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Stand Up 4 Transportation Press Conference
Ed Resikin, director of transportation for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency speaks at the event.
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San Mateo County Transportation Authority Executive Director Jim Hartnett addresses the needs of both SamTrans and Caltrain.
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Transit staff and supporters emerge from a Valley Transportation Authority bus wrapped in the campaign’s signature branding.
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MTC Chair Dave Cortese shows his solidarity with the campaign by signing the wrapped VTA bus.
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Speakers and supporters gather for a group photo at the end of the event.
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The wrapped VTA bus as viewed through the window of one of the other buses that also converged on the Temporary Transbay Terminal.
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Scott Wiener, a San Francisco supervisor as well as MTC commissioner, highlights San Francisco’s needs.
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Satnam Gil, recording and financial secretary for Amalgamated Transit Union Local 265, was among the supporters at the event.
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Top staff and board members from 14 local and state agencies spoke at the event, with MTC Chair Dave Cortese (at the podium) serving as the MC.
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MTC Chair Dave Cortese engaged the crowd in a series of calls and responses.
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Speakers included (L-R): Randell Iwasaki; Jeff Morales; Bijan Sartipi; Nick Josefowitz; Arthur L. Dao; H.E. Christian Peeples; MTC Chair Dave Cortese.
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Contra Costa Transportation Authority Executive Director Randell Iwasaki adds his signature to the side of the wrapped bus.
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Nuria Fernandez, general manager, Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
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Tilly Chang, executive director, San Francisco County Transportation Authority
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Arthur Dao, executive Director, Alameda County Transportation Commission
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H.E. Christian Peeples, president, AC Transit Board of directors
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Maria Ayerdi-Kaplan, executive director, Transbay Joint Power Authority
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Ed Resikin, director of transportation for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (which oversees Muni), pointed out that some of the city’s infrastructure is more than 100 years old.
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Denis Mulligan, general manager and chief executive officer, Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District
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Nick Josefowitz, San Francisco representative on the BART Board of Directors (left), and San Francisco Supervisor and MTC Commssioner Scott Wiener give a thumbs up to the campaign.
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Top officials from more than a dozen local and state transportation agencies gathered at San Francisco’s Temporary Transbay Terminal yesterday to show solidarity with the national Stand Up for Transportation campaign.