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

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Streetsblog USA

Email Dave Colon at <a href="mailto:dcolon@streetsblog.org">dcolon@streetsblog.org</a>

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Dave Colon

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Congestion Pricing

MTA Offers Funding for Bronx Clean-Up to Get Congestion Pricing Over the Line

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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Electric Cars

Biden’s Electric Vehicle Charging Initiative is Simply Not Going to Solve America’s Car or Climate Problem

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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Highway Expansion

‘Secretary Pete Can’t Save You’: FHWA OKs Houston Highway Expansion After Pause

Gabriel Baumgaertner

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Climate Change

Rest In Pieces, ‘Fix-it-First’: Biden Caves to GOP’s Highway Expansion Obsession

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Congestion Pricing Update: New York’s Tolls will Have National Implications

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What The Proposed GHG Rule Will (And Won’t) Do for the Climate

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

Eve Kessler

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Transportation Policy

Bad Road Design Is Stoking the U.S. Pedestrian Death Crisis: Report

NYC Congestion Pricing Moves Ahead as MTA Answers Feds’ 400 Technical Questions

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

Educated at the Sorbonne and the Yale School of Drama, Gersh Kuntzman is obviously not the person being described here. We&#8217;re talking about tabloid legend Gersh Kuntzman, who has been with New York newspapers since 1989, including stints at the New York Daily News, the Post, the Brooklyn Paper and even a cup of coffee with the Times. He&#8217;s also the writer and producer of &#8220;Murder at the Food Coop,&#8221; which was a hit at the NYC Fringe Festival in 2016, and “SUV: The Musical” in 2007. Email Gersh at <a href="mailto:gersh@streetsblog.org">gersh@streetsblog.org</a>

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Gersh Kuntzman

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Carnage

Road Deaths Rise — Again! — As Post-Quarantine Period Proves Particularly Perilous to Pedestrians

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