Kea Wilson
Recent Posts
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 might be safer.
Champs-Élysées Makeover Inspires U.S. Advocates to Push for Better City Arterials
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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.
Study: E-Taxis Increase 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.
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.
US DOT Secretary Elaine Chao Resigns
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The timing of 18th Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao's resignation reminds many advocates of her department's consistent complicity in perpetuating police brutality and white supremacy in America.
Georgia Senate Wins Put Major 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.
Goodbye to 2020, 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.
‘We Could Do Without Urban Planning’: Destiny Thomas on the 2021 Un-Urbanist Assembly
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"The truth is, we could do without urban planning. And if we did, that wouldn’t mean that no one would be thinking intentionally about how to make cities. The instrument, the arm, the machine [for] city-making — it's got to go."
Feds Hail Lower Road Deaths But Crashes, Injuries Increased
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Walking and cycling fatalities on U.S. roadways declined slightly in 2019 — but total crashes and injuries increased, according to just-released final federal numbers for last year.