Damien Newton
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SGV Connect 82 – With the 710 Tunnel Not Happening, Alhambra Prepares for the Future
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Kris interviews Alhambra Vice Mayor Jeff Maloney - about Advancing Alhambra. Folks interested in the project can attend a virtual meeting tomorrow night.
SGV Connect 81 – More on Caltrans Tenants and Changes Coming to ExpressLanes
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Damien talks with members of United Caltrans Tenants while Kris talks to Metro staff about ExpressLanes.
United Caltrans Tenants Oppose State Legislation That Would Guide Home Sales, Possibly Lead to Evictions
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"Unlike Caltrans, local governments have an interest in preventing evictions and making successful sales to tenants because these are their constituents," explains Timothy Ivison with UCT.
Bill to Decriminalize “Jaywalking” Sails Through Assembly Transportation Committee
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A.B. 1238 heads to the Assembly floor for final passage before heading to the State Senate.
SGV Connect 80 – Catching Up with Foothill Transit
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Welcome to the first SGV Connect of April. This week’s episode is a solo interview with Damien and Felicia Friesema at Foothill Transit. This is a regular check-in about the agency’s efforts to provide access to vaccinations, the rollout of its electric double-decker bus fleet, and how a transit agency can celebrate poetry month. If […]
SGV Connect 79 – Checking in on Altadena and the California Transportation Commission
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Kris talks with Altadena's Dorothy Wong and Damien interviews Streetsblog California's Melanie Curry.
Editorial: Metro Board Needs to Reject More Funding for Transit Police
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Don't settle for more punitive policing-as-usual. Don't waste any more time in making good on your promises to reform transit policing.
SGV Connect 78 – Bassett High School Stormwater Capture Project and Fareless Transit
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SGV Connect interviews: Dan Lafferty and Paul Alva of L.A. County Public Works about the rainwater capture project at Bassett High School in La Puente, and Diane Velez of Active SGV about Metro's proposed fareless transit initiative
SGV Connect 77 – More on Greenways and Micro-Transit in El Monte
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Interviews with Dan Lafferty with LA County Public Works about Greenway Planning and Metro's Rani Narula-Woods about Micro Transit.
Garcetti Funds Extension of Roomkey for 1,200 Rooms, but Council Wants City to Think Bigger
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Bonin: "They say where there's a will there's a way; In this case, there has to be a way." Raman: "We need to be ambitious; I've heard the word 'hundreds' but we need be hearing 'thousands' [of new rooms to be added to Roomkey]."
Garcetti Moves to Bring “Hundreds” of Unhoused into Project Roomkey with New Federal Funds
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What would you do if you had unlimited funds to run a program to provide housing to the unhoused during the pandemic?
SGV Connect: Alhambra Mayor Sasha Renée Pérez, and a 2021 Preview
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Welcome to the first SGV Connect Podcast of 2021. In this week's episode, Kris speaks with Alhambra Mayor Sasha Renée Pérez before Kris and Damien give a preview of what to look forward to in 2021.