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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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Sustainable Transport Advocates Decry ‘Precision Scheduled Railroading’ After Ohio Derailment

This story is the work of the Streetsblog staff.

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What An Ideal Green New Deal for Transportation Might Look Like

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Senate Bill Would Put Teen Drivers in Big Rigs

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: Can We ‘Schedule’ Cities to Work for Us?

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A Look Back at Bezos’s Dirty Legacy on U.S. Roadways

Dr. Destiny Thomas is the founder and chief executive officer of <a href="https://thrivancegroup.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Thrivance Group</a>. An anthropologist planner from Oakland, Thomas has a combined six years of experience working in a project manager capacity within government agencies. In addition, Thomas has seven years of experience leading key advancements in racial equity initiatives across the state by way of community organizing, policy writing, and non-profit management in communities that have been most impacted by racial inequities. Thomas earned a BA in Political Science from Fisk University in 2006, an MPA with an emphasis in Public Health and Non Profit Management from Tennessee State University in 2008, and a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the California Institute of Integral Studies in 2016. Follow her on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/DrDesThePlanner?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@drdestheplanner</a>.

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Opinion: Urbanism is Complicit in Infra-Structural Racism — And Reparations Have a Place in the Built Environment

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COVID-19 Reveals That the Real Cure For Freight Truck Congestion is Fewer Cars

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Naysayers: You Can’t Do THAT On A Bike!

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Talking Headways Podcast: An Operating System for the Public Right of Way

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>)