Kea Wilson
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Japan’s ‘Old Enough!’ Sparks Questions About Car-Dependent US Childhoods
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A long-running Japanese TV show challenges young children to navigate their cities without adult supervision, making us wonder why American cities are so comparatively hostile to kids.
Can We Stop Stoned Driving Without Ending Car Dependency?
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Street safety advocates, government leaders and cannabis industry reps want drivers to not drive under the influence of marijuana — but all that talk will have little impact without accompanying systemic change that gives residents other options to get around when they've danced to the Doobie Brothers.
Study: Today’s EV Tax Credits Might Actually Increase Emissions
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America's approach to incentivizing electric vehicle adoption may actually increase emissions in the long run, a new study finds.
Can ‘Buses-As-Flights’ Get Americans Out of Cars — And Planes?
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U.S. airlines are beginning to contract with bus companies to run on-the-ground "flights" between nearby cities — and its prompting a conversation among advocates.
Buttigieg’s New Emissions Standards Fail to Close ‘Light Truck Loophole’
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U.S. DOT announced new emissions rules last week — but, once again, the strictest standards won't apply to the biggest, dirtiest cars.
America’s Best Bus Stops: Small-City Heroes
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Here are two small-city stops that stole voters' hearts in round one. Now, they compete against each other.
Road Rage Shootings Are On a Terrifying Rise
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Aggressive driving isn’t the only deadly behavior on the rise on American roads — because raging U.S. motorists are killing more people with guns than any point in recent history, too.
Active Transportation Big in ‘INVEST’ Earmarks
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An unprecedented number of infrastructure projects earmarked in the House infrastructure bill would serve pedestrians, micromobility riders, and people who use assistive devices, on top of the robust increases in core programs that already fund infrastructure for those modes.
Advocates Throw Weight Behind INVEST Act 2.0
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It's “arguably the most transformative transportation bill of our lifetimes,” one advocate said.
Heavy EVs May Be More Dangerous To U.S. Walkers
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A whole lot of heavy electric cars are likely to roll onto U.S. streets soon — but the U.S. hasn’t bothered to answer the question of how fatal they’ll be to pedestrians in the event of a crash.
The Advocate’s Cheat Sheet to Infrastructure Year
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Washington is in the thick of negotiating two major infrastructure bills that could reshape American transportation for decades. Here's a primer you can come back to again and again.
Regulators Aren't Taming U.S. Megacar Crisis
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Federal regulators have known about the inherent dangers that large vehicles pose to vulnerable road users since the mid-1970s, but have done almost nothing to stop it — and they probably won’t because of who we are as a nation, a new legal research paper argues.