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Independent Citizens’ Advisory and Oversight Committee Meeting Metro Board Room One Gateway Plaza 3rd Floor Los Angeles,CA	Monday, January 11, 2010 11:37 a.m.
San Gabriel Valley Service Sector Council Meeting San Gabriel Valley Sector Office 3449 Santa Anita Ave 3RD Floor El Monte,CA	Monday, January 11, 2010 5 p.m.
Ad Hoc Sustainability Committee Metro Board Room One Gateway Plaza 3rd Floor Los Angeles,CA	Wednesday, January 13, 2010 10 a.m.
Westside/Central Service Sector Council Meeting La Cienega Tennis Center-Sunset Room 325 S. La Cienega Blvd. Beverly Hills,CA	Wednesday, January 13, 2010 5 p.m.
Gateway Cities Service Sector Council Meeting Downey City Hall Council Chambers 11111 Brookshire Avenue Downey,CA	Thursday, January 14, 2010 2 p.m.
Exposition Metro Line Construction Authority Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration 500 W. Temple Third Floor – Board of Supervisor’s Hearing Room 381B Los Angeles,CA	Thursday, January 14, 2010 2:30 p.m.
Planning & Programming Committee Metro Board Room One Gateway Plaza 3rd Floor Los Angeles,CA	Wednesday, January 20, 2010 1 p.m.
Finance & Budget Committee Metro Board Room One Gateway Plaza 3rd Floor Los Angeles,CA	Wednesday, January 20, 2010 2:30 p.m.
Ad Hoc Congestion Pricing Committee Metro Board Room One Gateway Plaza 3rd Floor Los Angeles,CA	Wednesday, January 20, 2010 3 p.m.
Measure R Project Delivery Committee Metro Board Room One Gateway Plaza 3rd Floor Los Angeles,CA	Thursday, January 21, 2010 9 a.m.
Executive Management & Audit Committee Metro Board Room One Gateway Plaza 3rd Floor Los Angeles,CA	Thursday, January 21, 2010 10:30 a.m.
Construction Committee Metro Board Room One Gateway Plaza 3rd Floor Los Angeles,CA	Thursday, January 21, 2010 12 p.m.
Operations Committee Metro Board Room One Gateway Plaza 3rd Floor Los Angeles,CA	Thursday, January 21, 2010 1 p.m.
Regular Board Meeting Metro Board Room One Gateway Plaza 3rd Floor Los Angeles,CA	Thursday, January 28, 2010 9:30 a.m.
Streets and Freeways Subcommittee Metro Board Room One Gateway Plaza 3rd Floor Los Angeles,CA	Thursday, January 14, 2010 9 a.m.
Bus Operations Subcommittee Metro Board Room One Gateway Plaza 3rd Floor Los Angeles,CA	Thursday, January 21, 2010 9:30 a.m.

DEO, PROJECT MANAGEMENT (CONSTRUCTION)

Salary Range: $126,309 - $157,903 - $189,496
External/Internal: EXTERNAL
Closes: 05-MAR-2010

EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE INSTRUCTOR

Salary Range: Start Rate: $31.61 p/hr - Top Rate: $42.15 p/hr
External/Internal: EXTERNAL
Closes: 11-FEB-2010

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, COUNTYWIDE PLANNING

Salary Range: $142,641 - $178,302 - $213,962
External/Internal: EXTERNAL
Closes: Open

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, MAINTENANCE

Salary Range: $142,641 - $178,302 - $213,962
External/Internal: EXTERNAL
Closes: Open

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, TRANSPORTATION

Salary Range: $142,641 - $178,302 - $213,962
External/Internal: EXTERNAL
Closes: Open

FEDERAL ADVOCATE

Salary Range: $70,931 - $88,659 - $106,386
External/Internal: EXTERNAL
Closes: Open

SENIOR AUDITOR (Office of Inspector General)

Salary Range: $59,726 - $74,652 - $89,578
External/Internal: EXTERNAL
Closes: Open

SYSTEMS SAFETY MANAGER

Salary Range: $77,832 - $97,279 - $116,726
External/Internal: EXTERNAL
Closes: Open

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Moscow’s subway dogs

Posted by Steve Hymon on January 25, 2010 at 2:45 p.m.
One of the goals of The Source is to give readers an idea of what’s happening with mass transit and urban planning outside Los Angeles County. In that vein, a fascinating, and sad, story was recently published in the Financial Times about the thousands of stray dogs roaming Moscow. Many ...

Metro.net named “LA’s Best Government Website” by LA Weekly

Posted by Fred Camino on January 16, 2010 at 2:26 p.m.
The votes have been counted and the results are in for LA Weekly’s first annual Los Angeles Web Awards – and Metro has walked away a winner. Thousands of LA Weekly readers nominated websites, blogs and Twitter feeds in 36 different categories specific to the Los Angeles web landscape. The ...

It’s time for more reader email!

Posted by Steve Hymon on January 14, 2010 at 3:15 p.m.
It’s time for another edition of reader email to The Source. If you would like to comment on a post or have something transit-related you need to get off your chest, please email us at thesource@metro.net Michael Setty took issue with the state budget proposal by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger that ...

Looking for five-star transit? Riders review Metro on Yelp

Posted by Fred Camino on January 5, 2010 at 10:53 a.m.
Most savvy web users know Yelp as the place to go for local restaurant reviews from regular folks. In fact, this past November The Source used Yelp to compile a list of popular restaurants along the Gold Line Eastside extension and it worked out pretty well. What many might not ...

