Kea Wilson
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US DOT Secretary Elaine Chao Resigns
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The 18th Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao has announced her resignation following a violent riot at the nation's capitol by predominantly white Trump supporters that went largely unchecked by law enforcement for hours, reminding many advocates of her department's consistent complicity in perpetuating police brutality and white supremacy in America.
Why Advocates Need to Talk About Seating
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When we talk about increasing access to sustainable transportation, many street safety advocates fail to talk about placing benches with anywhere near the fervor with which we talk laying train track or building bike lanes. That needs to change.
Dem Wins Put Transport Reform In Reach
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Democrats reclaiming majority control of the Senate creates a path to a green infrastructure bill that has eluded sustainable transportation advocates for decades.
Virginia Policy Could End Jaywalking Stops
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A new Virginia law will prohibit police from utilizing one of the most outrageous pretexts to harass people of color: walking in the street outside of a designated crosswalk.
UNIMAGINABLE: The Year in Sustainable Transportation
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What a crazy year — but if we take a moment to look back and think about all that happened in 2020, we might find ourselves finally ready to seize the sustainable transportation future.
Destiny Thomas on the 2021 Un-Urbanist Assembly
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"The truth is, we could do without urban planning. And if we did, that wouldn’t mean that no one would be thinking intentionally about how to make cities. The instrument, the arm, the machine [for] city-making — it's got to go."
Crashes, Injuries are Up, New Fed Stats Show
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Walking and cycling fatalities on U.S. roadways declined slightly in 2019 — but total crashes and injuries increased, according to just-released final federal numbers for last year.
Study: The U.S. Can Afford to Build More Rail
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The persistent myth that it just costs more to build train lines in the U.S. than it does abroad is mostly bunk, a new analysis finds — but costs quickly balloon when we start building them underground, for reasons that researchers can't yet fully explain.
Unpacking Biden's 'Climate-Change' Cabinet
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Pete Buttigieg drew most of the attention earlier this week, but two other key cabinet appointments this week could signal that electric vehicles remain at the center of the President-elect's climate strategy — despite evidence that transit, walking and biking is far more critical to cutting greenhouse gases.
What Secretary Pete Could Mean for the US DOT
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Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg has been tapped to be Secretary of Transportation. Whatever you think, remember that this guy is one of the few politicians who acknowledges the "many ways we subsidize driving." So there's that.
New COVID-19 Relief Bill Starves Transit — Again
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But it's better than nothing at all.
Was 2020 The Year Driverless Cars Became Inevitable?
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It may not immediately look like it, but 2020 may have been the year when autonomous vehicles became inevitable. An overview.