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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

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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Aggressive Driving

Road Rage Shootings Are On a Terrifying Rise

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Why Regulators Aren’t Taming the U.S. Megacar Crisis

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

U.S. DOT Must Do Better for Peds, Cyclists: Report

Streetsblog California Editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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Melanie Curry

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New NHTSA Head Was at Center of Pollution Fight

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Car crashes

NHTSA Blames Everyone But Itself For Crash Spike

Car Crash

Feds Hail Lower Road Deaths But Crashes, Injuries Increased

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Car culture

Memo to Feds: To Keep Seniors Safe on Our Roads, End Car Dependence

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Autonomous cars

Feds to (Finally) Explore Drunk Driving Prevention Tech

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Automakers

‘The Auto Industry Went Berserk’: Five Questions with Joan Claybrook, Former Head of NHTSA

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