Equity
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
Streets Need to Be Safe for Black Lives
June 1, 2020
Poor and Black ‘Invisible Cyclists’ Need to be Part of Post-Pandemic Transport Planning Too
As states and workplaces prepare to open up after the lockdown, many people are looking for alternatives to public transit to get to work.
May 28, 2020
MBTA Takes Small Steps to Improve Fare Equity
Boston's transit overseers approved some small-but-significant changes in the agency’s fare policies at a meeting last week to improve fare equity for minority and low-income riders.
May 27, 2020
