Transportation hub

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LOS ANGELES

Joseph McMahon, a for-merproducer on theDiscov-ery Channel reality program“Deadliest Catch,” wasfound fatally shot early Fri-day in the3600blockofYork-shireRoad inPasadena, andlater Friday, the man sus-pected of killing him wasfound dead of a self-inflictedgunshot wound, authorities

said.The suspect, whose iden-

tity hasn’t been released,was founddeadinsidehisve-hicle about 4 p.m. in the 300block of North Kenter Ave-nue in Brentwood, Los An-geles County sheriff ’s de-tectives said.

Sheriff ’s officials did notsay how the men knew eachother.

Deputies responded to areport of a possible gunshotvictim about 2:19 a.m. inPasadena, according to Lt.Holly Francisco of the Sher-iff ’sDepartment.

When deputies arrived,they found McMahon, 24,with multiple gunshotwounds to his torso, lying onthe street not far from his

parents’ home, where helived, shesaid.Hediedat thescene.

McMahon’s family couldnot immediately be reachedfor comment.

Detectives say they don’tknow why McMahon wasgunned down. He had nohistory of drug use andwasn’t involved in gangs,Francisco said.

Detectives were lookingfor surveillance video foot-age in the area, Franciscosaid. They want to interviewfriends, family, former co-workersoranyonewhoknewMcMahon.

veronica.rocha@latimes.com@VeronicaRochaLA.

Ex-TV producer is shot to deathMan suspected ofslaying JosephMcMahon inPasadena later killedhimself, officials say.

By Veronica Rocha

Al Seib Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES COUNTY coroner officials and sheriff’s deputies investigate thefatal shooting of JosephMcMahon in east Pasadena on Friday.

The boyfriend of Los An-geles police officer-turned-reality TV attorney Loreda-na Nesci was charged withmurderFriday,buthisattor-neysaidherdeathwasacaseof self-defense.

The arraignment forRobert Reagan, 51, was de-layed until Aug. 12 at the re-quest of attorney ShepardKopp.

In an emailed statementto the Los Angeles Times,Kopp said Nesci tried to at-tack his client with a knifeWednesdayandhedefendedhimself.

“Loredana Nesci was aformer LAPD officer, highlytrained in the use of deadlyweapons.Shewasalsoanav-id body builder, and was ex-ceptionally strong. She at-tacked Robert with a hunt-ing knife in the midst of adomestic dispute,” Koppwrote. “While defendinghimself against her assaultwith a deadly weapon, Rob-ert tried to disarm her, andin the intense struggle thatensued she tragically suf-fered a fatal wound. Robertis not guilty of committingany criminal offense.”

Nesci, the 47-year-oldstar of SundanceTV’s “Lore-dana,Esq.,”waskilled insidethe home she shared withReagan,RedondoBeachpo-lice Sgt. Fabian Saucedosaid. Reagan is being held inlieuof $1-millionbail.

Nesci joined the Los An-geles Police Department in1996 and worked as a patrolofficer in the Southwest Di-vision,accordingtoabiogra-phy on her website. AnLAPD spokeswoman de-clined to confirm whetherNesci was a former employ-ee, citing privacy issues.Nesci left the department in1998 and enrolled in lawschool in Connecticut, re-turning in 2004 to Californiaandmelding her legal careerwith pursuits in entertain-ment andmedia.

joseph.serna@latimes.comTwitter:@JosephSerna

Murderchargein TVstar’skillingBoyfriend is indicted;attorney says he wasacting in self-defenseagainst the woman.

By Joseph Serna

KTLA

LOREDANA NESCI, aformer LAPD officer,was killed in her Re-dondo Beach home.

Planes, trains and auto-mobiles — and buses andbikes and even good oldwalking.

All thesemodes of trans-portation converge at BobHope Airport, and a recenttransit studyoutlinespoten-tial improvements aroundthe airport to enable it toserve as a transportationhubwithin the region.

