Today’s Headlines
Covid Spikes, Mask Mandates, Get Your Local COVID Coverage Hit and Run Driver Kills Podcast Host Matt George (LAT) Hit and Run Driver in Long Beach Injures Woman on Scooter (LB Post) Kenny Uong’s Transit Poem (Jimbo Times) Here’s Your Final List of Recall Candidates for Governor (LAT) Protected Bikeway Popup Coming Sunday on Roxbury … Continued
July 19, 2021
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June 29, 2021
SGV Connect 81 – More on Caltrans Tenants and Changes Coming to ExpressLanes
Damien talks with members of United Caltrans Tenants while Kris talks to Metro staff about ExpressLanes.
June 1, 2021
United Caltrans Tenants Oppose State Legislation That Would Guide Home Sales, Possibly Lead to Evictions
"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.
May 14, 2021
Bill to Decriminalize “Jaywalking” Sails Through Assembly Transportation Committee
A.B. 1238 heads to the Assembly floor for final passage before heading to the State Senate.
April 27, 2021
SGV Connect 80 – Catching Up with Foothill Transit
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.
April 22, 2021
SGV Connect 77 – More on Greenways and Micro-Transit in El Monte
Interviews with Dan Lafferty with LA County Public Works about Greenway Planning and Metro's Rani Narula-Woods about Micro Transit.
February 19, 2021
Garcetti Funds Extension of Roomkey for 1,200 Rooms, but Council Wants City to Think Bigger
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]."
February 11, 2021
Garcetti Moves to Bring “Hundreds” of Unhoused into Project Roomkey with New Federal Funds
What would you do if you had unlimited funds to run a program to provide housing to the unhoused during the pandemic?
February 4, 2021
