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Kea Wilson

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Japan’s ‘Old Enough!’ Sparks Questions About Car-Dependent US Childhoods

By Kea Wilson | Apr 19, 2022 | No Comments
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.
Photo: KTTN, CC

Can We Stop Stoned Driving Without Ending Car Dependency?

By Kea Wilson | Apr 15, 2022 | No Comments
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.
Surprise! An electric car that stays in a garage while its owner drives their other, gas-powered vehicle isn't any help to the planet. Photo: Steve Jurvetson, CC

Study: Today’s EV Tax Credits Might Actually Increase Emissions

By Kea Wilson | Apr 13, 2022 | No Comments
America's approach to incentivizing electric vehicle adoption may actually increase emissions in the long run, a new study finds. 
Photo: Airfare Watchdog, CC

Can ‘Buses-As-Flights’ Get Americans Out of Cars — And Planes?

By Kea Wilson | Apr 11, 2022 | No Comments
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.
Main photo: MPCA, CC

Buttigieg’s New Emissions Standards Fail to Close ‘Light Truck Loophole’

By Kea Wilson | Apr 4, 2022 | No Comments
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

By Kea Wilson | Apr 1, 2022 | No Comments
Here are two small-city stops that stole voters' hearts in round one. Now, they compete against each other.
Image: gmsjs90 via Pixabay, CC
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Road Rage Shootings Are On a Terrifying Rise

By Kea Wilson | Jun 15, 2021 | No Comments
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.
Image: >a href="http://data.curtis-mem.lib.me.us/go/go.html?code=cumberland">Cumberland County Trails

Active Transportation Big in ‘INVEST’ Earmarks

By Kea Wilson | Jun 11, 2021 | No Comments
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.  
Image: All Nite Images via Creative Commons

Advocates Throw Weight Behind INVEST Act 2.0

By Kea Wilson | Jun 11, 2021 | No Comments
It's “arguably the most transformative transportation bill of our lifetimes,” one advocate said.
An electric Hummer may be even more likely to kill you than a regular one. Via Car and Driver.

Heavy EVs May Be More Dangerous To U.S. Walkers

By Kea Wilson | Jun 9, 2021 | No Comments
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

By Kea Wilson | Jun 7, 2021 | No Comments
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.
Image: Screenshot from KMPH

Regulators Aren't Taming U.S. Megacar Crisis

By Kea Wilson | Jun 4, 2021 | No Comments
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.
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