Kea Wilson
Recent Posts
Explaining Houston’s Sky-High Roadway ‘Death-Goal’
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The Texas metropolis is a Vision Zero City. So why is its 2020 street fatality target HIGHER than last year's?
Apartments With Free Parking Reduce Transit Ridership
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But if you think that means increasing transit ridership in American cities will be as simple as taking away everyone's "free" residential parking to make driving less convenient, don't get too excited.
Few Car Buyers Consider Emissions At The Dealership
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So, yes, let's disincentivize the purchase of gas guzzlers — but let's also take back the transportation narrative once and for all.
State Capitals You Can’t Access Without A Car
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Why is it so hard to get to many state capitals without a car?
States Take Pass on Cutting Road Deaths
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Too many states don't even set a target of reducing road deaths — because the feds don't care.
Drivers Pay 4x More For Cell Phones Than Roads
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The average American spends over four times as much on their cell phone bill as they do on gas tax.
Car-Dependency Makes City Life Too Expensive
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If we truly want to reckon with our national poverty crisis, we have to make going car-lite or car-free a possibility for more people.
Philly Mayor Makes Big Bike and Transit Promises
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The City of Brotherly Love is one of America's most autocentric cities — so can Jim Kenney fix it?
Micromobility Companies Keep Losing Money
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Micromobility companies are struggling — but only because cities don't see them as providing a public service that deserves public investment.
Kea Wilson: The Making of an Advocate
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Streetsblog's newest editor joins us with an opening essay about her beginnings as a livable streets advocate.
How Cars Waste Space — In Six Simple Images
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Let's hope 2020 is the year when graphics like these finally fall out of date.
Buttigieg Plan: Vision Zero Plus Other Goodies
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Mayor Pete's transportation plan would create a national Vision Zero plan, charge drivers more for their use of the roads, build more public transit, and create "sustainable infrastructure" jobs — but it also has some proposals that might undermine all of it.