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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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Senators Urge Regulators to ‘Put the Pedal to the Metal’ On Vehicle Safety Standards

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Bicycle Infrastructure

Can This Documentary Get Americans to Care About Pedestrian and Cyclist Deaths?

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

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Yonah Freemark

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Car crashes

The First Step to Ending Pedestrian Deaths? Tax Heavy Cars In Cities

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Why French and US Road Deaths Went In Dramatically Different Directions

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.

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America Walks

These Communities Are Making Progress After ‘Jaywalking’ Reform

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Freeways

Why Nearly A Fifth of Pedestrians Deaths Happen on Freeways — And How to Stop It

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Infrastructure

Four Reasons that Pedestrian Deaths Just Hit a 40-Year High

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ADAS

Advocates: It’s Time To Tell NHTSA to Make Cars Safer For Walkers

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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Carnage

Road Deaths Rise — Again! — As Post-Quarantine Period Proves Particularly Perilous to Pedestrians

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Feds: Megacar Owners Actually Drove More In 2020 Than 2019

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