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Kea Wilson has more than a dozen years of experience as a writer telling emotional, urgent and actionable stories that motivate average Americans to get involved in making their cities better places. She is also a novelist, cyclist, and affordable housing advocate. She previously worked at Strong Towns, and currently lives in St. Louis, MO. Kea can be reached at <a href="mailto:kea@streetsblog.org">kea@streetsblog.org</a> or on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/streetsblogkea">@streetsblogkea</a>. Please reach out to her with tips and submissions.

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Pittsburgh Study: What If Your Every Mode Of Transit Was Free For A Year?

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The 3 Secret Ingredients To Building Bike Networks Fast

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Pittsburgh Bridge Collapse Underscores Urgent Need For Fix-It-First Policy

Angie is a Cleveland-based writer with a background in planning and newspaper reporting. She has been writing about cities for Streetsblog for six years.

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Bicycling

UPS Kicks Off Year-Round E-Trike Delivery Service in Pittsburgh

Clarence Eckerson Jr. is the Director of Video Production for NYCSR&#8217;s StreetFilms and producer of bikeTV. He loves the color purple, chocolate chip cookies, and enjoys walking, biking, and taking transit. He has never owned a driver&#8217;s license.

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Mayor Bill Peduto Wants to “Leapfrog” Your City on Bicycling and Livability

Need to Add a Bike Lane to a Bridge? Experiment Like Pittsburgh Did

Payton Chung is Editor at Large of Streetsblog USA. He first addressed a city council about smart growth in 1996, accidentally authored Chicago&#8217;s inclusionary housing law, and sees the promises and perils of planning every day as a resident of &#8220;beautiful as well as sanitary&#8221; Washington, D.C.

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Bicycle Infrastructure

Four Mayors on Why They’re Building Out Their Cities’ Bike Networks

Michael Andersen writes about housing and transportation for the Sightline Institute. He previously covered bike infrastructure for PeopleForBikes, a national bicycling advocacy organization.

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Pittsburgh Business Leaders See Bikeways as Cure for Road-Space Shortage

Tanya became Streetsblog&#8217;s Capitol Hill editor in September 2010 after covering Congress for Pacifica Radios Washington bureau and for public radio stations around the country. She lives car-free in a transit-oriented and bike-friendly neighborhood of Washington, DC.

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