Kea Wilson
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Agencies Plan Equitable COVID Recovery
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A staggering 88 percent of U.S. transit agencies expect that historically disenfranchised riders will be their primary customers as they recover from the pandemic, a new study finds.
Better Bike Policy Could Prevent 15K U.S. Deaths a Year
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If U.S. cities take aggressive but realistic action to replace car trips with bike trips by 2050, they could prevent more than 15,000 premature deaths every year, a new study finds — and not just in traffic crashes.
Weaning Americans Off Cars With E-Mopeds
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Electric moped sharing became one of the most rapidly growing alternatives to driving in cities around the world during 2021 — but America lags behind, mostly because our roads are too dangerous.
There’s a Better Way To Address Rising Gas Prices
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Sustainable transportation advocates are sending a clear message to Washington: the best way to address rising gas prices is to cut oil demand, not increase supply.
Advocates Hope Grants Are a Taste of Things To Come
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Last Friday, the U.S. DOT wowed sustainable transportation advocates with its list of grantees for the RAISE discretionary grant program (previously known as the BUILD program, and TIGER before that), which will funnel $1 billion dollars into transportation capital and planning projects across America — and stoked optimism for how the agency would spend the historic $100 billion in discretionary funding it just won with the passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
And America’s Most Toxic Car Ad Is…
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... Chevrolet's 2015 ad for its Colorado pickup truck!
Almost No One in Congress Has Signed Onto National ‘Vision Zero’ Pledge
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"Honestly, this should be an easy first step," said one activist.
Shoup Reflects on America’s Parking Failure
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"There are so many ways in which we’d be better off if we reformed our parking policy: reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, nitrous oxide emissions, particulate pollution, traffic crashes. Urban planners have made epic mistakes in almost all of their parking policies. But now they can fix it."
Dear Joe: The Electric Hummer is Not the Future
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An open letter to the American president that his constant cheerleading for electric mega-cars is not only a bad look, but bad policy.
Four Ways That ‘Automobility’ Shapes Our Lives
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The violence of car culture extends far beyond the obvious outrages of car crashes, pollution, destroyed communities and structural racism, a fascinating new paper argues.
Report: Climate Goals Impossible Unless Sustainable Transport Claims 40 Percent of Mode Share
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City residents must massively increase the percentage of journeys they take on public transportation and using active modes within 10 years if the world is going to meet its climate targets, a new report argues — but federal governments aren't stepping up to make it happen.
America’s Most Toxic Car Ad: The Finals!
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After thousands of votes and enough eerily empty downtowns to last a life time, Streetsblog readers have narrowed it down to just two of the most toxic car ads in our national history. Vote now for which deserves the title of the most toxic of all.