Kea Wilson
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Four Unanswered Questions about Biden’s Transportation Relief Plan
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Transit advocates are applauding President-elect Biden's COVID-19 relief plan, but wonder whether it will be enough to save the green modes that millions of Americans rely on.
NHTSA Blames Everyone But Itself For Crash Spike
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The Trump administration's top roadway safety agency offered a final kiss-off to America by blaming drivers for killing each other so much last year — with zero acknowledgement of the administration's own failures to implement life-saving policies.
Drivers Are Still Top Polluters, Even During Quarantine
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Not even months of quarantine orders that confined millions of Americans to their homes were enough to unseat passenger vehicle trips as the leading source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, a new study finds.
Could Augmented Reality Windshields End Distracted Driving?
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If a new style of head-up design works as designed, cars will be safer.
Champs-Élysées Makeover Inspires U.S. Advocates
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As Parisians celebrate a new plan to pedestrianize the Champs-Élysées and cut car traffic in half, Americans street safety advocates demand redesigns for their own cities' dangerous downtown arteries.
Senate Considering $10B for Highway Removal
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Cities might soon get the kind of federal money they need to tear down the downtown highways that federal dollars paid them to build — and to reinvest in communities of color that those highways destroyed.
E-Taxis Raise Private Car Ownership in Many Cities
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"Ride-hailing" apps once lauded for their potential to help end private car ownership are actually increasing it in many cities, a new study finds.
US DOT Secretary Elaine Chao Resigns
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The 18th Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao has announced her resignation following a violent riot at the nation's capitol by predominantly white Trump supporters that went largely unchecked by law enforcement for hours, reminding many advocates of her department's consistent complicity in perpetuating police brutality and white supremacy in America.
Why Sustainable Transportation Advocates Need to Talk About Seating
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When we talk about increasing access to sustainable transportation, many street safety advocates fail to talk about placing benches with anywhere near the fervor with which we talk laying train track or building bike lanes. That needs to change.
Senate Wins Put Transportation Reform Within Reach
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Democrats reclaiming majority control of the Senate creates a path to a green infrastructure bill that has eluded sustainable transportation advocates for decades.
Virginia Policy Could End Jaywalking Stops
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A new Virginia law will prohibit police from utilizing one of the most outrageous pretexts to harass people of color: walking in the street outside of a designated crosswalk.
A Truly Unimaginable Year for Sustainable Transportation
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What a crazy year — but if we take a moment to look back and think about all that happened in 2020, we might find ourselves finally ready to seize the sustainable transportation future.