Damien Newton
Recent Posts
Legislative Update: Here’s What Bills Are Still Alive in the Senate and Assembly
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Is your favorite, or least favorite, piece of legislation still alive?
This Week In Livable Streets
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Metro board meeting, Caltrans Active Transportation Plan, L.A. bus stops, Beverly Hills bike lanes, and more
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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.