Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Community, Advocacy and Labor

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.

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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

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.

One of San Jose's new bike lanes last February, 2020. Quick build projects such as this may be the key to convincing people they don't always need a car. Photo: Streetsblog/Rudick

SPUR San Jose: Vision Zero Progress and Challenges

By Melanie Curry | Feb 28, 2020 | No Comments

Adopting a Vision Zero policy is only the first step. San Jose is only now embarking on investing in infrastructure, data, and collaboration to reach the goals of no traffic fatalities.

An example of what Caltrans considers bike infrastructure. Photo: Streetsblog/Rudick

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Whoop-De-Doo Paint Added to Oakland Hellscape

By Roger Rudick | Aug 14, 2019 | 2 Comments

Streetsblog receives a matrix of responses to its critique of the 23rd and 29th Avenue over-crossings in Oakland

'Proxy' in Hayes Valley is a great example of vacant lots going to good interim uses (such as dancing). Photo: David Baker Architects

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SPUR Talk: Enlivening Spaces in the Interim

By Roger Rudick | Sep 7, 2017 | No Comments

“Why wait five or six years before doing anything with the space?” was the question Brad Leibin, an‎ architect at David Baker Architects, was asked to help solve about an affordable housing project planned for West Oakland’s San Pablo Avenue at 34th Street. “So we started to make a difference on that streets-cape immediately … […]

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