Metro CEO Art Leahy announced today that Martha Welborne has been hired as the new chief planning officer for Metro. Welborne is an architect who has been working with the Zimmer Gunsul Frasca firm in Los Angeles (here’s the firm’s bio of her) and also has been serving as the [continue reading]
Here’s a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the library’s blog. Don’t forget you can also follow the Metro Library on Facebook and Twitter. Baldwin Park considers moratorium on drive-thru businesses (San Gabriel Valley Tribune) In [continue reading]
Another week comes to a close which means another weekend is just beginning – and there’s some great stuff to do this weekend. The Dodgers are facing the Detroit Tigers, so make sure to hop on the Dodger Stadium Express to save yourself the hassle of driving and parking. Saturday [continue reading]
[polldaddy poll=3187424] Not to be a nag but…I’d still like to see more responses to the fare structure poll that we recently posted. Why? Although there’s no proposals on changing the fare structure currently on the table, it couldn’t hurt for agency staffers to have this kind of information in [continue reading]
Metro CEO Art Leahy announced today that Lonnie Mitchell has been hired as Metro’s chief operating officer. Mitchell has been serving in that role since December. “Lonnie performed exceptionally well during that time period,” Leahy wrote in a memo to Metro staff. “I look forward to him working quickly to [continue reading]
[vimeo width=”600″ height=”400″]http://vimeo.com/11624777[/vimeo] I stumbled upon this video thanks to a tweet from the Urban Land Institute – Los Angeles. Created for the Southern California Association of Governments, “Choices and Transformations: Managing Growth in California” takes a look at the history, present and future of urban development and redevelopment in [continue reading]
We’re working on coming up with a list of essential “bikes-as-transportation” blogs to celebrate Bike Week and to round off our collection of essential blogs lists. In the past we’ve made lists for essential Los Angeles transportation blogs, essential transportation blogs that aren’t specific to L.A. and essential transit agency [continue reading]
Here’s a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the library’s blog. Don’t forget you can also follow the Metro Library on Facebook and Twitter. A guide to subway safety (Gawker) For all the controversy about the [continue reading]
In Wednesday’s transpo headlines, we had an item about a speech that Federal Transit Administration chief Peter Rogoff gave at a transit conference this week. Rogoff made some pointed remarks, challenging transit officials to think about whether it was best to improve maintenance of their systems before expanding them. He [continue reading]
Curbed LA and LAist are reporting that the new Trader Joe’s at Hollywood & Vine is set to open on Friday, May 21st. A major retail component of the recently completed Hollywood & Vine Transit Oriented Development, Trader Joe’s is located on the ground floor of the the 1600 Vine [continue reading]
