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Eve Kessler

Email Eve Kessler at eve@streetsblog.org

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A Ford autonomous vehicle. Photo: Via Flickr

NACTO Pushes Back as Big Auto Seeks Safety Exemption for Driverless Cars

By Eve Kessler | Sep 23, 2022 | No Comments
The national association of city transportation officials cries foul as Ford and GM try an end run around the NHTSA for cars without steering wheels and brakes.
Photo:  Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
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ANALYSIS: Can States Mandate Speed Governors on New Cars?

By Eve Kessler | Aug 30, 2022 | No Comments
Advocates are cheering a first-in-the-nation New York bill that would mandate speed-limiting technology in new cars and would limit large passenger vehicles that have blind spots that endanger pedestrians and other vulnerable road users. But does New York even have the authority to regulate cars this way?
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New Bill Would Mandate Speed Governors and Set Limits on Huge SUVs on NY Streets by 2024

By Eve Kessler | Aug 22, 2022 | No Comments
Sen. Brad Hoylman introduces what he says is a first-in-the-nation effort to make active safety technology standard on new cars.
Image:  Piqsels via Creative Commons

To Fix Inflation And Climate Change, Get Americans out of Cars

By Eve Kessler | Aug 17, 2022 | No Comments
Our gas-guzzling rides are tanking our personal finances and municipal budgets as well as dooming the planet.
There is nothing safe about wide roads like this that cut through most of our cities and towns. Photo: Forever Ready Productions for Smart Growth America

Bad Road Design Is Stoking the U.S. Pedestrian Death Crisis: Report

By Eve Kessler | Jul 12, 2022 | No Comments
States that built streets for speed over safety experienced big fatality jumps even as driving diminished during the pandemic.
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How to Address the Root Causes of Transit Safety

By Eve Kessler | Jun 12, 2022 | No Comments
The key transit advocacy group has a very long list of improvements it wants from Gov. Hochul, Mayor Adams, MTA CEO Janno Lieber and NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell.
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Two Scooter Companies Claim They Have the Tech to Stop Sidewalk Parking

By Eve Kessler | May 11, 2022 | No Comments
Two e-scooter-share companies, Bird and Lime, unveiled new tech for combatting the single-biggest complaint about scooters: riders who leave them all over the sidewalk.
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THUNDER ROAD: Car Noise Stokes Heart Attacks, Study Finds

By Eve Kessler | May 4, 2022 | No Comments
Researchers in New Jersey link traffic racket to cardiovascular disease and cardiac episodes, proving again that it's death, not redemption, that's beneath a dirty hood.
Source: Max Pixel via Creative Commons

STEAL THIS IDEA: Denver Offering Rebates on E-Bike Purchases

By Eve Kessler | Apr 26, 2022 | No Comments
Colorado is high ... on getting e-bikes into the hands of drivers.
GOP governors don't want any curtailment of highway widening. Above, a highway in Pittsburgh. Photo: File

GOP Govs to Biden: Don’t Force Your Progressive Politics on our Highway Projects

By Eve Kessler | Jan 21, 2022 | No Comments
Republican governors banded together to thwart the federal government's push to use the new $1.2-trillion infrastructure package to promote progress on climate change, jobs and racial justice.
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SEE IT: Streetfilms Shows How Cargo Bikes Are Revolutionizing Family Life

By Eve Kessler | Jan 11, 2022 | No Comments
Parents with conventional or electric bikes are loading up their kids (sometimes several kids!) and taking them everywhere.
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In New York, Business Groups — Not the City — Lead on People-Centered Streets

By Eve Kessler | Nov 29, 2021 | No Comments
Commercial interests have pushed pedestrianization in the city's core shopping areas — because it improves their bottom lines. That can be good for residents but it has downsides, too.
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