Adonia Lugo: Bicycle Advocates Need to Stop Overlooking Issues of Race and Class
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Lugo's new book "Bicycle/Race" argues that bike planning discussions must take "human infrastructure" into account.
Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Equity
6 Principles for a Transit System That Makes Your City More Fair and Just
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Transit should be a great social equalizer. In many cities, however, transit's potential to advance economic fairness is held in check because resources are distributed inequitably.
“I Can’t Go Everywhere that I Thought I Could Go”: When Black and Brown Cyclists Need Safety from More than Traffic
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“I knew where I was,” muses Slimm, the 25-year-old road captain from the Los Ryderz Bike Club regarding his fateful decision to roll past 65th on Broadway – the heart of East Coast Crips territory, “but I was just riding by…” Keeping track of whose territory you are in is key to survival for many […]
The Case for Fare-Capping
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Low-income people shouldn't have to pay more per ride than people who can afford unlimited transit passes.
How Structural Racism at Regional Planning Agencies Hurts Cities
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Your regional planning agency is probably set up to favor the suburbs.
Mobility Justice Advocates Gather in Leimert Park for Untokening California
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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.