Kea Wilson
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STUDY: New Bike Lanes Aren’t Associated With Displacement of BIPOC, Low-Income People
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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
REPORT: Here’s Where People of Color Can’t Access Opportunity Without A Car
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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.
Advocates Demand Better Car Safety Standards From Senate
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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.
Road Rage Shootings Are On a Terrifying Rise
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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
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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.
Advocates Overjoyed with New and Improved INVEST Act
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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.
Are Heavy EVs More Dangerous to U.S. Walkers?
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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.
The Sustainable Transport Advocate’s Cheat Sheet to Infrastructure Year
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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.
Regulators Aren’t Taming U.S. Megacar Crisis
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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.
STUDY: AV Taxis Would Speed Up Climate Change
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Autonomous vehicles may make our skies dirtier, even if they’re shared and electric, a new study finds.
These 15 Urban Highways Have Got to Go
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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.
Interview: Tammy Duckworth Insists Every U.S. Transit Station Must Be Accessible
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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.