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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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Buses

Op-Ed: Every City Should Try This Innovative Way To Fund Transit

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

39th Street Bus

Kansas City Moves Ahead with Free Buses

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Bike/Ped

Five Lessons From Seattle’s Crusade Against Driving

Seattle transit

Boondoggles

Seattle Sues To Keep Car Tabs And Save Transit

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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Studies & Reports

How Transit Agencies Can Offer Better Paratransit Service at Lower Costs

New Orleans

Why Transit Agencies Expand Even When They Struggle to Provide Service

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.

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Op-Ed: Every City Should Try This Innovative Way To Fund Transit

Kansas City Moves Ahead with Free Buses

Five Lessons From Seattle’s Crusade Against Driving

Seattle Sues To Keep Car Tabs And Save Transit

How Transit Agencies Can Offer Better Paratransit Service at Lower Costs

Why Transit Agencies Expand Even When They Struggle to Provide Service

Lawmakers Push to Fund Transit Service During Economic Emergencies

Senate Banking Committee to Vote on Transit Section of Transpo Bill Friday

Carnahan and LaTourette Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Bolster Transit Service

Absent a Transportation Bill, DOT Can Innovate All On Its Own