Transportation Equity
What is Transportation Equity?
Accessible, affordable transportation is critical to the lives we live. Residents of communities of color and poor White communities, whether rural or urban, must travel to obtain better jobs, secure educational opportunities and get quality health care. Too often competing interests result in transportation policies that unintentionally leave low-income Americans stranded. To achieve equity in transportation policy, we need to craft and catalyze strategies that help rural and urban communities of color get the investments needed to spur mobility in every sense of the word.
Blog Posts:
- 4/9/15 – Access to Public Transit Is A Matter of Racial Equity
- 3/27/15 – Five Things the Bike Movement Can Do to Move Toward Racial Equity
- 1/20/15 – What the U.S. Department of Transportation Can Learn from Leaders of Color in the South
- 2/13/12 – Choosing the Path to Prosperity
Media:
- 2/7/15 – MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry – Public Transportation Barriers Help Maintain Inequality
- 7/24/14 – Times-Picayune – Better Transit Is the Path to Progress in New Orleans
- 2/15/13 – MSNBC’s The Cycle – Public Transportation Leads to More Job Creation
- 2/15/12 – MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry – Transportation at the Heart of First-Class Citizenship
