Metro Chief Communications Officer (CCO) Pauletta Tonilas has announced that she has accepted the position of Assistant General Manager, Communications, at the Regional Transportation District (RTD) in Denver. Metro CEO Phil Washington will name an interim CCO and said that a national search for Pauletta’s replacement will soon commence. Pauletta [continue reading]
Here’s the news release from Metro: Metro proposes to offer free rides to students of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) in the event of a teachers’ strike that may begin on Thursday, January 10. Metro CEO Phillip A. Washington, in consultation with L.A. County Supervisor and Metro Board [continue reading]
And so it begins…2019. Among the transpo-related news in the first week of the new year: •LAUSD teachers could go on strike beginning Thursday. The district says that schools will [continue reading]
January is almost here; on behalf of the Metro Regional Service Councils team have a pleasant and healthy 2019! This month, all Service Councils will host NextGen workshops in their regions. Come to a workshop to learn more about the NextGen Bus study. With your input, we can work together [continue reading]
As per usual around these parts, there were no shortage of happenings in 2018. Without further ado, below are some of the more notable nuggets from the past year as [continue reading]
Metro will hold 10 community meetings beginning in January to ask for the public’s help in the agency’s NextGen Bus Study, the effort to redesign and reimagine the agency’s bus system to meet the needs of today’s riders. Here is a Source post from earlier this fall about the study. [continue reading]
Elon Musk and The Boring Co. held their long-awaited event last night in Hawthorne to show the public their 1.14-mile test tunnel. Key graphs from the LAT: The company previously said its planned urban transportation network, called the Loop, would whisk cars and pods through multiple levels of tunnels on [continue reading]
With last week’s selection of LA Metro Deputy Chief Executive Officer Stephanie Wiggins as the new Chief Executive Officer of Metrolink, Metro CEO Phillip A. Washington has appointed Ms. Nadine Lee as LA Metro’s Interim Chief of Staff, a newly created position. Nadine is currently Deputy Chief Innovation Officer for [continue reading]
The Blue Line will undergo a comprehensive $350-million modernization beginning Jan. 26 to improve reliability, enhance safety and improve the customer experience. From Jan. 26 to late May, Blue Line [continue reading]
The Metrolink Board of Directors this morning hired Metro Deputy CEO Stephanie Wiggins as Metrolink’s next CEO. Metrolink runs regional commuter rail across five counties — Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura with service also to Oceanside in San Diego County. Here is the statement on Stephanie’s hiring [continue reading]
