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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

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

Julianne Cuba

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Open Streets

Inside a ‘Open Street’ Fight So Bitter, They Had to Call in a Mediator

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SEE IT: Streets Can Be So Much More than Car Sewers

Kevin Duggan

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New York’s Mayor Adams Will Create a ‘Public Realm Czar’

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Take the Fifth: Pedestrians Revel on Car-Free Streets Near NY’s Xmas Tree

This story is the work of the Streetsblog staff.

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Interview: How to Start A Grassroots Safe Streets Movement In Your City

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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Driving is the New Smoking: Lessons From America’s Public Health Victory Over Tobacco

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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Car-Free Streets

U.S. Cities Can Learn from Car-Free School Streets in Paris, London and Tirana?!

Educated at the Sorbonne and the Yale School of Drama, Gersh Kuntzman is obviously not the person being described here. We&#8217;re talking about tabloid legend Gersh Kuntzman, who 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&#8217;s also the writer and producer of &#8220;Murder at the Food Coop,&#8221; which was a hit at the NYC Fringe Festival in 2016, and “SUV: The Musical” in 2007. Email Gersh at <a href="mailto:gersh@streetsblog.org">gersh@streetsblog.org</a>

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Gersh Kuntzman

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STREETFILMS: The Peaceful Pedestrian Plazas of Paris … And What They Can Teach Us

Roger Rudick is editor of Streetsblog SF.

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Roger Rudick

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Bike Lanes

The Return of Sunday Streets

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Ten Ways the U.S. Could Cut Gas Reliance Right Now (But Probably Won’t)