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

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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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Kea Wilson

Downtown highway

Car culture

Why Highway Teardowns Make Great Infrastructure (and Equity) Investments

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Spaghetti junction

Boondoggles

Op Ed: We Shouldn’t Fix Some ‘Crumbling’ Highways

Seattle-99-Tunnel

Buried Highways

Memo from Seattle: Burying Crumbling Urban Highways Isn’t the Answer

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Austin

Op-Ed: A $7.5B Boondoggle Advances in Austin

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

Louisville’s Downtown Crossing

Amtrak

It’s Progressives vs. Labor over Transportation Money

Angie is a Cleveland-based writer with a background in planning and newspaper reporting. She has been writing about cities for Streetsblog for six years.

Highway Removal

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Why Highway Teardowns Make Great Infrastructure (and Equity) Investments

Op Ed: We Shouldn’t Fix Some ‘Crumbling’ Highways

Memo from Seattle: Burying Crumbling Urban Highways Isn’t the Answer

Op-Ed: A $7.5B Boondoggle Advances in Austin

It’s Progressives vs. Labor over Transportation Money

Federal Program Would Help Cities Tear Down Highways

Highway Boondoggles 2019: Nine Projects That Should Never Happen

Paradigm-Shifting Highway Teardown Gaining Traction in Tampa

Street Grid to Replace Old I-81 in Syracuse, NYS Decides

Seattle’s Viadoom: The ‘Carmageddon’ That Wasn’t