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EXCLU: Many MTA Board Members Barely Use Their Free MetroCards

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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How a Transit App for the Blind Could Revolutionize How Everyone Rides

Email Eve Kessler at <a href="mailto:eve@streetsblog.org">eve@streetsblog.org</a>

Eve Kessler

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THE ASK: Riders Alliance Wants City, State To Attack ‘Root Causes’ of Transit Ills

Email Julianne Cuba at <a href="mailto:julianne@streetsblog.org">julianne@streetsblog.org</a>

Julianne Cuba

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WHAT IS TO BE DONE? Experts Discuss Subway Crime, Death, Homelessness

Dan Quart

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OPINION: To Save the Subway, Tax the Ultra-Wealthy

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President Trump’s ‘Anarchist’ Declaration Could Cost Transit Funds to Three Big Cities 

Connor Harris

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OPINION: Five Cheap Ways To Improve the Subway

Kafui Attoh

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Protests Lay Bare Structural Racism in Transit Policing

Philip Plotch, PhD is the principal researcher at the Eno Center for Transportation. He has been a transportation planner, director of World Trade Center Redevelopment, political science professor, director of a master of public administration program, and a U.S. Fulbright Scholar. He is also the author of three highly acclaimed books: Politics Across the Hudson: The Tappan Zee Megaproject, Last Subway: The Long Wait for the Next Train in New York, and Mobilizing the Metropolis: How the Port Authority Built New York.

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The Second Avenue Subway’s Lessons for American Transit

Yonah Freemark is the research director of the Land Use Lab at Urban Institute.

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