Kea Wilson

Why Anti-Trans Laws Are Terrible For Transportation, Too — Streetsblog USA A disturbing new Kansas law revokes trans people's driver's licenses. Here's how it will make our communities more dangerous.

IDK who needs this, but here's a breakdown of why Kansas' anti-trans driver's license law is bullshit, why this is absolutely a transportation reform issue, and how cruel and dangerous it is to make people in car dependent places choose between legal driving and not denying their basic identities.

This is fucked and if you’re a “street safety” person this is absolutely your issue

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.

"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...

How to convert a bike into a snow plow Across most of the US and Canada right now, cities are digging themselves out from the first “snowmageddon” of the winter. Highways and streets are getting plowed. Pedestrian sidewalks are getting sho...

Also inspired by DIYers like this. If you have other examples, lmk.

...though IMO really, we should be funding more programs that would make sidewalk clearance a government responsibility.

+ a few links. Minneapolis has the best snow clearance guide of any municipality I've seen; the *least* a government can do is give residents good guidance on how to take care of sidewalks.

Much like resisting violent political systems, clearing snow off sidewalks is a skill that communities can develop together. Every storm can make us stronger, or it can bury us. And even when we feel most powerless, we still get to decide which."

We can even be the ones who hit the phones and fight for the while the young and able-bodied are out there sweating in the snow.

We can remind them to clear from curb to curb, and not to wear a coat when they're about to overheat, and how much and what kind of salt to use. We can put together the neighborhood fund for the community-owned electric snow blower, or the DIY bike lane plow.

And if we can't safely shovel, we can find other ways to resist, too. We can organize our neighbors who *can* plow, and make sure they understand how to do it both safely and well.

Whether we clear our sidewalks of ice so immigrants and protestors can outrun ICE violence, or so the octogenarian down the block can walk her dog without fear of a deadly slip, plowing is a way to reclaim our collective power, and an opportunity to create the kind of community we want to live in.

"If we're able, shoveling a sidewalk in winter is one of the most concrete and impactful ways that we can do to resist a government whose actions are actively eroding our collective right to free movement — and literally clear a path to other kinds of resistance, too.

A few grafs towards the end got cut for length that included some concrete tips on shoveling + supporting neighbors who do when you can't, so I'm adding them here:

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.

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.

"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."

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.

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.

If he could change his first name to something that starts with a "K" that'd be ideal but if not he's still welcome

Yes 👏 more 👏 Wilsons👏

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

A flyer that says we ride in unity, for all for Alex, with Alex’s face on it Saturday 1/31 1:00 meet 130 roll Wagshburn fair oaks park Ride together stand together

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.”

*constant atrocities

Maybe you follow me because I write about transportation reform advocacy and you just don't see these connections. Maybe you need to hear that Alex Pretti was a cyclist in order to feel called to resist this. At this point, whatever; *just do whatever you can to resist this.*

I've spent my career being called an alarmist or naive because I believe that traffic violence (like gun violence and the violent expulsion of immigrants) is not only not inevitable, but creates prime conditions for *all of this.* They conditioned us to accept content atrocities, and we got them.

Part of how fascists get into power is by creating an environment of violence so extensive and deep-rooted that people feel there is no choice but to surrender their power to a violent state that claims they'll quell it. And then that state uses that violence as a pretext to kill you.

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.

The TLDR: nearly 70 percent of people these researchers surveyed either already had, were strongly interested in, or were open to the idea of living car-free. In US communities, which routinely punish people for living car free with death and indignity.

Now: imagine if we didn't punish them.

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.

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.