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Damien Newton

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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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Building a Better “Faster Bay Area” w/ Jeffrey Buchanan

By Damien Newton | Jul 20, 2020 | No Comments
Policy Director of Working Partnerships Discusses What Can Be Done Now to Build a Great Ballot Measure
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Building a Better “Faster Bay Area” w/ Steven Higashide

By Damien Newton | Jul 2, 2020 | No Comments
It's also important to marry some of the resources that business groups can provide with organizing and leadership from groups that are led by people of color, groups that are organizing transit riders.
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Open Thread: Muni Approves a Handful of Temporary Bus-Only Lanes

By Damien Newton | Jul 1, 2020 | No Comments
The transit lanes would be installed in late summer and striped only with white paint, “Bus/Taxi Only” stenciling and signage.
Berkeley PD ticket a bicyclist on Milvia. Photo by Liza Lutzker

Defunding the Police: Berkeley Considers Shifting Traffic Enforcement to a New DOT

By Damien Newton | Jun 30, 2020 | No Comments
The legislation, entitled "BerkDOT: Reimagining Transportation for a Racially Just Future" creates a new city Department of Transportation that will be responsible for traffic stops, ticketing, and parking enforcement.
Caltrain will get its first electric trains soon. But it may not have the cash to run them. Image: Calmod
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Touting Positive Polling, Caltrain Prepares for Sales Tax Push

By Damien Newton | Jun 29, 2020 | No Comments
Note: GJEL Accident Attorneys regularly sponsors coverage on Streetsblog San Francisco and Streetsblog California. Unless noted in the story, GJEL Accident Attorneys is not consulted for the content or editorial direction of the sponsored content. It’s no secret that transit agencies have been hit hard by the COVID-19 slowdown. But even as Caltrain warns that crippling cuts […]
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Homeless Count 2020: Depressing but Not Surprising Rise in Number of Homeless

By Damien Newton | Jun 15, 2020 | No Comments
Housing Authority blames racism, lack of affordable housing
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Don’t Blame Protestors if COVID-19 Cases Spike

By Damien Newton | Jun 10, 2020 | No Comments
Don't fall for it. Don't blame the protestors. Don't blame Black Lives Matter.
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