Jose Macasocol, a transit operator for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, receives the David Tannehill Special Employee Award for practicing safety and courtesy every day on the job as a bus driver.
Solano Mobility, winner of a MTC Award of Merit, is a Solano Transportation Authority program that identifies and addresses the needs of seniors, disabled and low-income residents.
One of this year's Award of Merit winners is the West B Street Undercrossing in the city of Dixon, which created a safe route under railroad tracks for students, disabled persons and other residents, and encourages walking and biking.
The Free South San Francisco Community shuttle, operated by the city of South San Francisco, provides transportation services to students, as well as to low-income and disabled residents, after a major bus route was eliminated.
The Bay Area’s own Assembly Speaker pro Tempore, Kevin Mullin, is the recipient of the 2016 John F. Foran Legislative Award for authoring Assembly Bill 516 and carrying it across the finish line to be signed into law in July 2016 by Governor Brown.
The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of Transportation YOU encourages girls to become interested in the field of transportation and to take math and science courses to fulfill that goal.
Meet the 15 people, projects and organizations that were honored for exceptional contributions to Bay Area transportation at this year's MTC Transportation Awards.
Billy Bradford acknowledges that acquiring old bikes, repairing them in his garage and then giving them away for free is a “bad business model,” but it’s what he loves doing. “I can’t fix all the problems (of the world), but I can fix bikes,” he said.
Brian Maroney, who serves as Caltrans’ chief bridge engineer, has been a leader in the area of bridge seismic safety for 32 years and has worked on most of the bridges and transportation structures in the Bay Area.
The Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District was given a MTC Award of Merit for successfully installing the Moveable Median Barrier and making related traffic control improvements.
The Bay Bridge East Span bicycle and pedestrian path opened all the way from Oakland to its Yerba Buena Island landing for the first time on Sunday, October 23, 2016.
At a press conference on October 3, 2016, in San Jose, MTC unveiled its annual ranking of the Bay Area’s most congested freeway segments. Four MTC commissioners were on hand to deliver the news.
New updates to MTC's Vital Signs performance monitoring initiative for five indicators related to the Bay Area's land & people and air quality have been released. Learn more at vitalsigns.mtc.ca.gov.
MTC’s Vital Signs performance monitoring initiative just released updated data for three indicators related to transportation: time spent in congestion, miles traveled in congestion, and travel time reliability. To learn more, go to vitalsigns.mtc.ca.gov.
