Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about Race

Study: Black Cyclists Die 4.5x More Often Than White Cyclists

By Kea Wilson | Jun 14, 2022 | No Comments

Black cyclists are more than four times more likely to die while riding a bike than White ones, a new study finds — and the stats aren't much better for other modes or other racially marginalized groups.

This vacant land, viewed from Norwalk's Silverbow Avenue pedestrian overpass, was more than a dozen homes. Metro and Caltrans have demolished hundreds of homes for their South 5 Freeway widening project. Photo by Joe Linton/Streetsblog L.A.

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L.A. Times Analysis Shows Racist Harms of Freeway Projects

By Joe Linton | Nov 15, 2021 | No Comments

In five states - California, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Texas - the Times found that large highway building projects demolished homes predominantly in Black and Latino neighborhoods

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Study: How We Talk About Racism in Transportation — And Why it Matters

By Sarah Brown | Sep 15, 2021 | No Comments

For too long, the rhetoric around active mobility has been deeply rooted in White supremacy, classism, and other intersecting oppressions that violate our fundamental and collective human rights.

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Families of Those Killed by LASD Describe Ongoing Harassment by Deputies as Part of a “Triple Assault”

By Sahra Sulaiman | Apr 14, 2021 | No Comments

"I don't have another life to give. I don't have any more breaths to take. I don't have any more hashtags. I don't have any more energy to be marching with my fist up in the air [only] to come back to the same thing," declared Khadijah Shabazz. "Right now, it needs to be all broken down, torn down, and started all over again."

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STUDY: How Race and Income Impact Road Safety in Oregon

By Jonathan Maus | Mar 11, 2021 | No Comments

A growing body of research has proven that incomplete and dangerous transportation infrastructure in lower-income areas has a disparate negative impact on Black, Indigenous and people of color. Now ODOT’s own analysis proves the existence of these impacts on BIPOC Oregonians for the first time.

Black and white photo of a young man looking at bulldozers clearing land

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Can a Land Bridge Restore What a Black Community Lost?

By Kea Wilson | Feb 22, 2021 | No Comments

Advocates from St. Paul, Minn. are hoping to restore some of what the Black community lost when a highway was run through their core neighborhood — and to provide an unconventional model for other communities across the country to do the same.

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