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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

Nicole A. Murray

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Car culture

OPINION: To Ban Cars, Socialize Them

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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Car crashes

STUDY: Police Stops Don’t Stop Car Crashes

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I Watched ‘F9’ So Other Bike/Ped Advocates Don’t Have To

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Cars

Study: Driving to Save Time Just Slows Everyone Down

Todd Litman

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Not So Fast: Why Slower Is Often Better

Car crash

Stats Show Black and Indigenous People Suffer Disproportionate Road Deaths

Jesse Coburn is Streetsblog&#8217;s investigative reporter. His reporting has received a Sigma Award, a Casey Feldman Award, and awards from the Silurians Press Club and the Overseas Press Club Foundation. Previously he was a reporter at Newsday and an editor at ARCH+. He’s also written for the New York Times, the Baltimore Sun, Harper’s, Cabinet and other publications. Jesse is is on Twitter at <a href="//twitter.com/jesse_coburn">@jesse_coburn</a>. His email address is <a href="mailto:jesse@streetsblog.org">jesse@streetsblog.org</a>.

Jesse Coburn

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Bicycling

Study: Complete Streets Lead to Better Crash Coverage

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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Talking Headways Podcast: More Highways, More Driving

John Stout

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OPINION: Raise the Gas Tax? Yes, but Fix Transportation Spending First

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Not a Coincidence: Maryland Couple Dies on Same Dangerous Road Five Years Apart