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Covering the movement to end car dependency and improve biking, walking and transit in America.

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Jeff Wood is the creator of the Talking Headways podcast and editor of the newsletter The Overhead Wire.

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Talking Headways Podcast: The Annual Yonah Freemark Show, Part II

Kea Wilson is Senior Editor for Streetsblog USA. She has more than a dozen years experience as a writer telling emotional, urgent and actionable stories that motivate average Americans to get involved in making their cities better places. She is also a novelist, cyclist, and affordable housing advocate. She lives in St. Louis, MO. For tips, submissions, and general questions, reach out ther at <a href="mailto:kea@streetsblog.org">kea@streetsblog.org,</a> on X at <a href="https://twitter.com/streetsblogkea">@streetsblogkea,</a> or on Bluesky <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/keawilson.bsky.social">@keawilson.bsky.social.</a>

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Reconnecting Communities

Is Detroit  ‘Reconnecting Communities,’ or Missing an Opportunity?

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Talking Headways Podcast: Biking Further in Detroit (Yes, Detroit!)

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Opinion: Stop Expanding the Damn Roads in Michigan

Aaron Short is a New York City-based writer with a long history of work with the New York Post, Hell Gate and others. He is also the co-author of &#8220;The Method to the Madness: Donald Trump&#8217;s Ascent as Told by Those Who Were Hired, Fired, Inspired — And Inaugurated.&#8221; (<a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250202819/themethodtothemadness">Macmillan</a>)

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Aaron Short

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Detroit

Feds Using Freight Program Money to Tear Down a Detroit Highway

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Auto Insurance

How Car Insurance Impacts Cost of Living Across the U.S.

This story is the work of the Streetsblog staff.

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SORRIEST BUS STOPS 2021: Trenton vs. Narberth

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Why A New Michigan Law Has Non-Drivers Buying Car Insurance

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Car Dependence

Car-Dependency Makes City Life Too Expensive

Angie is a Cleveland-based writer with a background in planning and newspaper reporting. She has been writing about cities for Streetsblog for six years.

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Detroit Metro Area May Finally Get Better Transit