SGV Connect 84 – El Monte Mutual Aid and Pop Up Lanes in Alhambra

Welcome back to the SGV Connect podcast. This week Damien talks with ActiveSGV about a pop-up bike lane in Alhambra, but first Kris checks in with some of the leaders of a mutual aid organization in El Monte.

Kris speaks with Araceli Franco and Nickolas Segura of Memories of El Monte, a mutual aid community space in El Monte. The space is volunteer-run by locals and natives of El Monte and offers activities like mental health and college planning workshops, and even hosts a food distribution.

Franco and Segura talk about the roots of the space, their personal connections to the area and how they hope the space can be a transformative and revolutionary space for change. For folks who have interest in hosting activities at the space, Memories of El Monte have a form folks can fill out.

Second, Damien talks with Francisco Ojeda with ActiveSGV about their pop up bike lane on Poplar Street in Alhambra. The half-mile project was on the ground for a couple of weeks, while ActiveSGV and the city collected resident and road user feedback in an online survey. Read more about the project at this article Kris wrote last month.

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