Photo: Metro.net It’s been nine months since Metro’s last online chat as Antonio Villaraigosa was less likely to expose himself to online critics than his predecessor, Santa Monica’s Pam O’Connor.  However, Metro is bringing back the online chat, although instead of Villaraigosa or O’Connor, Metro Chief Operating Officer Carolyn Flowers will host the next live […]

Metro’s online chats return today at noon, with "Living with the I-405 Sepulveda Pass Widening Project" featuring project director Michael Barbour.  The stated purpose of the chat is to help residents deal and navigate familiar streets with unfamiliar traffic patterns caused by the mammoth widening project; but if this chat follows course with many of […]

Today, Metro hosted it’s third "online chat" with Metro Board Chair Pam O’Connor. Today’s topic was HOT Lanes and the regional transportation funding crisis. For the full chat, click here. The highlights of the chat were mostly congestion-pricing related. Metro has taken a beating for examining road pricing as a way to reduce congestion, and […]

(ed note: I think the entire chat can be viewed here. Longtime readers will remember I had trouble figuring out Metro’s website during the first one of these…The Update Is at the Bottom)Today’s chat with Metro Board Chairwoman Pam O’Connor stayed in reasonably safe ground avoiding topics such as the end of reciprocity between Metro […]

Pam, we hardly knew ya. Unless I’m reading my Metro Board Rules and Procedures incorrectly it appears that Metro Board watchers will be experiencing a little back to the future next week, because on Tuesday, July 1 current Metro Vice Chair and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will succeed Pam O’Connor as Chair of the […]