Transportation Awards

1980 MTC Award Winners

Grand Award

• Santa Clara County, Commute Alternatives Manufacturing Group

• Charles Van Housen, paratransit services

Special Transportation Employee Award

• Zada Malinak, 34 years with AC Transit

Awards of Merit

• Central Contra Costa County Public Transportation Study Committee

• TRIP, volunteer group in SF Chinatown

• Hewlett Packard Corporation, commute alternatives

• James J. Karabochos, organize "people for Sonoma Transit"

• Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, commute alternatives

• Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, commute alternatives

• Ernest Reilly, organized a group to keep Antioch’s Senior Bus Service in operation

• UCB Ridesharing Program

• University Fellowship Program, encouraged internships with the Santa Clara Transportation Agency

• Wells Fargo Bank, commute alternatives

Certificates of Achievement

• Chris Brecher, KCBS Radio

• Robert L. Copes, outstanding safety record for 30 years as AC Transit driver

• Dolores Costanza, public transportation advocate

• Bill Doyle, volunteer for West Valley Assist paratransit

• Mark E. Gottlieb, commute alternatives

• John B. Grimaldi, safety record as a Santa Clara Transportation Agency bus driver

• Marin County Parks and Recreation, map of bicycle trails

• Peninsula Children’s Center, training disabled youth to use public transportation

• Save Our Ferry Commitee

• Van Am, BART, operation of a shuttle service

• West VAlley Multi-Modal Transportation Task Force, volunteer group advocating the "preservation of right-of-way"

Letters of Recognition

• BART employees, rescue efforts during the Transbay Tube fire

• Oakland & SF Fire Departments, Transbay Tube fire work