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Kevin Xu Shen 沈志文

@kevshen.bsky.social

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transportation, policy, planning, and onwards. 🚌 fighting for clean air and a just world. now at @UCSUSA, recently at @MIT. he/him. views my own.

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Kevin Xu Shen 沈志文 @kevshen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Some more specifics on the programs here --

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Kevin Xu Shen 沈志文 @kevshen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The cuts hit transit and rail hardest -- funds that would go towards e.g. MBTA's Green Line upgrades or Chapel Hill's North-South BRT... or programs that fund projects like Amtrak's new Frederick Douglass Tunnel in Baltimore.

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Kevin Xu Shen 沈志文 @kevshen.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

"That feeling when you step outside your apartment on a sweltering hot summer day only to be hit smack in the face by the heat and stifling smell of diesel exhaust from a delivery truck"... The Clean Deliveries Act can keep us healthy --⚡🚚 @electrifyny.bsky.social earthjustice.org/experts/rach...

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Kevin Xu Shen 沈志文 @kevshen.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Thank you to @vanhollen.senate.gov and @fetterman.senate.gov for reintroducing the Moving Transit Forward Act 🚌🚇, which would create a much needed federal program to fund increased transit service across the country. www.vanhollen.senate.gov/news/press-r...

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Kevin Xu Shen 沈志文 @kevshen.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Meanwhile, the trucking industry has the audacity to advocate for contributing even less by taking out the federal excise tax, and pointing the finger at everyone else to make up the difference.

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Kevin Xu Shen 沈志文 @kevshen.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

One of the big topics these past couple months was regressivity- I pulled some national data to check it out: The sources that passed are less regressive than the Senate-proposed retail delivery fee, but still tax poor people at higher rates.

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Kevin Xu Shen 沈志文 @kevshen.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Key take on NEPA: we must protect it from current attacks, and much more is needed, especially for harmful projects like highway expansions. The current process gives a crucial route to public engagement, but depends on if a project is deemed to have "significant impacts", often a subjective Q.

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Kevin Xu Shen 沈志文 @kevshen.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

On Thursday at noon ET, I'll be speaking with folks at ACE and CLF about our report Freedom to Move -- and what the fight looks like on the ground in Massachusetts for more transportation options. See you there? RSVP: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Flyer for Freedom to Move webinar on Thursday 2/27 from 12-1:15PM ET

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Kevin Xu Shen 沈志文 @kevshen.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

At #TRBAM? Come stop by our booth 1128 and learn about how to use your expertise to push for a sustainable and just transportation system to help all of our communities thrive!

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