Kea Wilson
Recent Posts
Four Reasons to Hold Your Applause For Automakers’ Big EV Promises
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General Motors aims to manufacture only electric vehicles by 2035 — but advocates are skeptical that the move will have much of a climate impact without a slate of accompanying policy changes.
Federal Proposal Would Finally Allocate Transit Dollars to Bikeshare
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Bike- and scooter-share systems across the country may soon be eligible for the federal transit dollars, if advocates can finally succeed in getting a hard-fought bill through Congress.
Why America Can’t Rein in Teen Speeding
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Teenage driver crash rates are four times higher than drivers over 20. But some advocates think addressing the problem will take far more than the enforcement and education. Let's dig in.
Study: Taking An App Taxi More than Doubles Your Roadway Impact
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The average Uber or Lyft customer is responsible for adding more than twice as many car miles to his city's roads as he was before he started using app-taxis to get around.
Five Highlights from Pete Buttigieg’s Confirmation Hearing
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The Secretary of Transportation nominee, Pete Buttigieg, used his confirmation hearing to reaffirm his support for mass transit and complete streets.
Memo to Buttigieg: US DOT Needs an Active Transportation Administration
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Giving people who walk and roll a voice in Washington is a crucial tool in the fight to change the federal structures that underlie our car-only transportation landscape.
Joe Biden Becomes the First Traffic Violence Widower to Hold the U.S. Presidency
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Joe Biden is the first president in U.S. history who’s lost a child and a spouse to our national traffic violence epidemic.
Four Unanswered Questions about Biden’s Transportation Relief Plan
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Transit advocates are applauding President-elect Biden's COVID-19 relief plan, but wonder whether it will be enough to save the green modes that millions of Americans rely on.
Trump, Being Trump, Blames Everyone But Himself For the 2020 Crash Spike
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The Trump administration's top roadway safety agency offered a final kiss-off to America by blaming drivers for killing each other so much last year — with zero acknowledgement of the administration's own failures to implement life-saving policies.
Drivers Are Still Top Polluters, Even During Quarantine
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Not even months of quarantine orders that confined millions of Americans to their homes were enough to unseat passenger vehicle trips as the leading source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, a new study finds.
Study: E-Taxis Increase Private Car Ownership in Many Cities
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"Ride-hailing" apps once lauded for their potential to help end private car ownership are actually increasing it in many cities, a new study finds.
US DOT Secretary Elaine Chao Resigns
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The federal Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao has announced her resignation following a violent riot at the nation's capitol by predominantly white Trump supporters that went largely unchecked by law enforcement for hours, reminding many advocates of her department's consistent complicity in perpetuating police brutality and white supremacy in America.