Kea Wilson
@keawilson.bsky.social
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.
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"When our government is not just apathetic but an aggressor against our communities,... we need to resist today by creating systems of community care that get people where they need to go right now, even in the most terrible storms." @keawilson.bsky.social usa.streetsblog.org/2026/02/02/s...
Shoveling a Snowy Sidewalk Is An Act of Resistance — Streetsblog USA
Shoveling a sidewalk in winter is always a critical act of community care — but in an era of government assault on civil liberties, it's also an act of resistance.
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February 5, 2026 at 4:33 PM
"When our government is not just apathetic but an aggressor against our communities,... we need to resist today by creating systems of community care that get people where they need to go right now, even in the most terrible storms." @keawilson.bsky.social usa.streetsblog.org/2026/02/02/s...
This pubbed a week ago while I was on vacation someplace warm (yes, I did pay someone to shovel my walk while I was gone), but wrote about why mutual aid is getting more important for street safety, especially as government gets more violent.
Shoveling a Snowy Sidewalk Is An Act of Resistance — Streetsblog USA
Shoveling a sidewalk in winter is always a critical act of community care — but in an era of government assault on civil liberties, it's also an act of resistance.
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February 9, 2026 at 12:14 PM
This pubbed a week ago while I was on vacation someplace warm (yes, I did pay someone to shovel my walk while I was gone), but wrote about why mutual aid is getting more important for street safety, especially as government gets more violent.
Fellow snowbelt folks: what is your number one tip for clearing a sidewalk of snow? Having a weirdly hard time finding a guide that's specifically geared towards plowing so pedestrians of all ability levels can move comfortably and thinking about compiling one of my own.
January 30, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Fellow snowbelt folks: what is your number one tip for clearing a sidewalk of snow? Having a weirdly hard time finding a guide that's specifically geared towards plowing so pedestrians of all ability levels can move comfortably and thinking about compiling one of my own.
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"And it would also ensure that taxpayers actually get some of the life-saving benefits they've been promised by transportation officials for decades – rather than seeing their money wasted on endless highway expansion projects that never seem to reduce congestion or cut deadly crashes."
Maybe someday, more politicians will give full-throated support to multimodal transportation policies because the climate emergency demands it. But until they do: *call it a safety policy.* Because it'll have the same emissions benefit either way.
Improving Road Safety Is A Win For The Climate, Too — Streetsblog USA
Closing the notorious "fatality target" loophole wouldn't just save lives — it'd help save the human species from climate catastrophe, too.
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January 30, 2026 at 3:31 PM
"And it would also ensure that taxpayers actually get some of the life-saving benefits they've been promised by transportation officials for decades – rather than seeing their money wasted on endless highway expansion projects that never seem to reduce congestion or cut deadly crashes."
Maybe someday, more politicians will give full-throated support to multimodal transportation policies because the climate emergency demands it. But until they do: *call it a safety policy.* Because it'll have the same emissions benefit either way.
Improving Road Safety Is A Win For The Climate, Too — Streetsblog USA
Closing the notorious "fatality target" loophole wouldn't just save lives — it'd help save the human species from climate catastrophe, too.
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January 29, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Maybe someday, more politicians will give full-throated support to multimodal transportation policies because the climate emergency demands it. But until they do: *call it a safety policy.* Because it'll have the same emissions benefit either way.
ok so who's going to invite me, Kea Wilson, to moderate a panel featuring Portland mayor Keith Wilson and Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson, thereby unleashing Maximum Multimodal Wilson.
Mayor Wilson: 'We have to be the biggest bike mode city in the nation'
He made the comments at an event attended by business and tourism officials.
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January 29, 2026 at 2:07 PM
ok so who's going to invite me, Kea Wilson, to moderate a panel featuring Portland mayor Keith Wilson and Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson, thereby unleashing Maximum Multimodal Wilson.
If you need a break from The Horrors, I dug into a wonky but super important bill that would make it possible to use transportation funds to build housing and other important destinations near transit, and why TOD deserves a lot more airtime in the conversation about building livable places.
A Few Legal Tweaks Could Unlock A Mother Lode of Housing Near Transit — Streetsblog USA
It's time to help communities use federal financing to build housing near transit, a new bill argues.
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January 28, 2026 at 8:20 PM
If you need a break from The Horrors, I dug into a wonky but super important bill that would make it possible to use transportation funds to build housing and other important destinations near transit, and why TOD deserves a lot more airtime in the conversation about building livable places.
On the most basic level, transportation reform advocates need to speak out about ICE violence because it is a barrier to movement for countless migrants, brown people, protestors, and anyone else who ICE targets. But there are deeper reasons why this is our issue, too. Explored a few on the pod.
What's A Transportation Reformer's Role In the Fight Against ICE Violence? — Streetsblog USA
Migrants and protestors are being killed in the streets by ICE agents. What should transportation reform advocates do?
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January 28, 2026 at 8:19 PM
On the most basic level, transportation reform advocates need to speak out about ICE violence because it is a barrier to movement for countless migrants, brown people, protestors, and anyone else who ICE targets. But there are deeper reasons why this is our issue, too. Explored a few on the pod.
