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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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To Make Cities More Sustainable, Should We All Put On Mascot Costumes?

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What It’s Really Like to Lose Someone to Traffic Violence

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Cycling Through COVID-19: Austin, Portland and Washington, D.C.

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Coronavirus

DC May Soon Give Every Resident $100 Per Month For Transit, Improve Service

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Automated Enforcement

Advocates Hope D.C.’s Proposed Right-On-Red Ban Will Inspire National Reform

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Gas Prices

Driving is the New Smoking: Lessons From America’s Public Health Victory Over Tobacco

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Bicycle Safety

‘We’re Luring Bicyclists To Their Deaths’: Husband of Diplomat Killed While Cycling Turns Anguish Into Advocacy

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Disability

How a Transit App for the Blind Could Revolutionize How Everyone Rides

Caitlin Rogger

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Car-Friendly Cities Are Not Age-Friendly Cities

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>)