Kea Wilson
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The 3 Secret Ingredients To Building Bike Networks Fast
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A handful of cities across America are building out bike lane networks faster than ever — and the secret ingredient isn’t concrete and paint, but strong partnerships and even stronger public messaging, a new analysis argues.
Study: Cycling is 10x More Important Than Electric Cars For Reaching Net Zero
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Electric cars aren’t truly zero-carbon – mining the raw materials for their batteries, manufacturing them and generating the electricity they run on produces emissions.
Four Reasons that Pedestrian Deaths Just Hit a 40-Year High
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Pedestrian death rates climbed to a 40-year high in 2021, but experts say the factors driving the national traffic violence crisis emerged far earlier.
Awful Highway Expansions in Denver and Portland are Halted
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State transportation agencies halted proposals to widen freeways in Denver and Portland amid rising costs, lawsuits, and stark questions about the projects’ destructive effects on the environment.
An Interstate Across America — For Everyone Besides Drivers, That Is — Would Pay For Itself in No Time
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A continuous cross-continental active transportation trail would pay for itself in less than five years in visitor spending alone, a new analysis argues.
There Are Just Four Types of Drivers — And Ending Car Dependency Means Reaching Them All
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There are four types of drivers in U.S. communities, a new analysis argues, and transportation leaders need to adopt distinct strategies to influence each group’s behavior on the road.
Dusk and Dawn Are Deadly for Walkers — But Traffic Pros Don’t Know the Full Extent of It
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Police wildly undercount the number of crashes that occur at dusk and dawn, a new study finds.
STEAL THIS IDEA: Canadian City Passes Next-Gen Parking Reform
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A small Canadian city just passed a package of progressive bike and car parking reforms rarely seen in a single North American community.
Study: Distracting Roadside Safety Billboards May Cause 17K Crashes A Year
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Road signs that implore highway motorists to drive carefully by reminding them of roadway death totals may actually be causing crashes because they’re too distracting, a new study finds.
Why ‘Walkability’ Scores Don’t Tell Us How Pedestrian-Friendly a City Is For Everyone
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Standard walkability metrics aren’t factoring in all the reasons why residents can’t or won’t travel by foot, a new analysis suggests.
THE BRAKE: Should Cities Train Their Own Transportation Advocates?
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What if cities offered a crash course that got both groups speaking the same language — and in the process, transformed ordinary citizens into effective and well-informed transportation advocates?
And America’s Best Bus Stop Is …
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After a nail-biting battle between two fantastic New England nominees, Portland, Maine has been crowned the winner of our America’s Best Bus Stops contest for 2022.