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Kea Wilson

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STUDY: New Bike Lanes Aren’t Associated With Displacement of BIPOC, Low-Income People

By Kea Wilson | Jun 22, 2021 | No Comments
The installation of new protected infrastructure for bicyclists does not cause the displacement of people of color or of low-income residents of U.S. cities, a new study finds
BART

REPORT: Here’s Where People of Color Can’t Access Opportunity Without A Car

By Kea Wilson | Jun 17, 2021 | No Comments
Transit agencies across America cut service in the wake of the COVID-19 lockdowns, but even though many of those routes have since been restored, not everyone got the ride back.
A major safety bill moving through the senate right now would mandate the installation of automatic emergency braking system on big rigs, but not on smaller box trucks like these — much less light trucks and cars. And Sens. Richard Blumenthal (left) and Ed Markey are upset. Image: Penske via CC

Advocates Demand Better Car Safety Standards From Senate

By Kea Wilson | Jun 16, 2021 | No Comments
The next baseline infrastructure bill can no longer ignore the need for common-sense vehicle safety improvements that save vulnerable road users’ lives, a coalition of advocates and lawmakers said on Tuesday.
Image: gmsjs90 via Pixabay, CC

Road Rage Shootings Are On a Terrifying Rise

By Kea Wilson | Jun 15, 2021 | No Comments
Aggressive driving isn’t the only deadly behavior on the rise on American roads — because raging motorists are killing more people with guns than any point in recent history, too.

Active Transportation Big in ‘INVEST’ Earmarks

By Kea Wilson | Jun 14, 2021 | No Comments
An unprecedented number of infrastructure projects earmarked in the House infrastructure bill would serve pedestrians, micromobility riders, and people who use assistive devices, on top of the robust increases in core programs that already fund infrastructure for those modes.  
Milpitas BART, under construction. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Advocates Overjoyed with New and Improved INVEST Act

By Kea Wilson | Jun 11, 2021 | No Comments
A once-divisive baseline infrastructure bill is quickly transforming into the game-changing legislation America needs to shift the country away from car dominance, many advocates say.
An electric Hummer may be even more likely to kill you than a regular one. Via Car and Driver.

Are Heavy EVs More Dangerous to U.S. Walkers?

By Kea Wilson | Jun 9, 2021 | No Comments
A whole lot of heavy electric cars are likely to roll onto U.S. streets soon — but the U.S. hasn’t bothered to answer the question of how fatal they’ll be to pedestrians in the event of a crash.
Image: Gage Skidmore via Creative Commons

The Sustainable Transport Advocate’s Cheat Sheet to Infrastructure Year

By Kea Wilson | Jun 7, 2021 | No Comments
Washington is in the thick of negotiating two major infrastructure bills that could reshape American transportation for decades. Here's a primer you can come back to again and again.
Image: Screenshot from KMPH

Regulators Aren’t Taming U.S. Megacar Crisis

By Kea Wilson | Jun 4, 2021 | No Comments
Federal regulators have known about the inherent dangers that large vehicles pose to vulnerable road users since the mid-1970s, but have done almost nothing to stop it — and probably won’t until America fundamentally reorients the mission of its top safety agency to put transportation justice, and not consumer protection, first, a new legal research paper argues.
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STUDY: AV Taxis Would Speed Up Climate Change

By Kea Wilson | Jun 4, 2021 | No Comments
Autonomous vehicles may make our skies dirtier, even if they’re shared and electric, a new study finds.
San Francisco's Great Highway after it was given the "freeways to boulevard" treatment in April, 2020. Photo: Matt Brezina's twitter

These 15 Urban Highways Have Got to Go

By Kea Wilson | Jun 2, 2021 | No Comments
A leading advocacy group is calling for the removal of 15 urban highways built on land from which millions of Black, Latinx and indigenous residents were forcibly displaced — land that includes the site of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, which displaced thousands of Black Oklahomans just decades before a highway destroyed the community all over again.
Senator Tammy Duckworth. Source: Wikimedia Commons

Interview: Tammy Duckworth Insists Every U.S. Transit Station Must Be Accessible

By Kea Wilson | May 21, 2021 | No Comments
A groundbreaking bill would help make every transit station in America accessible to those with disabilities — and stop critical accessibility improvements from being put off.
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