CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
November 27, 1990 | JEFFREY A. PERLMAN
Orange County transportation officials on Monday established a new rail program office, to be headed by veteran transit planner Brian Pearson. The action came during a joint meeting of the Orange County Transit District board and the Orange County Transportation Commission, which are in the process of merging into one super agency. Pearson, 51, of Laguna Hills, is the transit district's director of development.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
May 20, 1990 | JEFFREY A. PERLMAN, TIMES URBAN AFFAIRS WRITER
Keith McKean has a nightmare: He is driving along a newly widened, 12-lane freeway between Irvine and Santa Ana when a sea of brake lights suddenly appears ahead, forcing him to come to a dead stop. The freeway ahead has narrowed to only six lanes and traffic has backed up. McKean, however, is not just any commuter suffering from traffic stress. He is director of the California Department of Transportation's district office in Orange County.
NEWS
March 23, 1993 | JEFFREY A. PERLMAN, TIMES URBAN AFFAIRS WRITER
For the first time, Orange County transportation officials on Monday began eyeing El Toro Marine Corps Air Station as a possible site for rail, park-and-ride and other transit facilities as well as a commercial airport.
NEWS
July 1, 2000 | H.G. REZA, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Orange County's share of the $100-billion state budget signed by Gov. Davis on Friday includes $242 million for transportation projects, almost all of it for the widening of the Garden Grove Freeway. Dave Simpson, spokesman for the Orange County Transportation Authority, said $206 million will be used to expand the 12.5-mile-long freeway. The estimated cost of the entire project, which will allow carpool lanes to be added, is about $300 million, he said.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
March 27, 1990 | JEFFREY A. PERLMAN, TIMES URBAN AFFAIRS WRITER
At an unusually divisive joint session Monday, Orange County transportation officials clashed over a proposed use of transit funds to add lanes to the Orange Freeway and make loans to the county's tollway agency and Caltrans. The Orange County Transportation Commission split 4 to 3 in favor of the proposal, while the Orange County Transit District board sought a 60-day delay on the issue, voting 4 to 0 with Supervisor Don R. Roth absent.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
September 25, 2001 | DAN WEIKEL, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Drawing up a wish list designed to head off "complete gridlock," the Orange County Transportation Authority on Monday adopted a strategic plan that recommends spending $4.6 billion on transit projects over the next 10 years. "This is a commitment to deliver," said Supervisor Todd Spitzer, vice chairman of the authority's board of directors. "We have a responsibility to build on what Measure M was created for."