Damien Newton
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Damien is the executive director of the Southern California Streets Initiative which publishes Santa Monica Next, Streetsblog Los Angeles, Streetsblog San Francisco, Streetsblog California and Longbeachize.
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Riding Around the Airport with Santa Monica Spoke and Airport2Park
By design and by coincidence, it was a day of contrasts.On one hand, you have a group of roughly fifty advocates riding bicycles, many...
CEQA Reform Passes Senate for LOS, Basketball Team
Steinberg's hasty press conference after passage of SB 743Last night, both California's Senate and Assembly passed SB 743, Senator Darrell Steinberg's legislation that was...
CEQA Reforms Could Spell the End for LOS
(This article first appeared on Streetsblog Los Angeles.)Finally, some sanity may be coming to California's most important environmental protection law, the California Environmental Quality...
Video: Meet the Santa Monica Business That’s Going to Change the Way Cities Think About Bike Parking
Did you know Santa Monica has the largest bike parking facility of its kind in the country? The wildly popular Bike Center, with locations...
Big Blue Bus Survey Wants Your Help to Plan for Expo
Yesterday, we warned you that change is coming to Santa Monica. The good news is, it appears that the city's transit agency is readying...
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Kool Happenings: The Next Nuremberg
Last week, as part of a December-January movie-going binge,...
OPA Update 1/15/26: Congrats to the 2026 OPA Exec Board, Downtown Parking Rate Increase Paused, Grease Drive-In Movie at the Pier Tonight, & Other...
(Note: This newsletter was emailed by OPA yesterday, Thursday...
Hayden AI to Deploy on Parking Enforcement Vehicles for the First Time (Not Just Buses)
(Image: Santa Monica “yellow flag” bike lane violation (cars...
Registration Open for CalBike Summit April 22-24
Registration is now open for the 2026 California Bicycle...

