Kea Wilson
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Four Ways ‘Automobility’ Shapes Our Lives — Besides Crashes and Climate
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Te violence of car culture extends far beyond the obvious outrages of car crashes, pollution, destroyed communities and structural racism.
Report: Climate Goals Impossible Unless Sustainable Transport Claims 40 Percent of Mode Share
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City residents must massively increase the percentage of journeys they take on public transportation and using active modes within 10 years if the world is going to meet its climate targets, a new report argues.
COP26 ‘Transport Day’ Ignores Everything But EVs
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The agenda for “transport day” at the international climate conference in Glasgow was dominated almost entirely by electric cars.
How the New Infrastructure Deal Will Make Transit Better
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Transit advocates were pleased that the $1.2-trillion infrastructure package that passed Congress allocated $39 billion for mass modes, though they worried that investment would be dwarfed by $110 billion for highways.
It’s Time for America to Talk About Bike Parking
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A historic commitment to increase bike parking in Paris has U.S. advocates wondering why cycle storage doesn’t get the same level of attention in American cities — and sharing policy strategies that could help.
Four Ways to Keep Kids Safe From Traffic Violence This Halloween
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Families are encouraged to get outside and trick-or-treat for the first time since the pandemic began, but advocates are urging them not to ignore another public health threat: traffic violence.
Why Your City’s ‘Vision Zero’ Plan Needs ‘Direct Vision’
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The drivers of the biggest vehicles on U.S. roads can’t even see many of the people in their path — and cities could be doing more right now to stop blind-spot deaths, a recent panel of experts argued.
U.S. Cities Have More Car-Free Households Than You Think
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Even the most transit-poor U.S. cities have significant numbers of neighborhoods where almost no one drives, new research suggests.
New ‘Induced Demand’ Calculator Shows Exactly How Much Driving Your City’s Highway Expansion Will Encourage
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A groundbreaking new calculator gives advocates the tools they need to instantly show the real impacts of proposed highway expansions in their communities — and the experts behind the project hope that transportation agencies will someday be required to use it, too.
Kerry Warns Budget Bill Delay Will Hold Global Climate Goals Hostage
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Centrist bickering over the size of the Democrats’ budget reconciliation will have dire consequences for key international climate goals, U.S. climate envoy John Kerry warns.
America’s Most Toxic Car Ads: Dodge Truancy v. Mercedes Benz E-Class
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Today, we’re looking at two spots that might initially seem like opposites: a nostalgic ode to the 1980s NASCAR aesthetic, and a starry-eyed love-letter to an autonomous driving future that America is nowhere near achieving.
America’s Most Toxic Car Ads: Aggressively American Edition
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We’re finishing off our first round of competition with two ads that give a salute to America … or at least one very specific, aggressively toxic version of it.