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LWV League of Women Voters of California Education Fund
Alameda, Contra Costa County, CA November 2, 2004 Election
 Smart Voter Roy Nakadegawa

Candidate for
Director; San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District; District 3

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Biographical Highlights
  • Occupation: Incumbent, Professional Transportation Engineer
  • Registered Engineer, CE #11,630; 1958
  • Former elected Director of AC Transit for 20 years
  • Former Member of State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers
  • Former National President of Institute for Transportation of Amer. Public Works Assoc.
  • Awarded Life Membership to Amer. Public Works Assoc. and Institute of Transportation Engineers
  • Recieved a Commendation from MTC for work on Senior and Disabled Paratransit Service
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Top Priorities if Elected
  • Provide a cost-effective, socially equitable, safe, clean, accessible, reliable, and customer friendly system.
  • Promote environmentally sound transit orientated developments that are readily accessible and non polluting that will add to the quality of life
  • Improve BART using developed technologies, assess its use using quantifiable performance measures to determine its effectiveness
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Key Endorsements
  • Sierra Club
  • Professor Marty Wachs, Director of UC Berkeley Transportation and Land Use
  • Senator Don Perata, Senate President Pro Tem
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Position Papers
Provide a cost-effective, socially equitable, safe, clean, accessible, reliable, and customer friendly system.
BART has rebuilt its worn aging system resulting in an award of "Best Transit System in America". To attain a reliable, and customer friendly system BART also needs to rebuild for earthquake resistance that shows dire result if we do not. BART should integrate Land Use to development that increases non-polluting access and improve our environment and livability.
Promote readily accessible, environmentally orientated developments, which will add to the quality of life and economic prosperity
Many claim BART reduces congestion and improves our environment but is this true? Do we consider social equity, its cost to build and operate, and quality of life created by BART extensions? Based on my extensive reviews of BART's Environment Impact Reports I made, well received by public interest groups, I submitted them to BART Board and Staff that they did not acknowledge.
Improve BART using developed technologies, assess its use using performance measures while increasing ridership in an efficient and cost effectiveness
BART has improved systemwide with less breakdowns and more reliability because we incorporated many parts with developed technology that I am familiar with. BART can make further improvements for efficiency, reliability and reduce operational costs 40-50%, as well as increase capacity and provide seamless transfers between transit systems using developed technology, which I am also familiar with.
 
Campaign Contact Information
E-mail: rnakadegawa@juno.com


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