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Kea Wilson

How Even Modest Reductions in Parking Can Slash Your Rent

Excess parking is costing renters dearly, even if they don't drive — and in New Jersey, a small tweak in local zoning codes save them over a thousand dollars a year.

November 1, 2023

How Activists Are Making Streets Safer When Their Governments Won’t — And How You Can, Too

When their cities won't build a bike lane or stripe a crosswalk, activists are stepping in and doing it themselves — and they say anyone can take part.

October 30, 2023

Study: Yes, SUVs Are Deadlier Than Cars — But on Fast Arterials, Pedestrians Die No Matter What

In car-dependent Tennessee, SUVs and pick-ups aren't driving the pedestrian death surge — because speed limits are so high that even the smallest cars will kill anyone they might strike.

October 25, 2023

Colorado’s Vehicle Weight Fee Could Tame Megacar Crisis — And Protect Vulnerable Road users

The proposal could also dodge many of the political pitfalls that too often kill similar ideas.

October 18, 2023

How AI Could Transform Transportation — And Not Just Autonomous Vehicles

Artificial intelligence is being installed in cars — but that's not the only place it's showing up. A new report explores what cities need to know about the emerging tech in order to use it well.

October 17, 2023

Victims of Sexual Assault in Ubers Band Together for Justice and Reform

The attorneys behind a massive federal lawsuit say the growth-obsessed corporate ride hail model itself bears some of the blame for the crisis.

October 16, 2023

Anti-Fat Bias Harms the Movement for Safe Streets — Particularly for Kids

Why are we only focusing on calorie-burning when advocating for active transport to school? Because of bad research.

October 12, 2023

Equity-Focused Projects America Needs Right Now

Advocates are handing their DOTs a list of transformative transit projects that could heal the harms of the past — and a list of boondoggles that deserve to be scrapped.

October 10, 2023

Bill McKibben Talks About Why the ‘Week Without Driving’ Campaign Is Only the Beginning

One of America's most well-respected environmentalists reflects on how car dependency impacts our planet and our species.

October 9, 2023

Teens Are Demanding Greener Routes to School — And Climate Education When They Get There

"It's absolutely unreasonable for adults to expect young people to stop the climate crisis when we aren't even learning the basic facts about it in our schools."

October 5, 2023