Kea Wilson
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Five Questions About Biden’s Infrastructure Package
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President Biden revealed new details about his transformative new infrastructure package today, but sustainable transportation advocates are already questioning how much it will actually transform our national addiction to cars.
Advocates to Feds: We Need a New Traffic-Control Manual
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A coalition of leading transportation professionals is pushing for an overhaul of the manual that sets many of the most dangerous design guidelines for our car-focused roads — and rejecting a piecemeal public comment process that they say will only put a band-aids over the gaping wounds in our unsafe national transportation standards.
STUDY: Drivers Mostly Use Cruise Control to Speed
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"Cruise control" technology was invented to help drivers maintain a safe and steady speed — but more often, they use it to go faster than they would without it, a new study finds.
NBA Star Shawn Bradley Paralyzed in Crash
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Former Dallas Mavericks player Shawn Bradley announced today that he was struck by a driver while riding his bike, paralyzing the NBA star and reminding America that no one is safe from our national traffic violence epidemic until we commit to ending it.
This Year’s List of the Most Dangerous Cities for Walkers Is Unacceptably Familiar
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Every single state in America but one has gotten more dangerous for walkers in the last two years — and the only one that didn't only managed to maintain its abysmal rate of walking fatalities, rather than reducing it.
Send Us Your Nominees for the Sorriest Bus Stop!
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It's the return of our beloved contest — inspired by the NCAA's March Madness bracket!
New COVID Relief Bill Is a Strong Start To a Long Transit Recovery
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Congress is poised to give the transit industry its most significant lifeline yet in the pandemic, but it may still leave some cities struggling to make it for the long haul, advocates argue.
Buttigieg Says US DOT Should Support ‘Right-Sizing’ City Asphalt
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The 19th Secretary of Transportation may be the first in recent memory to publicly recognize that the need to remove excess asphalt from cities to meet our climate, safety and mobility justice goals.
No One’s Talking About the Best Thing About The New USPS Mail Truck
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If it looks like a duck ... it's probably a better-designed truck!
Why the New Mobility Revolution Leaves Seniors Behind
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Elders are being left out of the new mobility revolution — and will be more so by the time autonomous vehicles come around, a new study argues.
Amtrak Is Ready to Grow. Will it Finally Get the Subsidy It Deserves?
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Amtrak wants intercity rail take its rightful place as an essential component of our public transportation ecosystem, rather than quasi-private afterthought.
‘Land Bridge’ Seeks To Restore Minnesota Black Neighborhood
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Advocates from St. Paul, Minn. are hoping to restore some of what the Black community lost when a highway was run through their core neighborhood — and to provide an unconventional model for other communities across the country to do the same.