Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Racial Equity

Road Death Rate Worse for Blacks, Indigenous People

By Kea Wilson | Jun 23, 2021 | No Comments

The U.S. is still failing to make meaningful progress to end the decades-long racial disparity in fatal car crash rates across modes, a new study finds — and things got worse during the pandemic.

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STUDY: Bike Lanes Don't Cause Displacement

By Kea Wilson | Jun 21, 2021 | No Comments

The installation of new protected infrastructure for bicyclists is not associated with the displacement of people of color or of low-income urban residents, a new study reveals.

Image: Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit, CC

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Where People of Color Can't Access Opportunity

By Kea Wilson | Jun 17, 2021 | No Comments

Even the most transit-rich cities in America are significantly less accessible without a car for the low-income and people of color, a new analysis finds.

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Another View on Traffic Fines

By Kea Wilson | Apr 29, 2021 | No Comments

Does automated enforcement always make our streets safer? Or do the traffic fines they spit out simply send poor drivers into a spiral of poverty, lost mobility, and even incarceration, without necessarily saving the lives of many vulnerable road users?

Another section of I-5. Image: Curtis Gregory Perry via Creative Commons.

Advocates Sue to Stop Racist Portland Highway

By Kea Wilson | Apr 6, 2021 | No Comments

Advocates in Portland, Ore. have sued to stop the expansion of an urban renewal era highway project — and possibly writing the next page in the playbook for fighting bad urban freeway redesigns across the U.S.

Young Marvin Anderson watches the destruction of his neighborhood to make way for I-94. More than half a century later, he's leading an effort to rebuild some of what the historically Black Rondo region lost. Courtesy: Reconnect Rondo

Can a Land Bridge Restore What a Black Community Lost?

By Kea Wilson | Feb 19, 2021 | No Comments

Advocates from St. Paul, Minn. are hoping to restore some of what the Black community lost when a highway was run through their core neighborhood — and to provide an unconventional model for other communities across the country to do the same.

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