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

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THE BRAKE: Why Americans Don’t Always Drive Less When Gas Prices Soar

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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Kea Wilson

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Car Dependence

How Cities Can Use Transportation Demand Management to ‘Manage’ Car Dependency

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

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Jeff Wood

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Accessibility

Talking Headways Podcast: A Next-Generation Transportion Policy

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Car culture

Study: Car Ownership Doesn’t Always Cut Black Workers’ Commutes

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Talking Headways Podcast: A New Way of Public Engagement in Durham

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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Bicycling

Study: Shifting Commutes During Pandemic Reduced Cyclists Hit By Drivers

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Talking Headways Podcast: How We’ve Subsidized Driving (and What To Do About It)

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Studies Show Riding Transit During Pandemic Is Pretty Safe

Charles Komanoff is a national expert on congestion pricing and traffic modeling, and is the former head of Transportation Alternatives. He is a longtime Streetsblog contributor. Reach him at <a href="mailto:komanoff@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">komanoff@gmail.com</a>.

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Charles Komanoff

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Carbon Tax

KOMANOFF: Downturn in U.S. Driving Led Global CO2 Decline

Email Eve Kessler at <a href="mailto:eve@streetsblog.org">eve@streetsblog.org</a>

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Riders Haven’t Abandoned Transit During COVID — They’re Taking Fewer Trips: Report