Born out of the idea that you and I would be better served with planning and operation functions under one roof, we said goodbye to the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission and the Southern California Rapid Transit District and hello to MTA.
He served as director of human resources for the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission and later held a position with the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority.
Navy, Army Corps of Engineers, railroads, trucking industry and the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission (predecessor to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority).
But disputing this were Ted Robertson, a Bus Riders Union organizer who analyzes the frequency and causes of Metro Bus overcrowding, and Tom Rubin, a consultant for the Bus Riders Union who was once the Southern California Rapid Transit District's chief financial officer and spent a year in a similar capacity after the RTD was combined with the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission in 1993 to form the MTA.
26 meeting: * In connection with an item regarding MTA employees' retirement benefits, MTA employees who formerly worked for the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission announced that they have formed an employee association and hired an attorney and are prepared to take the MTA to court if the authority cuts their benefits.
Richard Katz, D-Sylmar, author of the legislation that created the MTA through the merger of the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission and the Southern California Rapid Transit District.
The MTA board will be asked Thursday to approve the sale of former Los Angeles County Transportation Commission head Neil Peterson's Long Beach home for no less than $265,000, after lending him $350,000 in 1989 to buy it.
