Gloria Ohland
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Move L.A. Interviews Incoming Metro CEO Phil Washington
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Metro’s new CEO Phil Washington just started work this past Monday May 11. Below is a recent Phil Washington interview conducted by Gloria Ohland, who serves as Policy and Communications Director for Move L.A. At Move L.A.’s 7th Annual Transportation Conversation L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti talked at some length about L.A.’s transformation into an example […]
Guest Editorial: Dreaming Big About Rail Lines, Grand Boulevards, Bus Rapid Transit and Measure R2
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(Move LA’s mission is to build a broad constituency that will advocate for the development of a comprehensive, diverse, robust, clean and financially sound public transportation system for Los Angeles County. Denny Zane is the executive director. Gloria Ohland is the policy and communications director.) More and more people — from elected officials to bike […]
Move L.A.: Why You Should Vote Yes on Measure J For Jobs
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…And what the New York Post and LACBC founder Ron Milam have to say about Los Angeles and public transit Los Angeles County is darn big and densely populated, a complex conglomeration of neighborhoods, multi-centered, and with complicated commute patterns. It’s hard to believe policy and funding still prioritizes cars when it seems so obvious […]
Gloria Ohland: Why Streetsblog Matters
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As we advance further in to June, we also move farther in to our first-ever fundraising driver. Rather than making another appeal myself, I thought I’d ask some of the leaders of our advocacy community to tell you why they support Streetsblog. Our first volunteer is Gloria Ohland, who is now with Move LA and […]
Mobility 21: Small-Ticket Transportation Solutions Get Lost in the Big-Ticket Hubbub
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Big Ticket The annual Mobility 21 conference for the SoCal transportation industry, consultants and agency officials usually comes and goes without much fanfair but this year there was a palpable sense of excitement – and record attendance – at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim. LA County really has a lot going on with Measure R, […]
Three Visionary Real Estate Developers and the Downtown LA Streetcar
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The demand for federal transit funding is so great in the U.S. that getting a project through the funding queue is a decades-long process. To give you an idea: 37 states have proposed 400 projects worth $250 billion, according to a recent report by the national nonprofit Reconnecting America, and at the current rate of […]
Report from ULI Conference: The Future of Los Angeles Is Transit and TOD
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A view from the W Hotel. Photo: Gloria Ohland Robust Attendance at ULI Event Indicates Developers, Investors and Feds On Board The Urban Land Institute held a well-attended TOD Summit (as in transit-oriented development, or TOD) in Hollywood on Friday that signifies the quiet revolution going on in the world of transportation and development in […]
TOD in LA Often Means “Transit Oriented Districts”
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(Editors note: Gloria Ohland was on the team that completed the LA TOD study for LA Metro and the City of LA, and was also involved in the U.S. DOT study that compared the GHG emissions of TOD to other development.) Homeowner associations worried about keeping development out of their precious single-family neighborhoods really don’t […]
A Clean, Green, Vertical Los Angeles – The 30/10 Love Train
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These were the place mats awaiting guests at yesterday’s conference. Nice work Transit Coalition – DN (Since leaving the LA Weekly, where she did everything from review bands to serve as transportation writer, Gloria Ohland has been heavily involved in the transit reform scene. Most recently she worked with the T.O.D. advocacy group Reconnecting America. […]