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Kea Wilson

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President-elect Joe Biden

Why Biden Is Right to Think Beyond the DOT in His Infrastructure Package

By Kea Wilson | Apr 13, 2021 | No Comments
Opponents of President Biden's infrastructure plan ignore that "transportation infrastructure" must include tackling our frayed social safety nets and our broken street designs.
Image: Charlie Neibergall via Creative Commons

No, We’re Not Getting a Federal VMT Tax (But Maybe We Should)

By Kea Wilson | Apr 1, 2021 | No Comments
Secretary Pete is walking back a statement that suggested a switch from a gas tax to a mileage tax — but he certainly sparked a conversation about the future of the innovative funding mechanism that's unlikely to die down soon.
Image: Gage Skidmore via Creative Commons

Five Questions About Biden’s Infrastructure Package

By Kea Wilson | Apr 1, 2021 | No Comments
President Biden revealed new details about his transformative new infrastructure package today, but sustainable transportation advocates are already questioning how much it will actually transform our national addiction to cars. 
The MUTCD is part of the reason why American speed limits are set based on how fast drivers feel compelled to go, and not how fast they should go to protect vulnerable road users. Image: Richard Drdul via Creative Commons

Advocates to Feds: We Need a New Traffic-Control Manual

By Kea Wilson | Mar 24, 2021 | No Comments
A coalition of leading transportation professionals is pushing for an overhaul of the manual that sets many of the most dangerous design guidelines for our car-focused roads — and rejecting a piecemeal public comment process that they say will only put a band-aids over the gaping wounds in our unsafe national transportation standards. 
Image: Michael Sheehan via Creative Commons

STUDY: Drivers Mostly Use Cruise Control to Speed

By Kea Wilson | Mar 23, 2021 | No Comments
"Cruise control" technology was invented to help drivers maintain a safe and steady speed — but more often, they use it to go faster than they would without it, a new study finds. 
Shawn Bradley. Screenshot from Youtube

NBA Star Shawn Bradley Paralyzed in Crash

By Kea Wilson | Mar 18, 2021 | No Comments
Former Dallas Mavericks player Shawn Bradley announced today that he was struck by a driver while riding his bike, paralyzing the NBA star and reminding America that no one is safe from our national traffic violence epidemic until we commit to ending it. 
To help put a face to the horrific statistics in the new Pedestrian Danger Index report, LaTanya Byrd gave a moving speech about the loss of her niece, Samara Banks, and her niece's three young children, Saadeem, Saasean, and Saamir, in a horrific 2013 crash. The road where they were killed — twelve-lane Roosevelt Boulevard in Philadelphia, Pa. — only received speed cameras last year, and has yet to be significantly redesigned, despite being the site of more than 700 crashes a year on average.

This Year’s List of the Most Dangerous Cities for Walkers Is Unacceptably Familiar

By Kea Wilson | Mar 10, 2021 | No Comments
Every single state in America but one has gotten more dangerous for walkers in the last two years — and the only one that didn't only managed to maintain its abysmal rate of walking fatalities, rather than reducing it.
Photo: Komonews.com

Send Us Your Nominees for the Sorriest Bus Stop!

By Kea Wilson | Mar 8, 2021 | No Comments
It's the return of our beloved contest — inspired by the NCAA's March Madness bracket!
Could this be a new dawn for transit in America? Image: Eric Kilby via Wikimedia Commons

New COVID Relief Bill Is a Strong Start To a Long Transit Recovery

By Kea Wilson | Mar 8, 2021 | No Comments
Congress is poised to give the transit industry its most significant lifeline yet in the pandemic, but it may still leave some cities struggling to make it for the long haul, advocates argue.
Image: Chuck Kennedy via PFA/Creative Commons

Buttigieg Says US DOT Should Support ‘Right-Sizing’ City Asphalt

By Kea Wilson | Mar 5, 2021 | No Comments
The 19th Secretary of Transportation may be the first in recent memory to publicly recognize that the need to remove excess asphalt from cities to meet our climate, safety and mobility justice goals.
Via USPS

No One’s Talking About the Best Thing About The New USPS Mail Truck

By Kea Wilson | Mar 2, 2021 | No Comments
If it looks like a duck ... it's probably a better-designed truck!
Bikeshare isn't always planned with seniors in front of mind — and if we're not careful, the next wave of the mobility revolution won't be, either. Image: Pixabay via Creative Commons

Why the New Mobility Revolution Leaves Seniors Behind

By Kea Wilson | Mar 1, 2021 | No Comments
Elders are being left out of the new mobility revolution — and will be more so by the time autonomous vehicles come around, a new study argues. 
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