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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 previously worked at Strong Towns, and currently lives in St. Louis, MO. Kea can be reached at <a href="mailto:kea@streetsblog.org">kea@streetsblog.org</a> or on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/streetsblogkea">@streetsblogkea</a>. Please reach out to her with tips and submissions.

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Kea Wilson

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Climate Change

Big Auto’s Fuel Economy Plateau is Especially Bad News for Pedestrians

Arian Horbovetz

Megacar Crisis

Opinion: The Real Reason Why Americans Keep Buying SUVs

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Children

Senator Calls on Feds to Mandate ‘Frontover’ Cameras on Huge Cars — But It Won’t Save Enough Lives

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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Bicycle Safety

Study: SUVs Are Indeed Death Machines for Children and Black Road Users

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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ANALYSIS: These Advocates Want You to Deflate Your Neighbor’s SUV Tires

Mary Wisniewski

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Bicycling

Pickups and SUVs are driving the pedestrian death epidemic. But the tide may be turning.

Aaron Short is a New York City-based writer with a long history of work with the New York Post, Hell Gate and others. He is also the co-author of &#8220;The Method to the Madness: Donald Trump&#8217;s Ascent as Told by Those Who Were Hired, Fired, Inspired — And Inaugurated.&#8221; (<a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250202819/themethodtothemadness">Macmillan</a>)

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Aaron Short

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Car culture

D.C. SUV Owners Will Finally Pay Much More to Drive Such Behemoths

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Infrastructure

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

Tom Flood

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Ad Nauseam

Opinion: Now Detroit is Selling $75K Pickup Trucks for the Cappuccino Run

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