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

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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.

John Greenfield

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Greenways

Take a Virtual Ride on Chicago’s Newest Greenway

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 previously worked at Strong Towns, and currently lives in St. Louis, MO. Kea can be reached at <a href="mailto:kea@streetsblog.org">kea@streetsblog.org</a> or on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/streetsblogkea">@streetsblogkea</a>. Please reach out to her with tips and submissions.

Kea Wilson

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Bicycling

Is NW Arkansas About to Become the Next Biking Capital of America?

Bicycle Infrastructure

Op-Ed: The Time for More Federal Dollars for Greenways Is Now

Disability

Op-Ed: What Is an ‘Accessible’ Park, Anyway?

Is a Federal Greenway Act What the U.S. Needs to Recover from COVID-19?

Aaron Short

Bicycle Safety

Ride Single-File in These Upstate Towns Or Risk Arrest

In spring 2017, Stephen wrote for Streetsblog USA, covering the livable streets movement and transportation policy developments around the nation.
From August 2012 to October 2015, he was a reporter for Streetsblog NYC, covering livable streets and transportation issues in the city and the region. After joining Streetsblog, he covered the tail end of the Bloomberg administration and the launch of Citi Bike. Since then, he covered mayoral elections, the de Blasio administration&#8217;s ongoing Vision Zero campaign, and New York City&#8217;s ever-evolving street safety and livable streets movements.

Stephen Miller

Highlighting the Inequity of Access to Good Bicycling Infrastructure in Milwaukee

Clarence Eckerson Jr. is the Director of Video Production for NYCSR&#8217;s StreetFilms and producer of bikeTV. He loves the color purple, chocolate chip cookies, and enjoys walking, biking, and taking transit. He has never owned a driver&#8217;s license.

Clarence Eckerson Jr.

Minneapolis’s Midtown Greenway: Good for Bikes, Good for Business

Ethan Kent practices Placemaking as a Vice President with Project for Public Spaces. His experiences photographing, evaluating and helping to improve public spaces in hundreds of cities around the world form the foundation of his work. Ethan helped found the NYC Streets Renaissance Campaign and leads PPSs efforts in NYC, managing PPSs role in the campaign.

Ethan Kent

Andy Wiley-Schwartz

Indianapolis Paves the Way for Bikes and Pedestrians

AARON NAPARSTEK is the founder and former editor-in-chief of Streetsblog. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Naparsteks journalism, advocacy and community organizing work has been instrumental in growing the bicycle network, removing motor vehicles from parks, and developing new public plazas, car-free streets and life-saving traffic-calming measures across all five boroughs. Naparstek is the author of &#8220;Honku: The Zen Antidote for Road Rage&#8221; (Villard, 2003), a book of humorous haiku poetry inspired by the endless motorist sociopathy observed from his apartment window. Prior to launching Streetsblog, Naparstek worked as an interactive media producer, pioneering some of the Web&#8217;s first music web sites, online communities, live webcasts and social networking services. Naparstek is currently in Cambridge with his wife and two young sons where he is enjoying a Loeb Fellowship at Harvard University&#8217;s Graduate School of Design. He has a master&#8217;s degree from Columbia University&#8217;s Graduate School of Journalism and a bachelor&#8217;s degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Naparstek is a co-founder of the Park Slope Neighbors community group and the Grand Army Plaza Coalition. You can find more of his work here: http://www.naparstek.com.

Aaron Naparstek

Air Quality

New Blog Focuses on Tearing Down the “Highway to Nowhere”