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Senior editor + advocacy journalist at Streetsblog USA covering the movement to end universal car dependency. Based in STL, reporting nationally. Tips to: kea@streetsblog.org or kwilson.52 on signal. Opinions are my own.
Wrote about a company that's trying to give folks who want to buy used e-bikes an alternative to the sketchy craigslist ad or the local bike shop that has two bikes in stock, and how this whole market could become a lot bigger as trump's trade policy reshapes the industry.
Trade wars in Washington are having a chilling effect on the U.S. bike market. Could selling more used cycles fill the gap?
Between the co-founder of the transit riders union leading the race for Seattle mayor and Zohran "free buses" Mamdani becoming the clear frontrunner for mayor of NYC, do you think is transportation reform officially becoming a winning campaign issue? What other cities have candidates like this?
NEW // Katie Wilson Leads Bruce Harrell in Early Primary Election Results www.theurbanist.org/2025/08/05/k...
# Urbanist-endorsed progressive challenger Katie Wilson is off to a fast start in her bid to unseat Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell, leading by nearly 1,300 votes on primary election night. Urbanist-endor...
Steal photos like this and use them at community meetings. Most of us sharing this content don’t care about credit for those types of usage, we care about change.
Leaders need to understand that bike lanes aren’t just for the able-bodied. These are mobility lanes for all.
Ein modernes Radwegenetz fördert Mobilität – weit über das Fahrrad hinaus 🇳🇱❤️👨🏼🦽
This 👇 is not normal and represents billions of dollars in important safety projects that are not getting built — and might never get built unless we address the root problem.
"As of April 2025, the U.S. Department of Transportation had yet to sign formal agreements for a stunning 41 percent of the funding promised to communities under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act." @usa.streetsblog.org @keawilson.bsky.social usa.streetsblog.org/2025/08/04/t...
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was slow to get money out the door even before the current president threw the process into chaos. This must change.
Right, which is why I think it's important for us to build power as safety advocates so we can exert similar influence. But totally appreciate how we got to where we are/why we've spent as much time as we have fighting for more (for now) politically feasible discretionary programs.
I tried to break down the complexities of how messed up the IIJA roll out has been in the simplest terms I could, but the bottom line is: we need to fight to have the values we care about baked into the core programs that fund transportation, not shunted off to the side in little grant programs.
Yes, the Trump administration has been illegally withholding key transportation funds for incredibly messed up ideological reasons. And: they are also doing it in perfectly legal ways that expose some serious failures around how we fund transportation in this country that we need to fix.
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was slow to get money out the door even before the current president threw the process into chaos. This must change.
we knew Chappell Roan was going to be on a train in this, but I am trilled to report that she also rides a citibike
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I'm not saying you never have to inconvenience motorists to get to Vision Zero — but I might go so far as to say most of the time, you don't. And we do not do ourselves any favors as a movement when we pretend that it's always Our Lives vs. Their Comfort, because that's just blatantly not true.
Bus and bike lanes fight congestion, which makes driving suck less! Land use reforms that make it possible for people to walk means that even avowed drivers get a convenient neighborhood grocery store! This stuff benefits everyone, even if decades of misinformation has convinced us otherwise!
