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Kea Wilson

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What the Prop. 22 Rollback Could Mean For Your State

By Kea Wilson | Aug 24, 2021 | No Comments
A California ruling that nullified e-taxi companies' ability to deny their workers basic employment protections is just the first step of a nationwide effort to undo such anti-labor laws.
A Tesla Model S following a 2016 crash. Source: NTSB via Flickr

Federal Investigation into Tesla Autopilot Defects Could Pull 765k Cars From U.S. Roads

By Kea Wilson | Aug 18, 2021 | No Comments
And some advocates are wondering whether there might be even more regulation for Elon Musk's brainchild on the horizon, if not the autonomous vehicle industry at large.
Image: Robert Couse-Baker, CC

Send Us Nominees For the Most Toxic Car Ad!

By Kea Wilson | Aug 17, 2021 | No Comments
Today, we're launching a contest to find the most worst of the bunch — and a starting conversation about the impact that auto advertising has on American culture, as well as our roads and streets.  
Image: Chris Yarzab, CC

Study: Success of Drunk Driving Laws is Limited … If Drivers Have No Alternatives

By Kea Wilson | Aug 17, 2021 | No Comments
Lowering the threshold for how much a driver can drink before he gets behind the wheel may not actually make our streets safer — at least if communities don’t provide people who imbibe other ways to get around besides driving, a new study suggests.
The Great Walkway from the air. Image: Great Highway Park on Instagram

Fight is On to Save Great Walkway

By Kea Wilson | Aug 13, 2021 | No Comments
San Francisco activists are fighting their city’s decision to allow high-speed vehicle traffic back onto a road that was transformed into a beloved public park during the pandemic — and the legal mechanism they’re using to do it could be a blueprint for advocates across the country fighting to keep their own COVID-era street improvements.
Advocates mourned a disappointing infrastructure bill that would put way more construction barriers on newly-expanded highways than barrier-protected bike lanes in cities and towns. Image: NC DOT, cc

‘Very Flawed’ Infrastructure Bill Passes Senate, Imperfect Reconciliation Bill Looms

By Kea Wilson | Aug 11, 2021 | No Comments
The massive infrastructure bill that passed the Senate on Tuesday won't meet the challenges of ending climate change and the U.S. traffic violence crisis, leaving core elements of those critical agendas up to a messy House debate, advocates said.
Mount Vernon Bike Path in Arlington, Va. Image: <a href=COVID may have sparked a bike boom across America, but in one city, the biggest and safest explosions specifically happened on paths protected from drivers — and U.S. communities should prioritize building more of them, even if the Delta variant doesn't send the U.S. back into lockdown soon, a new study suggests. Image: Walk Arlington

Study: Protected Bike Paths Saved Lives During COVID

By Kea Wilson | Aug 11, 2021 | No Comments
COVID sparked a bike boom across America, but a new study of one Virginia city shows that communities who prioritized building protected bike paths saved the most lives – and would have done so with or without the virus.
Image: PxFuel, CC

Biden’s Climate Vision is Too Focused on EVs — Again

By Kea Wilson | Aug 6, 2021 | No Comments
Automakers are lining up in support of new fuel economy standards that will speed the transition to electric vehicles — but only if Congress hands billions to Americans to buy their cars.
Joe Biden. Gage Skidmore, CC

Active Transportation Advocates See Silver Lining in Infrastructure Bill

By Kea Wilson | Aug 4, 2021 | No Comments
A handful of critical policy changes buried in the bipartisan infrastructure megabill may quietly revolutionize life for people who walk and roll through U.S. cities — especially if it's amended to include other progressive items a House bill.
The Manhattan Waterfront Greenway. Image: City Project, CC

REPORT: Federal Recreational Trails Program Underfunded by $200M+ Per Year

By Kea Wilson | Aug 3, 2021 | No Comments
Gas taxes on off-road recreational vehicles alone bring in three times more federal revenue than is spent building the trails themselves, a new federal study finds — and that’s before factoring in all the money that the users of non-gas-powered vehicles save highway agencies by opting not to drive.
Kansas City, Mo. clears the way for a freeway, 1957. Source: Source: Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library.

Visionary Highway Removal Program Axed from Fed Infrastructure Package

By Kea Wilson | Aug 2, 2021 | No Comments
Advocates are rallying to restore funding for a visionary highway removal program that was all but entirely removed during the bipartisan infrastructure negotiations.
Image: Paris Malone, CC

Infrastructure Deal ‘Worst Ratio for Transit Funding Since Nixon’

By Kea Wilson | Jul 30, 2021 | No Comments
Washington is one step closer to passing an infrastructure package that would provide historic funding for transit, and then immediately undercut it with historic funding for drivers.
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