Home > About Us Awards In 2007 APTA named SouthWest Transit a finalist for the Gold Award for bus transit systems operating fewer than 1 million passenger trips per year, in recognition of the agency's "outstanding safety program achievements".  In 2007 SouthWest Transit was awarded the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting by the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada for its 2006 comprehensive annual financial report. Awarded American Transportation Associations AdWheel award for SWT's college promotion and 2005 Annual Report. FHWA recognized SouthWest Station exceptional design quality in the Highway Design Awards in 2005 Awarded first place in the Homepage and Annual Report categories of the American Public Transportation Association's AdWheel competition Awarded the Outstanding Public Transportation System of the Year in 2004 by the American Public Transportation Association SouthWest Station was chosen as the recipient of the 2004 Minnesota Shopping Center Association 'STARR' Award for design and aesthetics In October 2004, our Executive Director, Len Simich, received the Minnesota Public Transportation Association's Outstanding Transit Professional of the Year Award 2000 Management Innovation Award - Minnesota Public Transportation Association 1999 Environmental Quality Award - Eden Prairie Chamber of Commerce and Environment and Waste Management Commission 1999 Minnesota Transit Advocate Award - Minnesota Transportation Alliance 1999 Transit System of the Year - Minnesota Public Transportation Association