Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Art Leahy

Tomorrow Night: Metro CEO Art Leahy Speaks to the Transit Coalition

By Damien Newton | Jun 21, 2010 | No Comments

Arts got smarts. Photo: Daily News 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 […]

A Review of the Metro Sector Governance Council’s Meet and Confer

By Dana Gabbard | Mar 5, 2010 | 12 Comments

(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) Leahy’s vision was […]

We’re Number 1…In Auto Congestion

By Damien Newton | Jan 20, 2010 | 7 Comments

Photo provided by: da90027/Flickr 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 […]

Move L.A. Wants to Get Moving!

By Stephen Box | Dec 15, 2009 | 4 Comments

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 […]

Heavyweights Gather to Discuss Mayor’s Ten Year Measure R Proposal

By Dana Gabbard | Dec 9, 2009 | 2 Comments

Two years to pass the Metro Board, nut only ten years to build? 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 […]

Streetsblog Interview: Introducing Art Leahy

By Damien Newton | Jul 16, 2009 | 14 Comments

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 […]

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