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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

Kait Spielmaker

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Car culture

Opinion: It’s Time to Embrace ‘Deinfluencing’ Car Culture — and Gen Z is Leading

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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Federal Funding

Congress’s Messy ‘Fix-It-First’ Fight Heats Up

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Cities, Counties, States and Countries

Syracuse’s Messy I-81 Teardown Fight Shows the Challenge of ‘Reconnecting Communities’

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America Walks

Advocates Warn ‘Reconnecting Communities’ Program Could Actually Expand Highways

Robert Goodspeed

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Boondoggles

Opinion: Stop Expanding the Damn Roads in Michigan

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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Austin

Talking Headways Podcast: Texas Highway Tangle

Tabloid legend Gersh Kuntzman 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’s also the writer and producer of “Murder at the Food Coop,” which was a hit at the NYC Fringe Festival in 2016, and “SUV: The Musical” in 2007. He also writes the Cycle of Rage column, which is <a href="https://nyc.streetsblog.org/category/special-features/cycle-of-rage" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">archived here</a>.

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Gersh Kuntzman

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Highway Boondoggles

Highway Boondoggles, Part VII: Oregon’s Abernethy Insanity

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Highway Boondoggles Part V: Duluth’s ‘Can of Worms’

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Mile-High City Halts Two Highway Expansions — And Gives the Money to Transit Instead

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>)

Highway Expansion

Opinion: It’s Time to Embrace ‘Deinfluencing’ Car Culture — and Gen Z is Leading