Cell service may be coming to subway

Posted by Steve Hymon on December 30, 2009 at 10:33 a.m.
First, a few words of caution: this is something that is very much in the development stage. But it appears that Metro is going to move ahead and seriously begin exploring a way to provide cell phone service to subway passengers now that some security concerns have been addressed. Other ...

Metro launches official Facebook page and wants you to become a fan

Posted by Fred Camino on December 22, 2009 at 11:36 a.m.
After a month of testing, Metro has officially launched its official Facebook presence, joining the ranks of everyone you know including grandma and that weird guy you kinda remember from high school. What’s the point? Metro is looking to harness the power of social networking to better interact with its ...

Barcelona partially opens new subway

Posted by Steve Hymon on December 21, 2009 at 3:44 p.m.
A new subway line running under Barcelona — and connecting to the city’s airport — opened its first five stations earlier this month. With the subway extension being planned on the Westside, I thought you may enjoy playing around with the three links below to powerpoint presentations about the new ...

New interactive mashup puts Metro and L.A. attractions on the same map

Posted by Fred Camino on December 16, 2009 at 9:19 a.m.
Even though I visit the Experience LA website every week to help compile our Go Metro Weekends guide, I didn’t find out about their awesome new Google maps mashup until last week when LAist had a post about it. Granted, the map has only been around for a few weeks, ...

Where are those new Gold Line stations, Google Transit?

Posted by Steve Hymon on December 1, 2009 at 11:17 p.m.
View Larger Map An alert Metro customer recently wrote the agency with a salient question: why don’t the new Eastside Gold Line stations appear on Google Transit, the popular trip planner? If you want to see an example of what the customer means, look close at the above map. The ...

Want Metro apps? The data is out there

Posted by Fred Camino on November 30, 2009 at 12:45 p.m.
In June of this year Metro officially released transit route and schedule data to the public via the Metro developer site (http://developer.metro.net). The announcement brought about some excited chatter on local blogs, mostly in anticipation for Google Transit, but after the Google launch in July it seemed like the Metro ...

Metro seeks input on proposed bus service changes

Posted by Fred Camino on January 20, 2010 at 2:49 p.m.
Every six months Metro shakes things up with bus service changes meant to increase efficiency by modifying existing service based on a number of factors including ridership, budgetary concerns and public input. Although the most recent “shake-up” was little more than a month ago, Metro is already planning for proposed ...

Metro customer relations wants more customer input!

Posted by Jody Litvak on January 12, 2010 at 2:12 p.m.
We Want to Hear From You. Really! Whether you are a bus or rail passenger, frequent or occasional rider, veteran or newcomer, we value you as a customer. Your input matters and we want you to tell us when things go well, when they don't, or your ideas about our ...

Welcome to Metro Minutes

Posted by Rick Jager on January 7, 2010 at 11:03 a.m.
New to The Source is a feature called Metro Minutes, an audio recording that you can click on and hear Metro’s Chief Executive Officer Art Leahy talk about transportation related news and information. In this first edition of Metro Minutes, Art Leahy reflects on the past year at the agency ...

Over 60k ride the Gold Line on New Year’s Day

Posted by Fred Camino on January 6, 2010 at 10:09 a.m.
Metro officials estimate that between 61,000 and 65,000 passengers rode the Gold Line on New Year’s Day. Metro provided increased service and heavily promoted the Gold Line as an easy alternative to driving to the Rose Bowl events in Pasadena. This was also the first year residents of East L.A. ...

A decade of Metro milestones

Posted by Fred Camino on December 30, 2009 at 2:29 a.m.
The first decade of the 2000’s has been ripe with accomplishments for Metro and transportation improvements in Los Angeles County. What follows is a list of 30 notable achievements and moments in the past decade. Some may be more important to you than others, but most hopefully show a measure ...

Metro's employees donate more than 2,000 gifts for needy families served by the Fred Jordan Mission

Posted by Jose Ubaldo on December 16, 2009 at 2:16 p.m.
Metro employees this morning donated more then 2,000 gifts for children and needy families served by the Fred Jordan Mission in downtown Los Angeles. The event took place at the entrance to Metro's Gateway headquarters where pre-school children from the Metro Day Care Center, the Metro Choir and volunteers helped ...

Stuff a bus or two with toys today

Posted by Kim Upton on December 11, 2009 at 9:00 a.m.
Metro is again partnering with Southland firefighters and ABC7 to stuff a bus — or maybe two or three — with toys for deserving children. Just drop off new unwrapped toys or sports equipment at the Metro bus parked at Gateway Plaza Center, 21949 Ventura Blvd. (the corner of Ventura ...

Metro board meeting underway

Posted by Steve Hymon on December 10, 2009 at 10:25 a.m.
The December meeting of the Metro Board of Directors has begun and it’s a packed house here at One Gateway. Most of the crowd appears to be here for the vote on the Crenshaw line. The Board is set to vote today on the Metro staff recommendation on making Crenshaw ...

Video: a day in the life of a bus operator

Posted by Fred Camino on December 7, 2009 at 12:38 p.m.
I stumbled upon the video posted on the Metro Library YouTube channel thanks to a post from UCLA’s Be A Green Commuter blog. It’s a promo video Metro produced to aid in the recruitment of bus operators, so obviously it’s a bit one-sided. But I found it contained some pretty ...

Numbers tell the story about Metro: riders seem pleased, but many have few travel options

Posted by Steve Hymon on December 1, 2009 at 3:13 p.m.
At a meeting of Metro officials last week, an interesting discussion broke out about a customer survey the agency did earlier this year. Was it really true that just 68% of passengers on Metro buses and trains had a working cell phone with them? And just 37% overall had smart ...