Kea Wilson
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Why America Can’t Rein in Teen Speeding
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Teenage driver crash rates are four times higher than drivers over 20. But some advocates think addressing the problem will take far more than the enforcement and education. Let's dig in.
Biden Decries US DOT’s Destruction of Black Communities — But Will His Administration Make Reparations?
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President Biden won points among some antiracist transportation advocates for calling out federal highway projects for destroying Black communities – and then lost points by failing to call for the USDOT itself to make reparations to the people it has harmed.
Can An Automaker Help Your City Design a Better Intersection?
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A potentially groundbreaking new tool could help give US planners key insights into the most dangerous segments of their road network – and how to fix them – with the click of a single button. The only problem? An automaker made it.
What the History of Autonomous Vehicles Can Teach About Our Transportation Future
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Alex Davies new book, "Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car," offers a glimpse into an industry that will rapidly upend our transportation landscape – and some worry will kill even more vulnerable road users.
Five Highlights from Pete Buttigieg’s Confirmation Hearing
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The Secretary of Transportation nominee, Pete Buttigieg, used his confirmation hearing to reaffirm his support for mass transit and complete streets.
Memo to Buttigieg: USDOT Needs an Active Transportation Administration
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Giving people who walk and roll a voice in Washington is a crucial tool in the fight to change the federal structures that underlie our car-only transportation landscape.
Joe Biden Becomes the First Traffic Violence Widower to Hold the U.S. Presidency
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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.
Four Unanswered Questions about Biden’s Transportation Relief Plan
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Transit advocates are applauding President-elect Biden's COVID-19 relief plan, but wonder whether it will be enough to save the green modes that millions of Americans rely on.
NHTSA Blames Everyone But Itself For Crash Spike
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The Trump administration's top roadway safety agency offered a final kiss-off to America by blaming drivers for killing each other so much last year – with zero acknowledgement of the administration's own failures to implement life-saving policies.
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.
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.
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.