Damien Newton
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SGV Connect 80 – Catching Up with Foothill Transit
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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.
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.
Open Thread: What Happens to Streets Post-Pandemic?
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Does your city have a plan for streets when the pandemic ends?
CA High Speed Rail Releases March Update: Lots of Video of Bridges and Future Rail
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Sometimes it’s easy to forget that the California High Speed Rail Authority (CAHSRA) is currently building over 100 miles of high speed rail in the Central Valley and all of the large projects, including viaducts, animal crossings, and overpasses, that go along with it. To date, the project has created more than 5,500 construction jobs […]
Downtown San Diego Opens First Block of 14th Street Neighborhood Greenway
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The 14th Street Greenway Project will extend 11 blocks from C Street to Commercial Street. Five other greenways will be located along Eighth Avenue, Cedar Street, E Street, Island Avenue and Union Street.
VTA Leaders Express Doubts about Legislation That Would Change Board Makeup
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Critics are emerging of AB 1091, Asm. Marc Berman's bill that would remake the VTA Board
State Legislation Would Reshape VTA Board
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New legislation would shake up the VTA board. But would service actually improve?
SBSF Interview : SPUR’S Nick Josefowitz on the First Steps for New Mega Measure
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Josefowitz : We can’t expect to put a regional measure on the ballot of the scale that was contemplated with Faster without confronting some of the governance challenges we have now.
LA Mayor Approves Extension of Roomkey, but Council Says “Go Bigger”
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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]."
L.A. Mayor Garcetti to Bring “Hundreds” of Unhoused into Project Roomkey with New Federal Funds
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What would you do if you had unlimited funds to run a program to provide housing to the unhoused during the pandemic?
SGV Connect: Alhambra Mayor Sasha Renée Pérez, and a 2021 Preview
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Welcome to the first SGV Connect Podcast of 2021. In this week's episode, Kris speaks with Alhambra Mayor Sasha Renée Pérez before Kris and Damien give a preview of what to look forward to in 2021.
EOY Update: We Made Our Fundraising Goal. Thank You!
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