizations of federal surface transportation programs in the 1980s and 1990s, perhaps most notably in the expanded role given to MPOs in the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991,” TRB noted in its press release.

The Frank Turner Medal recognizes lifetime achievement in transportation, as demonstrated by a distinguished career in the field, professional prominence, and a distinctive, widely recognized contribution to transportation policy, administration or research.

Active in TRB for more than 30 years, Dahms retired from MTC in 2000 after 23 years as executive director.
— Brenda Kahn

Contents

• State of the System
  • Bay Area Freeways Record Third Straight Year of Reduced Congestion
  • Facts and Figures – Daily Freeway Delay by Bay Area County, 1999–2003
  • Facts and Figures – Top 10 Bay Area Congestion Hot Spots
• Update – Traveler Info Service Logs 5 Millionth Call
• In the News – Former Executive Director Lawrence D. Dahms Honored
• In Memoriam – William R. "Bill" Lucius, Original MTC Commissioner
• Commission Actions