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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

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Car crashes

Why States Require Insurance Cos. to Sell Policies to the Most Dangerous Drivers

Jeff Speck

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Car culture

Walkable City 10 Years Later: How Car Culture Takes Away Our Freedom

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Walkable City 10 Years Later: What If We Took Traffic Violence As Seriously As Terror?

This story is the work of the Streetsblog staff.

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What the Last Decade Has Done for the Walkability Movement

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Walkable City 10 Years Later: Cars Make Us Sicker Than We Thought

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How To Fix A Fork (In The Road)

4way

For a More Walkable City, Replace Signals with All-Way Stops

Tanya became Streetsblog&#8217;s Capitol Hill editor in September 2010 after covering Congress for Pacifica Radios Washington bureau and for public radio stations around the country. She lives car-free in a transit-oriented and bike-friendly neighborhood of Washington, DC.

Tanya Snyder

Jeff Speck: America Has So Many Problems. Walkability Solves Most of Them.

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.

Angie Schmitt

Cars

Here It Is: The Ultimate Absurdity in American Transportation

Author Jeff Speck on Walkability and the One Mistake That Can Wreck a City