Art Leahy is CEO of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro); he began his four-decade transit career driving a bus in L.A., where he grew up. Before participating in a panel on what could speed up L.A. traffic, he shared some Metro war stories—involving scary passengers and ugly neckties—in the Zócalo green room.
“Can you think of a city in the United States that was more determined by the railroad” than Los Angeles? Chapman University English scholar Tom Zoellner, author of Train, opened …
How did rail gain a foothold in a car culture city? UCLA and UC Berkeley legal, business, and environmental scholar Ethan N. Elkind used archival documents, contemporary news accounts, and …
Trains and rail are inseparable from California’s past. When Leland Stanford hammered “The Golden Spike” in an 1869 ceremony in Utah, he united the first transcontinental railway in the U.S.—and …
The Los Angeles Times has said that we’re living in a golden age of public transportation in Los Angeles. But try telling that to the people stuck on the 10 …
In early 1999, when I was trying to establish myself in Los Angeles as an artist, I supported myself by working at a temp agency that placed me at The …
