Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 19, 2008
METRO TRANSIT HONORS TOP DRIVERS
FOR SAFETY, SERVICE
MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL – (March 19) – Metro Transit presented 64 awards honoring the best Twin Cities bus and train operators at a ceremony this morning in Minneapolis.
Awards were presented to 19 bus operators for 25 years of safe driving. Two were named Elite Operators for 20 years of top-notch customer service, attendance and safe driving, and five were named Superior Master Operators for meeting award standards for 15 years. Prestige Master Operator status was given to 16 operators for 10 years, and 22 were presented the Master Operator designation for five years of achieving award criteria.
Awards were presented by Metro Transit General Manager Brian Lamb and Mary Hill Smith, chair of the Metropolitan Council's transportation committee.
“To most transit customers, their bus or train operator is Metro Transit,” Lamb said. “The ability of each of our nearly 1,400 operators to provide on-time, safe and friendly service is the single most important measure of our reputation in the Twin Cities.”
Metro Transit is an operating agency of the Metropolitan Council. Customers boarded its buses and trains 77 million times last year, the highest annual ridership in 25 years.
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(Editors: For information call Bob Gibbons, director of customer services, 612-349-7509 or via e-mail at robert.gibbons@metc.state.mn.us)
