Transportation Advisory Group Selects New Officers
22 June 1998
Transportation Advisory Group Selects New OfficersOAKLAND, Calif., June 19 -- Dr. Roop Jindal, a resident of Hayward, has been selected to chair the Metropolitan Transportation Commission's (MTC) Minority Citizens Advisory Committee. Mr. Luis Arteaga, a resident of San Francisco, will serve as the committee's vice-chair. Each will serve a two-year term. MTC is the regional transportation planning and financing agency in the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area. The purpose of the Minority Citizens Advisory Committee is to involve minority communities in the transportation planning process for the Bay Area, and to ensure that the views and needs of minority communities are adequately reflected in MTC policies. The committee includes representatives from the region's African-American, Asian, Latino and Native American communities. Dr. Jindal has been a member of the committee since 1989. He was born in India and obtained M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois and Punjab University, respectively. Before immigrating to the United States in 1981, he taught graduate and undergraduate engineering courses at Punjab Engineering College in Chandigarh, India, from 1959 to 1981. Since 1986, Dr. Jindal has worked for the city and county of San Francisco where he is a traffic engineer with the Department of Parking and Traffic. Mr. Luis Arteaga, a senior policy analyst with the Latino Issues Forum Public Policy Institute in San Francisco, has been a member of the committee since 1996. At Latino Issues Forum, he is responsible for directing work in sustainable development which includes analyzing transportation, water and land use issues affecting Latinos throughout California. He holds a Master in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and an A.B. in Politics from Princeton University.