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L.A. Metro To Host Three Traffic Reduction Study Meetings This Month

City News ServiceFebruary 4, 2021

The Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority will hold three virtual public meetings this month to present the public with ideas for a potential pilot program to study reducing traffic, officials said today. The two-year study will try to determine if strategies like congestion pricing and transportation options could make it easier for people to get around the area, Metro stated. A recommended pilot will be brought to the Metro board in partnership with one or more cities for their consideration. Metro officials say long-term regional growth has outpaced efforts to ease traffic, and while traffic was reduced during the COVID-19

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L.A. Metro CEO Phillip Washington To Step Down In May

City News ServiceFebruary 4, 2021

Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority CEO Phillip A. Washington is stepping down after six years at the helm of the transit agency, it was announced today. Washington informed the Metro board, headed by Mayor Eric Garcetti, that he does not plan to seek a new contract or extend his current contract, which expires in May.

It’s Time for Herb Wesson
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It’s Time for Herb Wesson

Yvonne Brathwaite-Burke, 2nd District Supervisor (ret.)February 13, 2020

We see L.A. City Council President Herb Wesson on TV and in the paper, most often addressing the day’s crisis and warding off threatened challenges in the 10th District or the city at large. Herb is now a candidate for the 2ndSupervisorial District of the county of Los Angeles.  I met Herb when he was an administrative assistant to Councilman Nate Holden.  I didn’t realize at that time that he started his career in the ounty of Los Angeles, working in the Personnel Dept.  It was there he met another employee of the county, Fabian, who would become his wife.

Metro CEO, Phillip A. Washington Driving MTA into the Future
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Metro CEO, Phillip A. Washington Driving MTA into the Future

Sentinel Staff Report/[email protected]June 22, 2015

Decorated Army Seargeant chosen to lead nation’s third largest transit authority. The national search to find the next Chief Executive Officer at Metro halted swiftly after the Metro board of directors examined the qualifications of Denver Regional Transportation District (RTD) General Manager, Phillip A. Washington. In the L.A. Sentinel’s exclusive interview with Washington, his powerful personal story about his own experiences and his perspective about social equity was bold and unapologetic. “Yes, there was a search process and I did interview with some competition out there; yes, there was a process. And I’m happy to say that I was successful,”