The study, which was ini-tiated inSeptember 2011andpaid formostly by a $5.4-mil-lion federal grant, looked atways to reduce traffic con-gestion and air pollutionwhile improving connectiv-ity to the airport both alongthe Antelope Valley rail cor-ridor and fromPasadena viaGlendale.

Massive changes are ex-pected in the airport area,with plans for a modern re-placement terminal undernegotiationwiththecityanda proposed high-speed railstation under considerationat the state level.

A roughly 58-acre air-port-owned property, theformer location of Lock-heed’s B-6 plant, is beingmarketed for sale and is ex-pectedtoattractthe interestof developersworldwide.

The authors of the studynote that theairport is ideal-ly situated to be the “epicen-ter for multi-modal connec-tivity for the San FernandoValley,” but they attributelow use of transit by airportemployees and travelers to“several large gaps” in thetransit network — particu-larly the lack of a direct con-nection toMetro trains, busor light rail.

According to the study,about three-fourths of air-port employees and passen-

gers drive their own vehiclesto the airport—another13%of passengers drive rentalcars — but the percentagesfor taking any of the othertransit options were in thesingle digits for eachgroup.

Though the Burbank-Glendale-PasadenaAirportAuthority’s power is limitedto airport property, throughthestudy itsoughttoactasacatalyst for transit improve-mentthroughouttheregion,Mark Hardyment, the air-port’s director of govern-

ment and environmental af-fairs, said in a report aboutthe study during an author-itymeeting lastweek.

That required partner-ships with entities such asthe city of Los Angeles, LosAngeles County Metropoli-tan Transportation Author-ity and the California De-partment of Transporta-tion, he said, adding that “inmany cases, we found thatthe authority had becomevery insulated, and we hadto develop these partner-

ships.”The airport’s efforts

helped spur some projectsthat were initiated beforethe study was completed,Hardyment said, such astraffic mitigation measuresrelated to 5 Freeway con-struction projects and aplanned Metrolink stationon Hollywood Way and SanFernandoBoulevard.

Tyler Bonstead, a con-sultant with STV Inc. wholed the study effort, alsonoted the recent increased

Burbank Bus service be-tween the North HollywoodMetro station and the air-port as improvements iden-tified in the study thathad already been imple-mented.

Capital and operationalimprovements and commit-ments stimulated by thestudy totaled $38 million,said Norm Emerson of Em-erson&Associates, who as-sistedwith the study.

The airport could furtherleverage its investment toattract new funding fromsources such as the state’scap-and-trade program, hesaid.

The study proposes in-creasing the frequency ofMetrolink trains serving theairport to fill gaps in serviceduring the day, installingdisplays at the air terminalwith information about ar-riving and departing trainsto encourage ridership, aswell as an express freewaybus from the airport to aMetro Gold Line station inPasadena — Hardymentsaid the latter is already be-ingplanned.

Longer-term and higher-cost improvements, whichBonstead said could be 20 to30 years in themaking, suchas extension of the MetroRedLine to the airport area,anautomatedpeople-moverto connect the nearbyMetrolink stations to theterminal and possibly lightrail service to Pasadena,were also evaluated.

“Something to keep inmindonsomeofthese isthatthe long-term ones maymake sense as other types ofimprovements come intothe area, like, say, a high-speed rail station,” Bon-stead said. “At that point,you’d have a lot of interest insomething like a Red Lineconnection to the airportarea.”

chad.garland@latimes.comTwitter:@chadgarlandGarland is a reporter forTimesCommunityNews.

Luis Sinco Los Angeles Times

THE STUDY NOTED that the airport is situated to be the “epicenter for multi-modal connectivity for the San Fernando Valley” butattributes low transit use to gaps in the network — specifically the lack of a direct connection to theMetro trains, bus or light rail.

Hope for a transportation hubTransit study outlinesimprovements fortraffic congestion, airpollution in Burbank.

By Chad Garland

Raul Roa Burbank Leader

CHANGES are expected near the airport, with plans for a modern replacementterminal under negotiation and a high-speed rail station under consideration.