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Kea Wilson

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A ghost bike memorializes Richard Stanley Archer, killed by a hit-and-run motorist on Commonwealth Avenue in April 2017.
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Protecting Non-Motorists Makes NTSB ‘Most Wanted List’ For the First Time

By Kea Wilson | Apr 7, 2021 | No Comments
For the first time in its 54 year history, the transportation sector's most influential investigative agency wants America to focus on protecting vulnerable road users. What took so long?
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Oregon Advocates Sue to Stop Racist Portland Highway Expansion

By Kea Wilson | Apr 6, 2021 | No Comments
Advocates in Portland, Ore. have sued to stop the expansion of an urban renewal era highway project — and possibly writing the next page in the playbook for fighting bad urban freeway redesigns across the U.S.
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Why The U.S. Needs a Bold 2030 Mode Shift Target

By Kea Wilson | Mar 30, 2021 | No Comments
America needs to commit to transportation policies that will at least double the number of people who travel by foot, bike or transit by 2030, a leading advocacy group argues.
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Advocates to Feds: We Need a New Traffic-Control Manual

By Kea Wilson | Mar 24, 2021 | No Comments
A coalition of leading transportation professionals is pushing for an overhaul of the manual that sets many of the most dangerous design guidelines for our car-focused roads — and rejecting a piecemeal public comment process that they say will only put a band-aids over the gaping wounds in our unsafe national transportation standards. 
Courtesy of the United States Postal Service.
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New USPS Van Is A Case Study In How Much Safer Trucks Could Be

By Kea Wilson | Mar 2, 2021 | No Comments
A wrecked pickup truck rests in the median of Route 1 in Lynnfeild following a police chase in November 2020. Photo courtesy of the Massachusetts State Police.
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Bloated Truck Designs Lead to More Women Dying in Crashes

By Kea Wilson | Feb 16, 2021 | No Comments
Women drivers are more likely to die in crashes because the male drivers who hit them are more likely to be driving trucks and SUVs, a new study finds.
A view of the Allston I-90 tollbooths and Beacon Yards in 2015. Photo by Nick Allen, licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0.
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Senate Considering $10B for Highway Teardowns

By Kea Wilson | Jan 11, 2021 | No Comments
The Restoring Neighborhoods and Strengthening Communities Program — known among advocates as the “Highways to Boulevards” initiative — would be available for projects located in regions with a high concentration of low income residents or residents of color.
Parking lot. Courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Could Flipping Parking Lots Help End Car Dependence?

By Kea Wilson | Dec 15, 2020 | No Comments
Miami-based startup REEF Technology made headlines last month when it raised $700 million to buy up parking lots and rapidly transform them into a range of more profitable uses.
A view of the Allston I-90 tollbooths and Beacon Yards in 2015. Photo by Nick Allen, licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0.
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Highway Teardowns Make Great Investments

By Kea Wilson | Dec 10, 2020 | No Comments
In a groundbreaking new policy proposal, nonprofits Transportation for America and Third Way recommended that the next administration create a new, $5-billion competitive grant program that states could draw on to tear down their misguided downtown highways and redevelop the land that’s left behind in better ways.
StreetsblogUSA editor Kea Wilson with her electric pedal-assist cargo bike.
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How A Cargo Bike Quashed My Car Habit

By Kea Wilson | Dec 1, 2020 | No Comments
A Capital Metro commuter train in downtown Austin.
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In Austin, An Effort to Expand Transit Without Igniting Gentrification

By Kea Wilson | Nov 1, 2020 | No Comments
An MBTA bus, heading to bed at a reasonable hour. Photo by Osman Rana.
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Study: Transit Is Failing Non-White Night Shift Workers

By Kea Wilson | Oct 9, 2020 | No Comments
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