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SGV Connect #8 – Fare Thee Well
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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. About a week after his passing, I reached out to some friends with Bike SGV to […]
Rest in Peace, Brian Velez
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Earlier this week, our community lost a rising star and a great person when Brian Velez passed away peacefully in his sleep.
New PSA Puts Friendlier Foot…errr..Face on Vision Zero
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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. Yesterday, the City of […]
SGV Connect #6 – Early Return on the El Monte Bus Station’s New Parking Fees
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Metro is beginning to charge $2 for parking at its high-demand stations. Paid parking started this week at the El Monte Bus Station.
How Is This Happening?
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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 […]
SGV Connect 5 – Horse Riding in the San Gabriel Valley
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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. The first interview is with Alejandra from Avocado Heights. A horse owner, Alejandra tells stories and outlines the costs of […]
#DamienTalks: Nisei Week and #GoLittleTokyo
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DamienTalks with Midori Mizuhara with Community Arts Resources and Cory Hayashi with the Nisei Week Foundation about this year's Nisei Week festival, which begins at the end of next week.
SGV Connect 4 – Bike-Share Gets Its Tires Wet in Pasadena
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After watching bike-share systems come online in Los Angeles, West Hollywood, Santa Monica, and Long Beach, in July it was Pasadena’s turn to launch its own bike-share system. Shortly after the launch, the San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments (COG) earned a grant to expand bike-share to fourteen cities throughout the valley. Today, SGV Connect’s […]
SGV Connect #3: Check Out the Future Foothill Gold Line Stations
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Every now and then, one of our interviews turns up some breaking news. The six stations that will be part of the next Foothill Gold Line Extension will have 100 more spaces of parking for bicycles than the six stations opened last year. Much of that increased parking will be in the form of “bike […]
That’s Right. My Church Is Throwing a Family-Friendly Transit Party
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Tonight at five, St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church (11555 National Blvd, 90064) is throwing a transit-themed “First Friday Family Fun Night” featuring games, field trips on the Big Blue Bus, safety talks from Metro and the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition, and even a giant “Thomas the Train” set built by a former Streetsblog editor who […]
Venice NC Committee Calls for Data on, Not Termination of, Mar Vista Road Diet
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For those of us living near the Great Streets/Vision Zero pilot program in West Los Angeles, every day brings new developments in the back-and-forth between advocates for safe streets and advocates for car commuters frustrated by delay. The road diet turned a six-lane road with a bike lane and car parking into a two-lane road […]
This Week In Livable Streets
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With the holiday it’s a little lighter than usual for events. Be safe and have a great couple of days and we’ll be back on Wednesday. Tuesday 7/4 – Independence Day! Streetsblog will not be publishing. Wednesday 7/5 – Vision Zero L.A. is hosting a public hearing for input on proposed safety improvements fro Pico Blvd between Union […]