Kea Wilson
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These Post-Pandemic Traffic Models Are Pretty Scary
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Travel times will rise dramatically — and by as much as 24 minutes each way in New York! — if cities don't encourage residents to return public buses and trains and stay out of their cars when the coronavirus pandemic is over.
COVID-19 Hasn’t Cratered Bus Ridership — Which Creates a Huge Post-Crisis Challenge
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If people are taking buses, bus systems will need support for more rear-door boarding, protective gear for workers, cleanings, hazard pay, increased service to reduce crowding.
Vehicle Safety Standards Don’t Protect Pedestrians
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Federal regulators have failed to consider safety of pedestrians in their vehicle safety standards for far too long— and now the Government Accountability Office is calling them out.
Apple’s Misread of Walking Data Shows That We Really Don’t Know Much about Pedestrians
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The data we've got aren't painting the full picture — and we need more of it to help shape good policy.
Contest Needs You to Create Better Bike Lane Barriers
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We need something better than either bulky, expensive, and profoundly ugly concrete bollards, or shrimpy, plastic poles that drivers can plow straight over.
CAR ‘SIT-INS’? Drivers Are Drowning Out the Voices of the Most-Vulnerable During COVID-19
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The worst thing about the new wave of car "sit-ins" at state capitol buildings is not the cars (though they suck!). It's the feeling that the voices and needs of non-drivers will be ignored because they can't show up during a pandemic.
We Could Never Afford America’s Highways — Even Before COVID-19
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Our system of financing road repairs is broken.
Federal Corona Relief Bill Seems Generous To Transit. Don’t Be Fooled — It’s Not.
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The top 10 transit systems in America asked for $25 billion They got $10.5 billion. Do the math.
In Case You Didn’t Realize, But Here’s Why Trump’s Fuel-Economy Rollback is Terrible Policy
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The president's decision to relax crucial climate change and car-efficiency standards cannot be defended once all the facts are considered, as we do here.
Uber, Lyft Have Long Screwed Gig Workers with ‘Independent Contractor’ Scam — Now Taxpayers Provide the Bailout
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Taxi apps have a long history of denying workers basic protections. That's blowing up in all our faces right now.
Look How Well the Freight Industry Can Work When Cars are Banished from U.S. Highways!
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We don't need more roads. We just need cars off those roads so our delivery infrastructure can work.
Trump Says COVID-19 Deaths May Be the Price Pay For A Strong Economy — Just Like Traffic Deaths
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Deadly car crashes are not the price we must pay to sustain our civilization. Neither are coronavirus deaths.