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Kea Wilson

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What we get when we subsidize cars: More of them.
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These Post-Pandemic Traffic Models Are Pretty Scary

By Kea Wilson | May 5, 2020 | No Comments
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.
Local buses like this one have been made fare-free during the crisis. Let's keep them that way, an activist argues. Photo: 
ShaneAkACaitSith810 via Youtube
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COVID-19 Hasn’t Cratered Bus Ridership — Which Creates a Huge Post-Crisis Challenge

By Kea Wilson | Apr 30, 2020 | No Comments
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.
Vision Zero ain't done. File photo: Julianne Cuba
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Vehicle Safety Standards Don’t Protect Pedestrians

By Kea Wilson | Apr 28, 2020 | No Comments
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.
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Apple’s Misread of Walking Data Shows That We Really Don’t Know Much about Pedestrians

By Kea Wilson | Apr 28, 2020 | No Comments
The data we've got aren't painting the full picture — and we need more of it to help shape good policy.
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Contest Needs You to Create Better Bike Lane Barriers

By Kea Wilson | Apr 23, 2020 | No Comments
We need something better than either bulky, expensive, and profoundly ugly concrete bollards, or shrimpy, plastic poles that drivers can plow straight over.
Michigan, 2020.

CAR ‘SIT-INS’? Drivers Are Drowning Out the Voices of the Most-Vulnerable During COVID-19

By Kea Wilson | Apr 17, 2020 | No Comments
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.
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We Could Never Afford America’s Highways — Even Before COVID-19

By Kea Wilson | Apr 13, 2020 | No Comments
Our system of financing road repairs is broken.
Yes, it's sometimes crowded, but the subway is the solution.
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Federal Corona Relief Bill Seems Generous To Transit. Don’t Be Fooled — It’s Not.

By Kea Wilson | Apr 8, 2020 | No Comments
The top 10 transit systems in America asked for $25 billion They got $10.5 billion. Do the math.
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In Case You Didn’t Realize, But Here’s Why Trump’s Fuel-Economy Rollback is Terrible Policy

By Kea Wilson | Apr 2, 2020 | No Comments
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.
Photo via The New School
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Uber, Lyft Have Long Screwed Gig Workers with ‘Independent Contractor’ Scam — Now Taxpayers Provide the Bailout

By Kea Wilson | Mar 26, 2020 | No Comments
Taxi apps have a long history of denying workers basic protections. That's blowing up in all our faces right now.
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Look How Well the Freight Industry Can Work When Cars are Banished from U.S. Highways!

By Kea Wilson | Mar 25, 2020 | No Comments
We don't need more roads. We just need cars off those roads so our delivery infrastructure can work.
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Trump Says COVID-19 Deaths May Be the Price Pay For A Strong Economy — Just Like Traffic Deaths

By Kea Wilson | Mar 24, 2020 | No Comments
Deadly car crashes are not the price we must pay to sustain our civilization. Neither are coronavirus deaths.
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