In the wake of the October 17, 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, Caltrans commissioned an oral history project to document the personal and professional experiences of Caltrans employees who worked to restore the State's damaged transportation system. At the time of the Loma Prieta earthquake, Gray was the Deputy District Director of Planning and Public Transportation for Caltrans at the District 4 office at the Oak Street location. In this recording Gray talks about his personal earthquake experience and then goes into the challenges of working with Southern Pacific, BART, Ferry Service, AC Transit, and Golden Gate Transit in the days after the earthquake. He did much of the planning and coordination for the extra transit service after the Loma Prieta earthquake because it would take a month to repair the damaged San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge. His efforts helped transport people around the Bay Area after the disaster.
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