Kea Wilson

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A twenty mile per hour neighborhood speed limit saves lives in the best of times. In a pandemic, it can make the difference between an overburdened hospital system and one that's strained to a breaking point. Source Creative Commons.

Lowering Speed Limits Will Help Stop COVID-19

By Kea Wilson | Mar 16, 2020 | No Comments

Hospitals are about to be overwhelmed with virus patients. Let's not strain our health care system any more — we need to reduce speed limits now.

Big Data Could Fix Transport. Is That a Good Thing?

By Kea Wilson | Mar 13, 2020 | No Comments

Most of us are already sharing our location with private corporations almost every day. Could we use that data for good — or do we need to fight Big Brother?

Why yes, in fact, that is a racist depiction of a gang of mostly brown people menacing a white woman with a knife on a public train.

Streetsblog 101: How Pop Culture Stigmatizes Transit

By Kea Wilson | Mar 12, 2020 | No Comments

Have you ever noticed that almost any time characters ride a bus or a train in a movie, they...kinda hate it?

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America is Spending Billions Just to Make Traffic Worse

By Kea Wilson | Mar 11, 2020 | No Comments

Induced demand isn't news to Streetsblog readers. But a new report from Transportation for America illustrates exactly how stupid lane widenings really are.

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Bird Hatches an Electric Moped — and Big Questions

By Kea Wilson | Mar 6, 2020 | No Comments

The shared scooter/bike giant is adding a new vehicle to its fleet, starting with Austin.

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Streetsblog 101: How Media Help Build Car Culture

By Kea Wilson | Mar 5, 2020 | No Comments

Journalists reinforce anti-sustainable transportation sentiment in all kinds of ways — but they don't have to.

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Burying Crumbling Urban Highways Isn't the Answer

By Kea Wilson | Mar 4, 2020 | No Comments

It's tunnel vision! Lawmakers in New York are looking to Seattle for advice on how to fix a crumbling highway — but the Emerald City's experiment with a highway tunnel is no model. Here's why.

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Auto Right-of-Way Laws Are Where America Went Wrong

By Kea Wilson | Mar 3, 2020 | No Comments

Before the widespread adoption of the automobile, every road user had to think critically about whose turn it was to go — and a pedestrian in a car's path *always* meant the driver had to stand down.