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Damien Newton

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SBSF Interview : SPUR’S Nick Josefowitz on the First Steps for New Mega Measure

By Damien Newton | Feb 19, 2021 | No Comments
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.
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L.A.’s Ambitious Homeless Program

By Damien Newton | Feb 12, 2021 | No Comments
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]."
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Thank You Bay Area!

By Damien Newton | Jan 11, 2021 | No Comments
Over the weekend, we received word that the craigslist Charitable Fund had awarded Streetsblog SF a $25,000 grant to help with 2021, raising our total for the drive to $45,685. While this is just under our goal, it's enough to assure that Streetsblog San Francisco will continue to publish for all of 2021 assuming our advertising income remains steady.
Griffiths riding transit in the "before times" Photo: Seamless Bay Area

Building a Better Regional Ballot Measure w/ Seamless Bay Area’s Ian Griffiths

By Damien Newton | Dec 16, 2020 | No Comments
As we prepare to bid goodbye to 2020, Streetsblog SF continues its interview series with local and national experts to lay the groundwork for the best possible transit mega-measure for 2022
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Help Streetsblog and Make the Bay Area a More Livable City in 2021

By Damien Newton and Streetsblog Editors | Dec 3, 2020 | No Comments
If you value the solutions journalism that helped save Caltrain, protected bike shops during stay at home orders and fights for Dutch-style progressive transportation projects to make the city safer, than there is no better way to help than by supporting Streetsblog today.
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Streetsblog Needs Your Help

By Damien Newton | Dec 1, 2020 | No Comments
We know 2020 was not the year we hoped, but help us stay strong for a better 2021.
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Lessons from Measure RR for a 2022 Regional Ballot Measure

By Damien Newton | Nov 23, 2020 | No Comments
"So, the lessons from Measure RR are that public agency led vision and outreach, multiple stakeholders working together with a public owner and broad coalition working to get the measure passed are going to work best to get measures passed."
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Announcing the 2020 Streetsie Award Winners

By Damien Newton | Nov 2, 2020 | No Comments
People Protected, Scraper Bikes, Oakland DOT's Slow Streets Team and San Jose Bike Plan Team
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Listening to Voices for Public Transportation: Work Now to Build a Better Ballot Initiative for 2022

By Damien Newton | Oct 2, 2020 | No Comments
The Voices for Public Transportation Coalition is looking at where we are and seeing three phases for transit.
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Streetsblog California Endorses Measure RR

By Damien Newton | Sep 30, 2020 | No Comments
Streetsblog California joins the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Jose Mercury-News, Seamless Bay Area, the Greenbelt Alliance, Streetsblog San Francisco and many other groups representing transit riders, environmentalists and Bay Area residents to support the measure.
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Building a Better “Faster Bay Area” w/ Margarita Parra Cobaleda and Shiloh Ballard

By Damien Newton | Aug 21, 2020 | No Comments
We close out the series with a dual interview with Shiloh Ballard, the executive director of the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition, and Margarita Parra Cobaleda, a director with I ebike and board member of SVBC.
In 2012, Harris took the stage at the DNC Convention. She also sued SANDAG to force better regional planning in California.
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As California AG, Kamala Harris Took a Political Risk to Fight Climate Change

By Damien Newton | Aug 13, 2020 | No Comments
When much of the establishment was praising a flawed Long Range Plan for San Diego, Harris joined local enviros to take SANDAG to court
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