This Week in Livable Streets

The Regional Connector subway gets boring! Or gets exciting, as it were. Plus Metro meetings, bike counts, T.R.U.S.T. South L.A. celebrations, People for Bikes, Latin@ urbanism, Glendora Avenue, and much more this week.

• Monday 10/17 – The city of West Covina is holding its second community workshop for redesign for Glendora Avenue. The meeting takes place at 6 p.m. at the Cameron Park Community Center at 1305 East Cameron Avenue in West Covina. For details, see West Covina website.
• Monday-Friday 10/17-21 – As part of the Innovate L.A. festival, L.A. City Councilmember Curren Price and Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Innovation Team are hosting a series of fireside chat sessions on how to solve big, pressing problems in government and civic life. Each chat goes from 6 to 8 p.m. at the rooftop garden at the Council District 9 Constituent Services Center at 4301 S Central Avenue in South Los Angeles. For topics and further details see Innovate L.A. or Facebook event.
• Tuesday 10/18 – PeopleForBikes is launching a nationwide series of bike industry/community networking events with “DRAFT: A PeopleForBikes Meetup.” The event takes place at 6:30 p.m. at Pure Cycles at 713 N. Victory Boulevard in Burbank. It is free, but registration is requested via Eventbrite.
• Wednesday 10/19 – Metro will be celebrating the lowering of the Tunnel Boring Machine that will dig the downtown Regional Connector subway tunnels. There will be a TBM lowering and naming celebration in Little Tokyo at 9 a.m. Public attendance is limited, see last week’s DamienTalks interview for details.
• Wednesday, Thursday 10/19-20 – Metro committees meet to negotiate Board business in advance of next week’s full Board meeting. Meeting agendas and background at Metro website.
• Wednesday 10/19 – This is more-or-less in conjunction with the above Metro committee meetings, but the Metro Board of Directors is meeting to consider making the Silver Line all-door boarding permanent. This counts as a fare change, so it requires a board hearing in advance of approval. That public hearing takes place at 1 p.m. at the third floor Metro board room at One Gateway Plaza, behind Union Station in downtown L.A. See The Source for details.
• Thursday 10/20 and Sunday 10/23 – Volunteers are needed for the annual Long Beach bike count. See details at Bike Long Beach website.

Thursday 10/20 – The Cal Poly Pomona Departments of Urban and Regional Planning and Ethnic and Women’s Studies host a Symposium on Latina/o Urbanism from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at the College of Environmental Design, Building 7 atrium room at 3801 W Temple Avenue in Pomona. Details at Enacted Environment.

Did we miss anything? Is there something we should list on future calendars? Email joe [at] streetsblog.org.