Art Leahy
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Heavyweights Gather to Discuss Mayor’s Ten Year Measure R Proposal
Monday Dec. 14 at 6:30 p.m. Move LA and the Los Angeles County Museum
of Art are co-sponsoring a public meeting on Strategies to Accelerate
the Development of the Wilshire Subway and Other Measure R Projects in
Los Angeles County--What You Can Do to Help Implement the Measure R
30-Year Plan in 10 Years! The meeting will be held at the Museum's Brown Auditorium, in the Art of the
Americas building off the Central Court. The Museum is at 5905 Wilshire
Bl. just east of Fairfax.
December 9, 2009
Streetsblog Interview: Introducing Art Leahy
When entering Metro CEO Art Leahy's office, you can't help but notice that he's a sports fan and a native Angeleno. His wall is decorated with USC football paraphernalia and his bookshelf has a couple of Los Angeles Dodgers bobbleheads and other memorabilia from Dodgertown. When staff that happened to graduate from UCLA are in the room, they get ribbed. I also took some flack that my choice in favored baseball teams was also lightly mocked.
July 16, 2009
Metro Sort of Passes Budget, Punts on Ansaldo Breda, Insults Public
The big news from today's Metro Board meeting was that after our leaders subjected themselves to the pain of listening to the public, they were able to sorta-kinda pass the FY 2010 budget and put off a decision on whether to abandon their contract with Ansaldo Breda for another two months.
May 28, 2009
Leahy Outlines His Vision for Metro at Calpirg Conference
There were a lot of highlights from last Friday's "21st Century Transportation for Los Angeles" conference sponsored by CalPIRG, but many of them will require more research before I can write a full story on them. From Asm. Mike Eng's channeling of Gavin Newsom when he declared that the 710 Tunneling Project is going to happen "whether we like it or not" to a discussion of pedi-cabs downtown, there was a lot of interesting discussion.
May 4, 2009