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

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Yonah Freemark is the research director of the Land Use Lab at Urban Institute.

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Yonah Freemark

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Electric Cars

What the Inflation Reduction Act Will — And Won’t — Do For Sustainable Transportation

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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Climate Change

Instead of Just Buying American EVs, Let’s Buy an American Path Out of Car Dependency

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E-bikes

What’s in the New ‘Climate’ Deal for Sustainable Transport — And What’s Not

In addition to editing Streetsblog Chicago, John writes the transportation column for the Chicago Reader weekly paper. A Chicagoan since 1989, he enjoys exploring the city on foot, bike, bus, and &#8216;L&#8217; train.

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Bicycling

Education, infrastructure, and holding drivers accountable > bike helmets for cyclist safety

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15 Minute Cities

Analysis: There Are No 15-Minute Cities in a Post-Roe America

Mary Wisniewski

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Pickups and SUVs are driving the pedestrian death epidemic. But the tide may be turning.

Austin Wu

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OPINION: Feds Must Make New Cars Safer for Bikers, Too

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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Affordable Housing

Talking Headways Podcast: What It Takes To Be a Developer

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Shared Mobility Action Agenda aims to make non-private-car modes handy for all by 2030

Courtney Cobbs

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Chicago

A back door deal: Land transfer to facilitate driving to O’Hare from west is a bad investment

Federal Policy