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On Saturday we ride for Alex Pretti
1:00pm at Washburn Fair Oaks Park
From Angry Catfish:
“We're asking folks to host rides and come together. Bike shops and non-profits, cycling orgs and alt cycling collectives, city and rural. We are many but we stand together as one.”
1:00pm at Washburn Fair Oaks Park
From Angry Catfish:
“We're asking folks to host rides and come together. Bike shops and non-profits, cycling orgs and alt cycling collectives, city and rural. We are many but we stand together as one.”
January 26, 2026 at 7:20 PM
On Saturday we ride for Alex Pretti
1:00pm at Washburn Fair Oaks Park
From Angry Catfish:
“We're asking folks to host rides and come together. Bike shops and non-profits, cycling orgs and alt cycling collectives, city and rural. We are many but we stand together as one.”
1:00pm at Washburn Fair Oaks Park
From Angry Catfish:
“We're asking folks to host rides and come together. Bike shops and non-profits, cycling orgs and alt cycling collectives, city and rural. We are many but we stand together as one.”
They will create a world so dangerous that you feel you have no choice except to drive a car, or own a gun, or flee a country that they violently destabilized. And they will use that car, that gun, that decision to seek asylum as an excuse to shoot and kill you.
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 PM
They will create a world so dangerous that you feel you have no choice except to drive a car, or own a gun, or flee a country that they violently destabilized. And they will use that car, that gun, that decision to seek asylum as an excuse to shoot and kill you.
I think it's pretty remarkable how, despite the trillions of dollars we've spent and the century of constant campaigning we've been subjected to in order convince us otherwise, some part of us *still knows* that car dependency is a terrible way to live, and most people still don't want it.
Survey: Most Americans Are Open To Ditching Their Cars — Streetsblog USA
Automakers have spent a century and countless trillions of dollars making car-dependent living the American norm. But U.S. resident still aren't sold, a new survey suggests.
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January 21, 2026 at 2:09 PM
I think it's pretty remarkable how, despite the trillions of dollars we've spent and the century of constant campaigning we've been subjected to in order convince us otherwise, some part of us *still knows* that car dependency is a terrible way to live, and most people still don't want it.
Does anyone know of any solid research around driving anxiety and how it impedes mobility/access? Ideally would love to look specifically about how this impacts people across different age groups, particularly seniors who can "still drive" on paper but functionally can't most of the time.
January 20, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Does anyone know of any solid research around driving anxiety and how it impedes mobility/access? Ideally would love to look specifically about how this impacts people across different age groups, particularly seniors who can "still drive" on paper but functionally can't most of the time.
Fascinated by this report, which found that the average US city is delivering transit at a *fifth* of the level that our peers in other countries are — but closing the gap could be done, in our lifetimes, with a lot less money than it cost to build the highway system.
January 14, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Fascinated by this report, which found that the average US city is delivering transit at a *fifth* of the level that our peers in other countries are — but closing the gap could be done, in our lifetimes, with a lot less money than it cost to build the highway system.
Extremely late to the party on Kim Stanley Robinson's excellent novel, Ministry for the Future, which did such a beautiful job of narrativizing both the dangers of and solutions to climate change, including the sector that we have the weakest collective imagination about (transportation.)
January 13, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Extremely late to the party on Kim Stanley Robinson's excellent novel, Ministry for the Future, which did such a beautiful job of narrativizing both the dangers of and solutions to climate change, including the sector that we have the weakest collective imagination about (transportation.)
I want to be clear here that fascistic regimes don't really need a pretext to kill people who oppose them. But we make it a whole lot easier when we force everyone into a 4,000 pound vehicle that governments can credibly claim could be weaponized at any moment, or not, as suits their purposes.
When the Government Says You're 'Weaponizing' Your Car — Streetsblog USA
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers have been brutalizing and killing people who they perceive as threats. Is mass automobility multiplying their pretext to do it?
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January 12, 2026 at 2:04 PM
I want to be clear here that fascistic regimes don't really need a pretext to kill people who oppose them. But we make it a whole lot easier when we force everyone into a 4,000 pound vehicle that governments can credibly claim could be weaponized at any moment, or not, as suits their purposes.
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Because someone in the comments asked about masculinity and car brain, I'm re-sharing this fun conversation I had with @keawilson.bsky.social at @usa.streetsblog.org
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How Does Toxic Masculinity Play Out On Our Roads — And How Do We Stop It? — Streetsblog USA
On this episode of the Brake, host Kea Wilson sits down with researcher and urban planning professor Tara Goddard to talk about how toxic masculinity plays out on our roads and what can we be done to ...
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January 8, 2026 at 4:09 AM
Because someone in the comments asked about masculinity and car brain, I'm re-sharing this fun conversation I had with @keawilson.bsky.social at @usa.streetsblog.org
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"...it's also important to remember the role that car dependency itself plays in our housing crisis, and how inextricably intertwined the two crises are." - @keawilson.bsky.social
The 'Affordability Crisis' Conversation Can't Leave Out the Cost of Cars — Streetsblog USA
We can't talk about Americans' empty wallets without talking about our empty buses and sidewalks and overall dependence on automobiles.
