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SGV Connect 99 – Imperfect Paradise and Update from Sacramento
This week on SGV Connect features a special interview with Adolfo Guzman-Lopez and then a quarterly update with Melanie Curry of Streetsblog California.
July 25, 2022
Eyes on the Street: Reseda Blvd’s Under Construction Complete Streets Upgrades
The Reseda Boulevard Complete Streets Project includes three miles of continuous protected bike lanes - plus new ADA ramps, sidewalks, bus islands, lighting, trees, bioswales, left turn signals, and more
July 25, 2022
Eyes on the Street: 7th Street Curb-Protected Bike Lanes Under Construction
The under-construction $18.7 million 7th Street Streetscape project will include a curb-protected bikeway, expanded sidewalks, pedestrian/cyclist-scale lighting, bus islands, and new trees.
July 21, 2022
Metro’s 60 Freeway Ramps Expansion Project in Hacienda Heights Is on Hold
Metro deemed the Hacienda Heights SR-60/7th Avenue project beneficial to drivers and not too bad to adjacent residents, but if and when the project gets going, construction could come very close to homes.
July 19, 2022
Rail-to-Rail Bike/Walk Path Breaks Ground on Slauson
Construction was to have begun in 2018, but the community had been waiting for something to happen there for much longer than that.
July 14, 2022
CEO Wiggins Pledges to Restore Metro Ridership to Pre-COVID Levels by July 2023
Data shows Metro system struggling to restore service and build ridership
July 13, 2022
CicLAvia South L.A. Opens Western Avenue – Open Thread
CicLAvia's first event along South L.A.'s Western Avenue featured mayoral hopeful Karen Bass, City Councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson, and tens of thousands participants.
July 11, 2022
SGV Connect: Bike Shop Owner and Former Newspaper Publisher Carlos Morales
This week's SGV Connect features an interview with Carlos Morales of the Eastside Bike Club and Stan's Bike Shop. Chris Greenspon asks about Carlos' history as a carfree journalist and how bicycling saved his life.
July 7, 2022
Griffith Park Opens Newly Car-Free Street, More To Come
The April 16 death of cyclist Andrew Jelmert is spurring Griffith Park safety improvements, including a new three-quarter-mile car-free stretch of Griffith Park Drive
July 6, 2022
Streets For All Submits Over 100,000 Signatures for Healthy Streets L.A. Ballot Initiative
But in the past 24 hours, two things have happened that may finally force the city to live up to its ideals and promises to clean up and modernize its transportation infrastructure.
July 1, 2022