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Metrolink Hires Art Leahy As CEO, To Start April 2015
The Metrolink board of directors voted unanimously this morning to hire Art Leahy as CEO.
March 13, 2015
Pick Who You Think Will Replace Metro CEO Art Leahy
Earlier this week Metro CEO Art Leahy tendered his resignation as of April, 2015. Today, in a somewhat tongue-in-cheek way, we invite you, our readers, to pick Leahy's successor.
January 9, 2015
Metro CEO Art Leahy Steps Down, Effective April 2015
CEO Art Leahy is leaving Metro as of April 2015.
January 7, 2015
Memo to Metro CEO Art Leahy: They’re Called Bicycle Boulevards
At today's Metro Sustainability Committee, Metro CEO Art Leahy mentioned that he had visited Portland, Oregon. While there, he saw an "interesting treatment" for low volume streets making them better for bicycling. Leahy stated that cars hadn't been removed from the streets, but that they were diverted in some places. He said that these low volume streets carry hundreds of bicyclists every day.
April 16, 2014
Have a Question for Art Leahy But Can’t Make Tuesday’s Transit Coalition Meeting? Leave Your Question Here.
Next Tuesday, Metro CEO Art Leahy will be the featured speaker of the Transit Coalition at their monthly meeting for the second time in as many months. The reason for Leahy's return? There were so many questions at the last meeting, he didn't have a chance to answer them all.
March 18, 2011
Metro Proposes More Cuts to Bus System
Earlier this week, Metro announced another set of proposed cuts to its bus system. Following so soon on the cuts from just last month, Metro CEO Art Leahy took to The Source to defend the changes. Oddly, rather than defend the good work being done by the bus division at Metro and push for the state to finally restore funds pledged to transit operations but spent on closing a gap in the general fund. Instead, he tries to sell the cancellation of nine bus routes and reductions on dozens more.
January 5, 2011
Tomorrow Night: Metro CEO Art Leahy Speaks to the Transit Coalition
Tomorrow night at 7:00 P.M. Metro CEO Art Leahy will speak and take questions at The Transit Coalition's monthly meeting at Philippe the Original in downtown L.A. Love him or hate him, the affable Leahy has been more open about his plans and vision for Metro with the press and advocates than either his contemporaries at other agencies or predecessors. He even sat down for a Streetsblog interview last summer.
June 21, 2010
A Review of the Metro Sector Governance Council’s Meet and Confer
(Author's note: this write-up was delayed when I was hit with a particular vicious bout of flu that made me bed ridden for 9 days. But since no one in the media (including Metro's own bloggers!) attended it is still timely and informative as the sole coverage of this event. - DG)
March 5, 2010
We’re Number 1…In Auto Congestion
News website The Daily Beast crunches the numbers from the most congested areas in America and finds, to nobody's surprise, that the worst driving commute in America is right here in Los Angeles. The Hollywood Freeway ranks as the worst place to commute in the entire country based on rush hour congestion, the worst bottleneck, and the average amount of congestion per week at the worst bottleneck.
January 20, 2010
Move L.A. Wants to Get Moving!
Denny Zane is calling on the Measure R Champions and challenging them to engage in a second round of battle, this time mobilizing to embrace the 30/10 campaign which will leverage the anticipated $40 Billion in funding and then expedite the process so that 30 years of transit construction can be completed in the next 10 years.
December 15, 2009