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Spring 2010

Nominations Open for 2010 Excellence in Motion Transportation Awards


Gallery of past winners (left to right from top): Fannie Mae Barnes, San Francisco Muni’s first female cable car grip (2008 winner); Gillian Gillett, who formed a
coalition to calm streets in her S.F. neighborhood (2006); AC Transit bus operators who donated over 100 holiday presents to kids at a homeless shelter (2008); Gunn High School’s GO-FAST Program to reduce student driving (2006).

Consider nominating:

  • Innovative activities that promote more efficient use of the transportation network.
  • An exceptionally friendly and helpful bus driver or other transportation professional or community leader who has made a significant contribution to Bay Area transportation.
  • Significant improvements to transportation services for the elderly or persons with disabilities.
  • Successful efforts to improve public transit service and encourage the use of alternatives to driving alone.
  • Efforts to boost smart growth, reduce harmful carbon emissions or encourage climate-friendly behaviors.
  • Accomplishments in the fields of volunteerism, community activism, advocacy, leadership and minority affairs.

Few people who have met her can forget the strong, firm handshake of Fannie Mae Barnes, who broke through long-entrenched gender barriers to become the first, and to date the only, female cable car grip for San Francisco Muni. Her bravery, determination and pioneering spirit are typical of the honorees in MTC’s biennial Excellence in Motion Transportation Awards Program, which is now soliciting nominations.

Barnes was one of a dozen or so people, programs and organizations honored in the 2008 Awards Program. Other winners from that round include the team behind the MacArthur Maze “miracle,” in which the key interchange was rebuilt in just 26 days following the catastrophic explosion of a gasoline tanker truck, and a group of compassionate bus drivers who donated over 100 Christmas presents to children at a homeless shelter.

Award winners in 2006 included a grassroots movement to tame San Francisco traffic and reclaim city streets for pedestrians, and Palo Alto’s Gunn High School, recognized for its GO-FAST Program that took on teen car culture and created incentives for students to walk, bike, carpool or use public transit.

Eligible nominees must have been active or under way during the two-year timeframe from June 2008 to April 2010, and may be honored under certain award categories as determined by a panel of jurors. Winners will be announced in October 2010.
— Georgia Lambert

Submit nominations online at <mtc.ca.gov/about_mtc/awards> or call 510.817.5757 or e-mail <info@mtc.ca.gov> to request a nomination form. Nominations must be received by May 14, 2010.

 

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