Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Mobility Justice

How ‘Community Mobility Rituals’ Can Transform Neighborhoods

By Streetsblog | May 24, 2022 | No Comments

On this episode, host Kea Wilson sits down with Olatunji Oboi Reed of Equiticity to talk about "community mobility rituals," or regular, free, hyper-local events that dismantle barriers to sustainable transportation and build the social infrastructure that neighborhoods need.

Houses next to the Claiborne Expressway in Treme, New Orleans. (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

Cracking the Code on Fighting Highway Expansion Projects

By Amy Stelly | May 18, 2022 | No Comments

"Treme and the 7th Ward, like many neighborhoods across the country, are saddled with an aging, unsafe, polluting piece of highway infrastructure. We have to do something about it."

Sustainable Transportation Advocates Need to Talk About Abortion Access

By Kea Wilson | May 3, 2022 | No Comments

Our auto-centric transportation system already poses a barrier to abortion care — and the likely rollback of the constitutionally protected procedure could make that hurdle virtually insurmountable for countless U.S. residents, advocates say.

A protest against the Lower Manhattan Expressway, 1968.

Freeway Fighters Across the U.S. Are Joining Forces — And They Want You

By Kea Wilson | Apr 27, 2022 | No Comments

America's midcentury freeway revolts never really stopped — and now, the advocates behind them are joining forces to create what may be the largest organized national effort to prioritize communities over highways yet.

What’s In the US DOT ‘Equity Action Plan’ — And What’s Missing

By Kea Wilson | Apr 21, 2022 | No Comments

A new federal action plan to advance "equity" in the transportation realm includes concrete commitments to reform a transportation network that too often disenfranchises marginalized people — but it doesn't go far enough, some say.

Study: Car Ownership Doesn’t Always Cut Black Workers’ Commutes

By Kea Wilson | Apr 20, 2022 | No Comments

It still takes Black workers 22 minutes longer to get to work every week than their White counterparts — it's probably not possible to speed up those commutes in urban areas with automotive strategies alone.

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