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Biden Decries US DOT’s Destruction of Black Communities — But Will His Administration Make Reparations?

By Kea Wilson | Jan 28, 2021 | No Comments

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.

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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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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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Mexico’s ‘Right to Mobility’ Amendment Could Shift Road Safety Discourse and Save Thousands of Lives

By Kea Wilson | Nov 4, 2020 | No Comments

"As valuable as this step is, it is just one step. The work to translate this right to mobility from principle to action is the crucial next phase."

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STUDY: How Cars Are Making Us All Depressed (Even If We Don’t Drive)

By Kea Wilson | Oct 28, 2020 | No Comments

A new study shows that vehicle pollution may have more to do with our mental health than anyone realized.

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D.C. Shows What To Do When Your Vision Zero Plan Is Failing

By Kea Wilson | Sep 27, 2020 | No Comments

The nation's capital is failing to meet its Vision Zero goal — but it's not taking the loss lying down.

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