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Citizens of Modern transit Awards

CMT Annual Awards

2007

  • Chairman's Award:
    FTA Region VII Administrator Mokhtee Ahmad

2006

  • New Initiatives Awards:
    Washington University/Chancellor Mark Wrighton
  • Chairman's Award:
    Metro CEO Larry Salci

2005

  • New Initiatives Awards:
    Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Children's Hospitals transit benefit programs.
  • President's Award:
    Senators Michael Gibbons and Jon Dolan and Representative Jay Hoffman.

2002

  • New Initiatives Awards:
    Don Breckenridge, Sheraton City Center Hotel & Suites
  • Service Award
    MetroLink Monitors for their service in ensuring MetroLink is clean and maintained

2001

  • New Initiatives Awards:
    Delores Lysakowski, Chair of the St. Clair County Transit District

2000

  • Chairman's Award:
    Robert Archibald, past chair of Citizens for Modern Transit
  • New Initiatives Award:
    Joe Edwards, CMT member and owner of Blueberry Hill and the Pageant

1999

  • President's Award:
    Les Sterman, representing East-West Gateway Coordinating Council Staff

1998

  • New Initiatives Award:
    Cupples Warehouse Redevelopment Project
  • President's Award:
    Delmar MetroLink Station Enhancement Project
    TMA Clean Air Award: State of Missouri Office of Administration

1997

  • President's Award:
    Leonard Griggs, St. Louis Lambert Airport

1996


  • Mayor Ben Uchitelle, City of Clayton
    New Initiatives Award: Debbie Kinsella & Sharon Norvell, Berkeley Airport School

1995

  • President's Award:
    Fred Epstein, CMT Past President
    Service Award:
    Robert Blackburn, CMT Ex Officio Board Member
    Robert Young, CMT Ex Officio Board Member
  • New Initiatives Award:
    John Schmidt, St. Louis County Police
    John Butler, St. Louis City Police
    Claudette Borden, Wayland Security

 

 

1994

  • President's Award:
    John Roach
    Service Award: Bob Bartlett, ATU Local 788
  • New Initiatives Award:
    Thomas Eagleton, U.S. Senate
    John Danforth, U.S. Senate

1993

  • Service Award:
    Janet Sanders
    MetroLink LRV Operators
  • New Initiatives Award:
    Dr. Blanche Touhill, University of Missouri St. Louis

1992

  • President's Award:
    Brice Smith, CEO, Sverdrup
  • Service Award:
    George Leontsinis, Past-president of CMT

1991

  • President's Award:
    Congressman Richard Gephardt, United States House of Representatives
  • Service Award:
    Jill Claybour, CMT Board of Directors
  • New Initiative Award:
    Francis "Bud" Barnes, Missouri State Representative

1990

  • President's Award:
    Andrew D. Young, Transit Historian
    Skip Gaterman, Center for Management, Law & Public Policy

  • Service Award: Donna Laidlaw, Past-president of CMT

  • New Initiatives Award:
    Jim O'Laughlin, St. Charles County Transit Authority
    Conressman Jerry Costello, U.S. House of Representatives

1989

  • President's Award:
    Don Lasater, Former Chairman & CEO, Mercantile Bank
    Larry Troyer, Director, LLoyd's Centre
    Bill Davidson, President, Termial Railroad Assoc.
    Bi-State Development Agency

1988

  • President's Award:
    Thomas W. Purcell, Past-president of CMT
    Ned Taddeucci, President, RCGA

  • Service Award:
    Jim Seamon, CMT Volunteer
  • New Initiatives Award:
    Emily Rauh Pulitzer, Arts-in-Transit

1987

  • President's Award:
    Robert West, Sverdrup
    Duane Christensen, Maritz
    Robert Merenda, Arthur Anderson
    James Brown, James Brown & Associates
    Harold Corbitt, Monsanto
    Larry Bayliss, Boatmen's
    Evelyn Newman, Evelyn Newman Group
    Phoebe Ruess, Design Network
  • New Initiatives Award:
    Les Sterman, East West Gateway
    Max Starkloff, Paraquad

Awards CMT has received

CMT is a leader in grassroots support for light rail expansion. Several St. Louis organizations have recognized CMT for its leadership in being the driving force in bringing MetroLink to St. Louis and in helping clean the air.
  • "Sold On St. Louis Award" from St. Louis Real Estate Board
  • "Silver Anvil Award" from Public Relations Society of America
  • "Lamplighter" from St. Louis PRSA
  • Clean Air Award" from American Lung Association
  • "Way to Go Award" from Environmental Protection Agency
  • "Clean Air Award" from RideFinders, 1997, 1998
  • "Choose Environmental Excellence Award", 2000
  • "Environmental Protection Agency Certificate of Award," 2002, for marketing program surrounding Commuter Choice Program
  • "Commuter Choice Leadership Initiative Award", 2002, from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of Transportation in Washington, D.C.
  • "Pollution Prevention Award", September 2002, from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region VII.
  • Environmental Protection Agency Best Workplaces for Commuters Award 2004
  • Environmental Protection Agency Race to Excellence Gold Medal Award, 2005
  • Environmental Protection Agency Race to Excellence Silver Medal Award, 2006

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