MTA Board Selects Acting CEO as New Transit Chief
Los Angeles County transit officials on Wednesday unanimously approved the selection of Joseph E. Drew as the new chief executive officer of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. He will receive $167,640 a year.
“My sleeves are rolled up, and that’s the way it will stay,” said Drew, a decorated combat pilot and former Kern County chief administrator who has been acting chief of the giant transit agency since Franklin E. White’s ouster last December.
Drew, 52, will have his work cut out for him overseeing the politically charged agency and its troubled subway project.
![Irvine, CA - July 16: Gina Osborn, shown at her home, is the former head of Metro security is suing the agency for firing her after she filed a claim with the Inspector General. Photo taken at her home Tuesday, July 16, 2024. Gina Osborn, a former FBI agent who was the agency's first chief safety officer, "was summarily terminated by [Chief Executive] Stephanie Wiggins," said her attorney, Marc R. Greenberg. Osborn says in claims that she butted heads with Metro's CEO over security as the agency was trying to put a good face on its efforts to clean up crime and loitering. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/98f27b1/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5981x4000+9+0/resize/1024x685!/format/webp/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F46%2F07%2Fa88ac0b7466895ee4e137839d93c%2F1467168-me-former-metro-security-chief-18-ajs.jpg)
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