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Kea Wilson

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Joe Biden Becomes the First Traffic Violence Widower to Hold the U.S. Presidency

By Kea Wilson | Jan 21, 2021 | No Comments
Joe Biden is president — the first one in U.S. history who's lost a child and a spouse to our national traffic violence epidemic. 
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Drivers Are Still Top Polluters, Even During Quarantine

By Kea Wilson | Jan 14, 2021 | No Comments
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.
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Champs-Élysées Makeover Inspires U.S. Advocates To Push for Better City Arterials

By Kea Wilson | Jan 12, 2021 | No Comments
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.
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Senate Considering $10B for Highway Removal

By Kea Wilson | Jan 11, 2021 | No Comments
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.
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Why Sustainable Transportation Advocates Need to Talk About Seating

By Kea Wilson | Jan 7, 2021 | No Comments
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.
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US DOT Secretary Elaine Chao Resigns

By Kea Wilson | Jan 7, 2021 | No Comments
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. 
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Virginia Policy Could End Jaywalking Stops

By Kea Wilson | Jan 6, 2021 | No Comments
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.
Black LIves Matter Plaza, created by the Government of the District of Columbia, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. Photo: Ted Eytan via Creative Commons
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Goodbye to 2020, a Truly Unimaginable Year for Sustainable Transportation

By Kea Wilson | Jan 5, 2021 | No Comments
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.
Destiny Thomas. Image courtesy Thrivance Group
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‘We Could Do Without Urban Planning’: Destiny Thomas on the 2021 Un-Urbanist Assembly

By Kea Wilson | Dec 22, 2020 | No Comments
"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."
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Feds Hail Lower Road Deaths But Crashes, Injuries Increased

By Kea Wilson | Dec 21, 2020 | No Comments
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.
Jennifer Granholm, left, and Gina McCarthy, right. Images via Creative Commons
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What Biden’s Other Cabinet Picks Might Mean For Sustainable Transportation

By Kea Wilson | Dec 17, 2020 | No Comments
Pete Buttigieg drew most of the attention earlier this week, but two other key cabinet appointments this week could signal that electric vehicles remain at the center of the President-elect's climate strategy — despite evidence that transit, walking and biking is far more critical to cutting greenhouse gases. 
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New COVID-19 Relief Bill Starves Transit — Again

By Kea Wilson | Dec 16, 2020 | No Comments
But it's better than nothing at all.
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