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Senate Considering $10B for Highway Removal

By Kea Wilson | Jan 10, 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 Highway Teardowns Make Great Infrastructure (and Equity) Investments

By Kea Wilson | Dec 9, 2020 | No Comments

Progressive advocates are making the case that new infrastructure money would actually be best spent tearing urban highways down — and reinvesting in the Black and brown communities that those bad road projects tore apart decades ago.

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Is a Federal Greenway Act What the U.S. Needs to Recover from COVID-19?

By Kea Wilson | Sep 9, 2020 | No Comments

A new effort is underway to build a massive national network of connected walking and cycle infrastructure— and the organization behind it says a $10 billion federal investment in the project would help the country rebound from the economic ravages of COVID-19 in a way that highway spending never could.

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Op-Ed: Why Most Pedestrian Infrastructure Is Really for Drivers

By Joe Cortright | Sep 6, 2020 | No Comments

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on City Observatory and is republished with permission from the author. One of the biggest lies in transportation planning is calling something “multi-modal.” When somebody tells you a project is “multi-modal,” you can safely bet that its really for cars and trucks with some decorative frills appended for bikes […]

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Op-Ed: It’s Time to Prioritize the Third Lane

By Kea Wilson | Aug 14, 2020 | No Comments

"By eliminating car parking and narrowing automobile lanes we can create the space necessary to accommodate lightweight, human sized micromobility vehicles such as electric scooters."

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Op Ed: The Most Important Bike Tech is…Street Design

By Kea Wilson | Jul 22, 2020 | No Comments

New studies of Lisbon and Toronto offer the latest evidence for the power of safe infrastructure to encourage more cycling in cities — and speak to the perils of relying on historical data.

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