Damien Newton

SGVConnect speaks with Justine Garcia, Glendora transportation analyst, about how progressive planners working in small cities can make big changes

SGV Connect podcast interviews Doug Strange of the La Verne Bicycle Coalition

No - Bonin did not use Measure M funds for early 2017 road diets. No - Bonin did not thwart the will of the voters by taking transit and road money and spending it on safety.

SGV Connect talks with Roland Cordero of Foothill Transit to talk about the daily maintenance of the buses and Foothill Transit's Lost and Found

As many of you know, a couple of weeks ago our friend and my co-host Brian Velez passed away peacefully in his sleep. Brian was a great partner in this venture and I miss him both personally and professionally.

Earlier this week, our community lost a rising star and a great person when Brian Velez passed away peacefully in his sleep.

It's been a rough ride for advocates' of safe streets the past six months. From the blowback on Vision Zero road redesigns on the Westside, to the politicization of road diets from conservative talk radio hosts demonizing anyone who dares suggest that maybe our transportation system needs to be made safer.

Metro is beginning to charge $2 for parking at its high-demand stations. Paid parking started this week at the El Monte Bus Station.

A couple of weeks ago, I was visiting the Mar Vista Farmer's Market with my seven-year-old son. Seeing a group gathering petitions for Restore Venice Boulevard's demands that the road diet on Venice Boulevard be immediately ended, I turned off to go in through the side. Earlier in the week, a tweet condemning the person who wrote the weird, racist flyer that was the last straw for a friend and neighborhood councilmember was misinterpreted as being a condemnation of everyone who opposed the road diet. I'm sure I phrased it poorly, but my attempts to clarify had fallen on deaf ears. A lot of people involved in the Restore Venice Boulevard Movement were convinced I, a Board Member of the Mar Vista Neighborhood Council, had called them all assholes.

This week, Brian Velez talks to a pair of equestrians in the San Gabriel Valley about their experiences, challenges and all of the reasons to choose riding a horse as their preferred form of transportation.