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  • Web Chat: Ask Everything You've Always Wanted to Know About Light Rail

      This Thursday, you'll have a chance to ask anything and everything you've ever wanted to know about the five light-rail lines METRO is building. The man in charge of building out those rail lines is Bryan Pennington, senior vice president of engineering and construction at METRO. Pennington's been at METRO three and a half ...
    Posted to Write On METRO (Weblog) by Mary Sit on July 15, 2008
  • Chief Tom Lambert Answers Web Chat Questions

      Today, Chief Tom Lambert hosted our fifth Web chat, open to questions on safety, security and any METRO Police Department program. Below is a transcript of the chat.  (12:02:30 PM) Tom Lambert: Q: Why is it not feasible to have someone riding giving tickets out on the light rail everyday? I think three or four tickets would pay for ...
    Posted to Write On METRO (Weblog) by Mary Sit on June 3, 2008
  • Chief Tom Lambert to Host Next Web Chat

      Our next monthly Web chat will be hosted by Chief Tom Lambert next Tuesday, June 3. The chat, from noon to 1 p.m., will be open to any questions on safety and security in our METRO system or anything over which the METRO Police Department has jurisdiction. Lambert, who has been police chief since the creation of MPD in 1982, has ...
    Posted to Write On METRO (Weblog) by Mary Sit on May 29, 2008
  • Here's the Transcript of Fourth Web Chat

      Today at noon, about 44 of you joined our Web chat, Transit Talk, to ask questions of Frank J. Wilson, president and CEO of METRO. We received questions submitted in advance on this blog, plus questions live during the chat - far more than Wilson could answer. Questions ranged from METRO Solutions to the design of our train station stops. ...
    Posted to Write On METRO (Weblog) by Mary Sit on May 2, 2008
  • Don’t Hold Back: Web Chat This Friday

     Come join us for our fourth Web chat, Transit Talk,  once again hosted by our President and CEO, Frank J. Wilson. It will be this Friday, May 2, from noon to 1 p.m. Ask anything you’re curious about – as long as it’s METRO-related. Are you wondering what’s happening with our light-rail lines and the ...
    Posted to Write On METRO (Weblog) by Mary Sit on April 28, 2008
  • Lunchtime Web Chat This Friday

      This Friday, February 15, you'll have a chance to chat with METRO during your lunchtime. We promised you monthly Web chats - and exactly one month ago today, we launched Transit Talk, where 64 of you logged on to the conversation. Our second monthly Web chat is slated for Friday from noon to 1 p.m. - and once again, our CEO and ...
    Posted to Write On METRO (Weblog) by Mary Sit on February 12, 2008
  • Post-Game Thoughts on First Web Chat

    Unlike most corporate Web chats, we did not keep your questions in a holding tank yesterday to review and preselect before answering. Questions came flying in, one after the other, while Frank J. Wilson, our president and CEO, was busy answering the first question. We are posting a link below to the transcript – cleaned up to remove all ...
    Posted to Write On METRO (Weblog) by Mary Sit on January 16, 2008
  • METRO's First Web Chat a Success

      A great big thank you to the 64 users who logged on and joined the conversation in our first Web chat today at noon. From our end, Transit Talk was very successful. Everyone followed the guidelines, was respectful and asked really good questions. In fact, we were inundated with questions flying at us from different users all at once - and ...
    Posted to Write On METRO (Weblog) by Mary Sit on January 15, 2008
  • Transit Talk: Your Chance to Chat with the CEO

      Starting tomorrow, we are launching monthly lunchtime chats. Frank J. Wilson, our president and CEO is scheduled to host our first chat on Tuesday, noon to 1 p.m. He will be available to answer your questions on buses, METRORail, or METROSolutions  - our plan to build five light-rail lines. We plan to conduct monthly chats with top ...
    Posted to Write On METRO (Weblog) by Mary Sit on January 14, 2008