{"id":37557,"date":"2015-01-07T11:30:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T16:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smart-union.dev\/news\/l-a-metros-top-transit-executive-to-step-down\/"},"modified":"2015-01-07T11:30:53","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T16:30:53","slug":"l-a-metros-top-transit-executive-to-step-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/l-a-metros-top-transit-executive-to-step-down\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A. 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But in an interview with The Times, Leahy, 65, said leaving Metro was his choice.<\/p>\n<p>Read the complete story at the <a href=\"http:\/\/touch.latimes.com\/#section\/-1\/article\/p2p-82472427\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chief executive of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority said Tuesday that he would step down in April after six years of overseeing both high-profile failures and major milestones during the most ambitious rail expansion agenda in the agency&#8217;s history. 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