Outgoing Alameda County Supervisor Scott Haggerty has received the California Transit Association's 2020 Distinguished Service Award, which recognizes "an individual who has had a long and distinguished career and has made outstanding contributions to public transit."
Haggerty, who currently chairs the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and was one of the founding policy makers on the San Joaquin Regional Rail Commission, has also served on the Livermore Amador Valley Transit Authority (LAVTA) Board of Directors for the past 24 years.
Presented during a virtual ceremony at the CTA's Fall Conference on Nov. 19, Haggerty said, “As elected officials, we don’t do this work for awards. But when you are acknowledged by such an esteemed body as the California Transit Association, it really solidifies that maybe the work you are doing does matter.”
LAVTA officials praised Haggerty for "his relentless advocacy for transportation matters" in a statement, and pointed to his career achievements such as spurring forward legislation that brought about the founding of the Tri-Valley/San Joaquin Valley Regional Rail Authority of which he has been board chair since 2018, and in turn advancing the Valley Link rail project.
Haggerty has also chaired the Alameda County Transportation Commission (ACTC), LAVTA, the Tri-Valley Transportation Council and the San Joaquin Joint Powers Authority. He also led efforts to bring approximately $2 billion of transportation improvements for roads, highways and public transit in Alameda County's District 1, which includes Dublin and Livermore.
A vocal advocate of Rapid bus service since its inception in 2011, Haggerty also brought $1 million for LAVTA to be one of the country's first transit agencies to test autonomous vehicles on public streets.
Haggerty will retire at the end of this year but LAVTA said "the transportation infrastructure and transit service that he helped put in place during his quarter-century of service will remain far into the future."
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Registered user
another community
on Dec 4, 2020 at 12:42 pm
Registered user
on Dec 4, 2020 at 12:42 pm
UGH! Unsure what CTA knows or had in mind when it authorized such. He helped push for MTC to fund a pilot project for TNC to provide "last-mile" service between transit nodes and home/ work destinations, even though TNC are NOT accessible, despite A.D.A. requirements that
a "public accommodation" must be accessible. Questions arise what CTA had in mind, for a pol. retiring from office.
Registered user
Livermore
on Dec 6, 2020 at 6:59 pm
Registered user
on Dec 6, 2020 at 6:59 pm
Alameda County 410-Acre Colossal Mistake.
Web Link
Question: What is less environmentally disruptive?
(A) 410 Acre Solar Farm - Phase One - scalable with more land.
(B) Thorium U-233 Molten Salt SMR producing 10 x Power Level of (A) and scaleable to 100 x Power Level of (A) with no increase in land use required?
10 acres is all that’s needed to scale up to a 5-Gigawatt (5-GW) walkaway safe Thorium plant. The linked video TED Talk explains.
This group of posts is intended to eventually sort through all types of power production, consider environmental impacts, consider the implications that drive countries to war, and look at alternatives.
Wind and solar power combined with battery power is not dependable and leads to power shortages that lead to inevitably to boarder conflicts and war. Our prime land is consumed needlessly catering to “solar panel and battery power people + wind farmers, (spab’s),” that our politicians can not say no to. 410-acres in north Livermore is only the beginning for the spab’s. They are making their play for the entire North Livermore Valley, and starting with just 410 acres. The power demand is so great, the spab’s know they can fill the entire North Livermore Valley. Who’s going to tell them no?
Alternatively we can scale up and generate 1000 x the power generated in the 410 acres using 10 acres with walkaway passive safety using Thorium.
This could all be safely transferred into the old Westinghouse facility on Highway 84 and provide uninterrupted supply of electricity to the entire SF Bay Area.
We are just now waking up to realize there are safe, reliable, alternatives. Let the solar panels stay on rooftops, parking lots and back yards.