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Kea Wilson

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Stop the Spin: How to Spot Nine Types of Auto-Industry Disinformation

By Kea Wilson | Mar 13, 2023 | No Comments
Corporate disinformation has played a key role in creating America's deadly transportation culture — and it will keep happening until advocates learn to spot the most common forms of spin and organize against the policies they helped create.
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Dear 15-Minute Conspiracy Theorists: You Already Live in a Transportation Dystopia

By Kea Wilson | Mar 6, 2023 | No Comments
Right-wing conspiracy theorists have seized on the 15-minute city, where every resident can — gasp — safely and conveniently meet their basic needs without supporting a constellation of automotive interests along the way. Here's why they're wrong.
Graphic: Jose Carbajal
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French Warn Parents of an Underestimated Roadway Danger: Toxic Masculinity

By Kea Wilson | Feb 17, 2023 | No Comments
A new French safety campaign is warning parents that they may play a far bigger role in preventing car crashes than they might think — and that they can save lives by teaching their children about the dangers of toxic masculinity long before they ever get behind the wheel.
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Biden’s First ‘Mega Grants’ Contain Some Mega Wins — And Mega Fails

By Kea Wilson | Feb 6, 2023 | No Comments
A new federal "megagrant" program will fund major safety and transit projects that have been at the top of sustainable transportation advocates' wishlists for years ... along with business-as-usual highway expansion projects that could negate those mega-gains.
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Half of Americans Will Get Vision Zero Plans in New Federal Grant

By Kea Wilson | Feb 3, 2023 | No Comments
More than half of the U.S. population will soon live in cities or counties with a Safe Streets action plan in place, thanks to a wave of new funding from. Washington.
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Counter-Intuitive Department: Sometimes, Traffic Controls Make Streets More Dangerous

By Kea Wilson | Jan 19, 2023 | No Comments
Since the very first center line appeared on a Michigan road in 1911, many have questioned whether the design norms that govern U.S. roads really make them  "safe", or simply less dangerous than the anarchic days of early motordom — though still nowhere near as safe as the days before the car dominated American roads at all. Here's why. 
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Transport is the Leading Source of U.S. Emissions — Again

By Kea Wilson | Jan 13, 2023 | No Comments
America's transportation sector remains the leading national driver of the climate crisis — and automobile drivers aren't helping.
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Road Deaths Surged Alongside Covid — But Who Died, Exactly?

By Kea Wilson | Jan 10, 2023 | No Comments
The surge of traffic deaths in the first year of the pandemic can't be completely explained by quarantine-emptied roads that made speeding easy — and new data on who, exactly, was involved in those crashes may lead to more questions than answers.
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Federal Funding Bill Contains $45M for New Active Transportation Program

By Kea Wilson | Dec 22, 2022 | No Comments
That great news was soured slightly, though, by the very small dollar figure attached to it.
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What It Takes to Put a Seat At Every Bus Stop in Town

By Kea Wilson | Dec 21, 2022 | No Comments
"If there's one more senior who can choose to stay independent in my city because we provided a bus seat to them — because in the absence of that, they don't have mobility choices — I'm going to put a bus seat there. As unsexy as that may seem to some folks, that matters to me."
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Most Cities Can’t Set Their Own Speed Limits — But Maybe They Should

By Kea Wilson | Dec 20, 2022 | No Comments
Oregon may soon allow cities more leeway to set lower speed limits on dangerous roads — rather than reserving that power for state transportation leaders whose primary interest, historically, has been moving cars as quickly as possible.
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Opinion: What If We’re Thinking About Impaired Driving All Wrong?

By Kea Wilson | Dec 19, 2022 | No Comments
Let's pull back the cover on some seemingly shocking stats from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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