Equity
Streetsblog California
How Structural Racism at Regional Planning Agencies Hurts Cities
Your regional planning agency is probably set up to favor the suburbs.
January 5, 2018
Mobility Justice Advocates Gather in Leimert Park for Untokening California
She had had enough of hearing her community spoken about in offensive ways by well- (and not-so-well-) meaning planners and advocates, enough of giving 110 percent of herself only to realize a fraction of what she put forward was being seen as having value, enough of how disinterested those with power over what happened in marginalized communities remained in the larger picture, and enough of being tokenized.
November 13, 2017
Santa Ana Active Streets Is Building an Equity-Centered, Resident-Led Transportation Coalition
Herein a short history of the founding of SAAS and what makes it distinct from transportation advocacy groups in other parts of the country, including some of the guiding principles that helped form the coalition.
October 20, 2017
The Persistent Racial Disparities of Motor Vehicle Pollution
While tailpipe emissions have been lowered across the board, racial disparities persist in exposure to fine particles from motor vehicles.
October 17, 2017
Equity in Infrastructure in the Trump Era: A Conversation Hosted by ACT-L.A. and PERE
We are not having some of the larger, city-wide conversations we need to be having about what development should look like going forward or what it will take to ensure that it is inclusive, holistic, and just.
September 25, 2017
Shreveport Mayor Votes to Bulldoze a Black Neighborhood to Build a Highway
Mayor Ollie Taylor sided with economic development consultants, and against the wishes of her constituents living in the Shreveport neighborhood of Allendale.
August 23, 2017
Let’s Stop Booking Majority-White Panels on Citywide Transportation Issues
If you can't find anyone to sit on your panels who isn’t white, you need to reevaluate what your year-round connections to communities of color look like.
August 22, 2017
Legislative Update: Equity on the CTC
A.B. 179 tries to ensure that the concerns of people affected by transportation projects—not just those who use them—will be represented on the California Transportation Commission. But the bill has been softened to a statement on the need for diversity.
July 21, 2017
When a Progressive Community Fails to See Its Own Biases, Bullying and Bigotry Get a Pass
So I resorted to the sincere query that I’ve made to him on several occasions, namely: Help me understand why consideration of the needs of the most vulnerable among us - particularly lower-income black and brown communities - is so offensive to you?
May 9, 2017
