Transportation Advisory Group Selects New Officers

22 June 1998

    OAKLAND, 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.