Kea Wilson
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Advocates to Biden: There’s a Better Way to Address Rising Gas Prices
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Hint: give people more ways to get around that don't involve burning it.
Wisconsin Car Attack Is an Example of Our Failure to Prevent Cars Being Used as Weapons
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Policy, culture, and environment create conditions that all too often permit such crimes — and by failing to address those conditions, advocates argue, we practically ensure that such atrocities will continue to happen.
Advocates Hope ‘Inspired’ RAISE Grants are a Taste of Things To Come
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The U.S. DOT wowed sustainable transportation advocates with its list of grantees for the RAISE grant program, which will funnel $1 billion dollars to transportation capital and planning projects across America — and stoked optimism for how the agency would spend the historic $100 billion in discretionary funding it just won with the passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
Almost No One in Congress Has Signed Onto National ‘Vision Zero’ Pledge
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"Honestly, this should be an easy first step," said one activist.
‘An Epic Mistake’: Donald Shoup Reflects on America’s Parking Failure
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"There are so many ways in which we’d be better off if we reformed our parking policy: reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, nitrous oxide emissions, particulate pollution, traffic crashes. Urban planners have made epic mistakes in almost all of their parking policies. But now they can fix it."
Four Ways ‘Automobility’ Shapes Our Lives — Besides Crashes and Climate
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The violence of car culture extends far beyond the obvious outrages of car crashes, pollution, destroyed communities and structural racism, a fascinating new paper argues.
Report: Climate Goals Impossible Unless Sustainable Transport Claims 40 Percent of Mode Share
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City residents must massively increase the percentage of journeys they take on public transportation and using active modes within 10 years if the world is going to meet its climate targets, a new report argues — but federal governments aren't stepping up to make it happen.
COP26 ‘Transport Day’ Ignores Everything But EVs
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The agenda for "transport day" at COP26 Glasgow is dominated almost entirely by electric cars. So, in other words, the planet is screwed.
How the New Infrastructure Deal Will Make Transit Better
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...especially if the Build Back Better Act passes through reconciliation later this month.
‘Small Victories’ For Vulnerable Road Users In Infrastructure Bill
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Active transportation advocates are celebrating modest but potentially powerful new policies in the newly passed transportation infrastructure bill — but more needs to be done.
It’s Time for America to Talk About Bike Parking
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A historic commitment to increase bike parking in Paris has U.S. advocates wondering why cycle storage doesn't get the same level of attention in American cities — and sharing policy strategies that could help.
Advocates Demand Global Leaders Increase Bike Mode Share
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Sustainable transportation advocates are urging world leaders at COP26 to commit to a global goal to increase cycling mode share — because if they don't, there is "no conceivable way" for them to meet the summit's climate goals.