BRIEFLY.MTA (1) (Message Transfer Agent or Mail Transfer Agent) The store and forward part of a messaging system. See messaging system. (2) See M Technology Association. 1. (messaging) MTA - Message Transfer Agent. panel OKs security motions Security on Los Angeles County trains and buses could soon be bolstered thanks to more than $3 million in contracts and funds approved Thursday by a Metropolitan Transportation Authority committee. The two motions approved by the five-member Executive Management and Audit Committee still need the backing of the full MTA board, which will vote at its Sept. 29 meeting. The committee approved $1.1 million to replace out-of-date video recording systems on older buses. The project, which now has a $2.17 million budget, will install new systems on 397 buses. The panel also ratified a $2 million contract with AJK Communications to install security surveillance equipment at rail stations. - City News Service LAX will take out illegal fan palms Los Angeles International Airport “LAX” redirects here. For other uses, see LAX (disambiguation). “KLAX” redirects here. For other uses, see KLAX (disambiguation). Los Angeles International Airport (IATA: LAX, ICAO: KLAX, FAA LID: LAX will spend $200,000 to uproot and replant re·plant v. To reattach an organ, limb, or other body part surgically to the original site. n. An organ, limb, or body part that has been replanted. dozens of palm trees that it illegally planted around the airfield five years ago. LAX officials expected the 92 Mexican fan palms would spruce up a grungy grun·gy adj. grun·gi·er, grun·gi·est Slang In a dirty, rundown, or inferior condition: grungy old jeans. [Origin unknown. stretch of land just outside the airfield's chain-link fence. But some nearby residents complained that the tall palms blocked ocean views. The Urban Wildlands Group claimed they were illegal, nonnative vegetation that was put in without a required state permit. The California Coastal Commission The California Coastal Commission is a state agency in the U.S. state of California with quasi-judicial regulatory influence over land use and public access in the California coastal zone. ordered the airport to remove the trees. The Board of Airport Commissioners approved the removal expenditures this week. - Associated Press School bus crash snarls 134 traffic GLENDALE - A Glendale Unified School District The Glendale Unified School District is a school district based in Glendale, California, United States. The school district serves the city of Glendale, portions of the city of La Cañada and the unincorporated communities of Montrose and La Crescenta. bus collided with two other vehicles on the Ventura Freeway, sending one youngster to a hospital as a precaution, tying up traffic and sparking a small brush fire. The fire blackened black·en v. black·ened, black·en·ing, black·ens v.tr. 1. To make black. 2. To sully or defame: a scandal that blackened the mayor's name. 3. about a half-acre of vegetation on a freeway embankment near Jackson Street and prompted the evacuation of about 10 families from a nearby apartment building before Glendale firefighters extinguished the flames. Only two youngsters were on the small school bus when the crash occurred, Glendale Fire Capt. Bill Lynch said. The 3:22 p.m. Thursday collision closed part of the westbound freeway and a Glendale Avenue on-ramp. - Daily News Feinstein urges 405 design-build Sen. Dianne Feinstein urged the leader of the state Senate on Thursday to pass legislation that would allow the 405 car-pool lane to be built with the design-build method as soon as the Legislature reconvenes in January. The California Democrat called on Senate President Pro Tem president pro tem n. pl. presidents pro tem Informal A president pro tempore. Don Perata, D-Oakland, to pass the provision supported by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and others as a way to secure $130 million in federal funds but opposed by the state's engineering union. The Senate adjourned abruptly last week without considering the legislation, which passed in the Assembly after last-minute talks. - Daily News Southland ports get federal grants The Port of Long Beach received a $12.8 million grant from the Department of Homeland Security Noun 1. Department of Homeland Security - the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security Homeland Security executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States for communications and underwater surveillance systems, port officials announced Thursday. The Port of Long Beach is spending $4.2 million of its own funds on the projects as part of a cost-sharing provision of the federal port security program, according to port spokesman Art Wong. The Port of Los Angeles The Port of Los Angeles is located on San Pedro Bay in the San Pedro neighborhood of Los Angeles, approximately 20 miles (30 km) south of downtown. Also called Los Angeles Harbor and WORLDPORT LA was awarded an $11.4 million grant from the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday. Much of the money will be used to support a new fiber optic data transfer network that will provide essential communication capability between the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports, said Joe Ramallo of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's office. The Port of Los Angeles will spend an additional $3.74 million as part of the program's cost-sharing provision. - City News Service |
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