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January 8, 2026 at 12:56 PM
"...it's also important to remember the role that car dependency itself plays in our housing crisis, and how inextricably intertwined the two crises are." - @keawilson.bsky.social
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"less opportunity for transportation access" in plain language means "you can't go places".
Just like "less opportunity for food access" in plain language would mean "you don't have food".
Just like "less opportunity for food access" in plain language would mean "you don't have food".
This is the kind of sentence in articles about transit cuts that make me furious.
People don't just "have less opportunity for transportation access." They are confined to their homes, miss work, skip school, forgo medical care. This drives people deeper into poverty, and often, *it kills them.*
People don't just "have less opportunity for transportation access." They are confined to their homes, miss work, skip school, forgo medical care. This drives people deeper into poverty, and often, *it kills them.*
January 6, 2026 at 2:17 PM
"less opportunity for transportation access" in plain language means "you can't go places".
Just like "less opportunity for food access" in plain language would mean "you don't have food".
Just like "less opportunity for food access" in plain language would mean "you don't have food".
This is the kind of sentence in articles about transit cuts that make me furious.
People don't just "have less opportunity for transportation access." They are confined to their homes, miss work, skip school, forgo medical care. This drives people deeper into poverty, and often, *it kills them.*
People don't just "have less opportunity for transportation access." They are confined to their homes, miss work, skip school, forgo medical care. This drives people deeper into poverty, and often, *it kills them.*
January 6, 2026 at 2:01 PM
This is the kind of sentence in articles about transit cuts that make me furious.
People don't just "have less opportunity for transportation access." They are confined to their homes, miss work, skip school, forgo medical care. This drives people deeper into poverty, and often, *it kills them.*
People don't just "have less opportunity for transportation access." They are confined to their homes, miss work, skip school, forgo medical care. This drives people deeper into poverty, and often, *it kills them.*
So smart to rebrand the "Reconnecting Communities" program as "repairing" American infrastructure, by reimagining things like downtown highways as people-first places that can address housing shortages, create jobs, and more. This shouldn't be partisan; it's just good policy.
New Bill Would Help 'REPAIR' America's Worst Infrastructure — By Reimagining It For People — Streetsblog USA
The concept of "reconnecting communities" torn apart by federal infrastructure has come under fire by GOP leaders in Washington. This Senator says it's time to renew the program anyway — and more than...
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December 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
So smart to rebrand the "Reconnecting Communities" program as "repairing" American infrastructure, by reimagining things like downtown highways as people-first places that can address housing shortages, create jobs, and more. This shouldn't be partisan; it's just good policy.
Not saying anyone should hack a variable messaging sign to send a message to drivers...but if you theoretically did, we came up with some punny suggestions that are perfect for the holidays.
Denver Activists Hijack Road Signs To Decry The Dangers of Automobility — Streetsblog USA
Plus: a few suggestions for holiday-themed hackers.
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December 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Not saying anyone should hack a variable messaging sign to send a message to drivers...but if you theoretically did, we came up with some punny suggestions that are perfect for the holidays.
Heading back from my grandmother's funeral, and want to say how much I appreciate Amtrak in times like this. An affordable last-minute ticket, a comfortable seat, some comfort food from the cafe car and unhurried trip with no TSA shakedown was exactly the rest I needed in a difficult time.
December 11, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Heading back from my grandmother's funeral, and want to say how much I appreciate Amtrak in times like this. An affordable last-minute ticket, a comfortable seat, some comfort food from the cafe car and unhurried trip with no TSA shakedown was exactly the rest I needed in a difficult time.
Stoked to have a new interview with Katie Wilson (no relation), Seattle's new mayor, Transit Riders Union co-founder, and living proof that bold vision for (and wonky obsession with) transportation reform can win elections.
'I'm Always on the Bus': How Transit Advocacy Helped Katie Wilson Become Seattle's Next Mayor — Streetsblog USA
"I really think that our public transit system is such a big part of people's daily experience of government," says the incoming mayor of the Emerald City.
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December 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Stoked to have a new interview with Katie Wilson (no relation), Seattle's new mayor, Transit Riders Union co-founder, and living proof that bold vision for (and wonky obsession with) transportation reform can win elections.
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"We've already got driverless trucks...That technology is gonna explode. We have to anticipate where that technology is taking us and put together a bill that addresses it."
A technology that has exploded with limited federal support is shared micromobility - imagine if we supported it
A technology that has exploded with limited federal support is shared micromobility - imagine if we supported it
November 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
"We've already got driverless trucks...That technology is gonna explode. We have to anticipate where that technology is taking us and put together a bill that addresses it."
A technology that has exploded with limited federal support is shared micromobility - imagine if we supported it
A technology that has exploded with limited federal support is shared micromobility - imagine if we supported it
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RETVRN to traditional infrastructure.
![The Appian Way [near Casal Rotondo], one of the oldest and most important Roman roads, by Livioandronico2013 on Wikipedia.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5pghxhhzn2fcihyploqv4ijt/bafkreie27wzsf726mrstnmnxozwraajvxz4jqvphio6geylfsylvuup3li@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
RETVRN to traditional infrastructure.