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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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The Real Reason Buses Were Losing Riders Even Before COVID-19

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GOP Relief Bill Gives Zero Dollars to Sustainable Transportation

Jarrett Walker is an international consultant in public transit network design and policy, based in Portland, Oregon.  He has been a full-time consultant since 1991 and has led numerous major planning projects in cities and towns of all sizes, across North America, Australia, and New Zealand.  He is also the author of Human Transit: How clearer thinking about public transit can enrich our communites and our lives (Island Press, 2011; updated edition, 2024). He is President of <a href="http://jarrettwalker.com/" target="_self" rel="noopener">Jarrett Walker + Associates</a>, a consulting firm that provides advice and planning services North America.

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Jarrett Walker

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Rush Hour Transit Demand Craters Due to COVID-19 — But Midday Demand Doesn’t

Hand Washing

Op-Ed: We Need Handwashing Facilities At Every Public Transit Station in America

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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

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Kansas City Moves Ahead with Free Buses

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Bike/Ped

Five Lessons From Seattle’s Crusade Against Driving

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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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