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Mary Wisniewski

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Photo: John Greenfield

Pickups and SUVs are driving the pedestrian death epidemic. But the tide may be turning.

By Mary Wisniewski | Jun 8, 2022 | No Comments
While big vehicles are safer for people on the inside, they're more deadly for those on the outside. But there's a movement to require safer automobile designs and create disincentives to owning oversized vehicles.
Photos, clockwise: Jeff Zoline, Mary Wisniewski, John Greenfield, John Grenfield

Can we humanely improve conditions on the ‘L’? Here’s what’s happening in SF, NYC

By Mary Wisniewski | Feb 25, 2022 | No Comments
Now is not the time for the nation’s second-largest public transit system to go backwards, with conditions that scare people away people from using buses and trains.
Proposed routes for the Crosstown Expressway. The image on the left was the layout protesters fought against. Images: Chicago Tribune via transportation historian Andrew Plummer

Remember the Crosstown? Here’s the story of Chicago’s successful 1970s freeway revolt

By Mary Wisniewski | Jul 12, 2021 | No Comments
The Crosstown plan threatened to ram a multi-lane highway through the heart of the city, but fired-up residents helped stop it.
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