Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Equity

Slimm, 25, Los Ryderz member, on his bike in Ted Watkins Park in Watts. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

“I Can’t Go Everywhere that I Thought I Could Go”: When Black and Brown Cyclists Need Safety from More than Traffic

By Sahra Sulaiman | May 2, 2018

“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

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 9, 2018 | 28 Comments

Low-income people shouldn't have to pay more per ride than people who can afford unlimited transit passes.

Regional planning agencies (also known as metropolitan planning organizations) are structured to disempower racial minorities. Chart: Brookings

How Structural Racism at Regional Planning Agencies Hurts Cities

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 5, 2018 | 20 Comments

Your regional planning agency is probably set up to favor the suburbs.

Untokening Co-founder Naomi Doerner listens to a participant during the Policy/Advocacy/Power workshop at the Untokening California convening November 4. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

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Mobility Justice Advocates Gather in Leimert Park for Untokening California

By Sahra Sulaiman | Nov 10, 2017

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.

Oboi Reed announces the new group at yesterday's launch party. Photo courtesy of Equiticity

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Oboi Reed Launches Equiticity, a New Group to Push for Mobility Justice Nationwide

By John Greenfield | Nov 6, 2017

Their first project is to bring dockless bike-share to Chicago's South and West Sides.

Even after decriminalizing fare evasion, racially discriminatory fare enforcement on Cleveland's HealthLine persisted. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Cleveland Police Enforcement of Transit “Proof-of-Payment” Ruled Unconstitutional

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 2, 2017 | 63 Comments

Proof-of-payment speeds up bus service. But leaving enforcement up to police can violate passengers' rights, a Cleveland judge ruled.

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