Equity
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Study: AVs May Not Detect Darker-Skinned Pedestrians As Often As Lighter Ones
Driverless cars are worse at detecting darker skin pigments, meaning that autonomous vehicles might not solve the already disproportionate pedestrian death toll faced by black communities, according to a new study.
June 17, 2020
How to Address Anti-Black Racism in Urban Planning
June 14, 2020
Study: For Nearly Half of Drivers, Threat of Police Enforcement Doesn’t Deter Texting
An over-focus on enforcement poses unconscionable dangers to black residents — and it doesn't even deter many dangerous drivers.
June 12, 2020
Safe Routes to School Drops Recommendation of Police Enforcement
Black activists have long maintained that police presence is a barrier to the safe use of the streets for Black children. Now, a major national program is listening — and making big changes.
June 10, 2020
Maine Police Threaten Streetsblog Editor at His Home, Reference His Calls for Police Accountability On Twitter
Police in Portland, ME are alleging that Streetsblog editor Christian MilNeil committed an act of vandalism against a police substation — but they did not disclose this when they harassed him at his home, and MilNeil says he is innocent.
June 9, 2020
New Trump Executive Order Will Pollute Black Communities
By dismantling key environmental protections, Trump is empowering cities to build highways through black neighborhoods — a heinous form of environmental racism that has killed countless Americans.
June 8, 2020
Houston’s I-45 Project is More ‘Urban Renewal’ Racism
Racist highway policies of the 1940s and 1950s are still with us today.
June 8, 2020
What Legacy Will You Leave for Racial Justice?
June 5, 2020
Protests Lay Bare Structural Racism in Transit Policing
June 4, 2020
PoC Leaders Demand Anti-Racism from Transportation Community
BIPOC leaders have long urged antiracist action from their white counterparts — but those calls have gained particular urgency in the wake of the recent murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Here are helpful resources from three top leaders.
June 3, 2020
