Kea Wilson
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Bird Hatches an Electric Moped — and Big Questions
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The shared scooter/bike giant is adding a new vehicle to its fleet, starting with Austin.
Streetsblog 101: How Media Help Build Car Culture
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Journalists reinforce anti-sustainable transportation sentiment in all kinds of ways — but they don't have to.
Burying Crumbling Urban Highways Isn't the Answer
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It's tunnel vision! Lawmakers in New York are looking to Seattle for advice on how to fix a crumbling highway — but the Emerald City's experiment with a highway tunnel is no model. Here's why.
Auto Right-of-Way Laws Are Where America Went Wrong
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Before the widespread adoption of the automobile, every road user had to think critically about whose turn it was to go — and a pedestrian in a car's path *always* meant the driver had to stand down.
The Broken Promises of the Rideshare Revolution
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Uber, Lyft and their brethren promised to revolutionize mobility forever. Instead, they just exaggerated the worst aspects of car culture.
Car Sticker Price Predicts Driver Rage Towards Walkers
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The more expensive the car, the less likely the driver is to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk. But why?
Streetsblog 101: Car Culture and Toxic Masculinity
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Our primer on how car ads created the very idea of macho — and why it's killing us.
Three Simple Ways to Make Cities More Walkable
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America doesn’t need an ambitious pedestrian safety target. We need seven of them.
Ten Simple Policies to Subtract Cars From Our Streets
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Want less road carnage? We need fewer cars on the roads. Here are some tools cities are already using (and should consider using) to save lives and reduce auto use.
Vision Zero is Missing Something: Reducing VMT
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A leading transportation researcher argues for the addition of a sixth pillar to the five-part strategy.
Auto Lenders Are Helping Fuel Pedestrian Death Crisis
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Americans are taking on more debt than ever at the car dealership — and the rise in risky auto lending has everything to do with our national rise in pedestrian fatalities. The total amount that Americans owe on their cars rose a shocking 75 percent from 2009 to today, according to a new report from […]
Peds Aren't Even Safe From Car Crashes Inside Buildings
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500 people die every year in *non*-roadway car crashes — because so many cars crash through building walls.