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US DOT Secretary Elaine Chao Resigns

By Kea Wilson | Jan 7, 2021 | No Comments
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. 
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Why Advocates Need to Talk About Seating

By Kea Wilson | Jan 7, 2021 | No Comments
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.
Jon Ossoff, left, via	John Ramspott/Creative Commons.. Rev. Raphael Warnock, right, via Raphael Warnock/Creative Commons

Dem Wins Put Transport Reform In Reach

By Kea Wilson | Jan 6, 2021 | No Comments
Democrats reclaiming majority control of the Senate creates a path to a green infrastructure bill that has eluded sustainable transportation advocates for decades.
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Virginia Policy Could End Jaywalking Stops

By Kea Wilson | Jan 4, 2021 | No Comments
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.
Black LIves Matter Plaza, created by the Government of the District of Columbia, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. Photo: Ted Eytan via Creative Commons

UNIMAGINABLE: The Year in Sustainable Transportation

By Kea Wilson | Dec 30, 2020 | No Comments
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. Image courtesy Thrivance Group

Destiny Thomas on the 2021 Un-Urbanist Assembly

By Kea Wilson | Dec 22, 2020 | No Comments
"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."
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Crashes, Injuries are Up, New Fed Stats Show

By Kea Wilson | Dec 18, 2020 | No Comments
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.
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Study: The U.S. Can Afford to Build More Rail

By Kea Wilson | Dec 18, 2020 | No Comments
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. 
Jennifer Granholm, left, and Gina McCarthy, right. Images via Creative Commons.

Unpacking Biden's 'Climate-Change' Cabinet

By Kea Wilson | Dec 17, 2020 | No Comments
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. 
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What Secretary Pete Could Mean for the US DOT

By Kea Wilson | Dec 15, 2020 | No Comments
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.
Image: Creative Commons

New COVID-19 Relief Bill Starves Transit — Again

By Kea Wilson | Dec 15, 2020 | No Comments
But it's better than nothing at all.
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Was 2020 The Year Driverless Cars Became Inevitable?

By Kea Wilson | Dec 15, 2020 | No Comments
It may not immediately look like it, but 2020 may have been the year when autonomous vehicles became inevitable. An overview.
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