Equity Archives — Page 21 of 34

Op-Ed: Rush Hour Is Over – So What Comes Next?

If we keep equity, sustainability, public health, and livability as our guiding principles, we can build a better world, even if it looks a little different than our vision from a few months ago.

Christian MilNeil

May 26, 2020

Op-Ed: Rush Hour Is Over – So What Comes Next?

Streetsblog NYC |Bill de Blasio

Vendors Must Be Included in Outdoor Dining Push

How the "al fresco" movement could help under-served — and often harassed — immigrant-owned businesses.

Street Vendor Project

May 19, 2020

Streetsblog Chicago |Bicycling

Creating a Body-Inclusive Cycling Community

A person's body size or weight has no bearing on their worth as a human being. Bike culture should reflect that.

Courtney Cobbs

May 14, 2020

Streetsblog Chicago |Bicycling

Equity, Open Streets and the Murder of Ahmaud Arbery

For Black and Brown people to feel completely safe walking, biking, or just existing in public space, we need to make fundamental changes in the way our society is structured.

Courtney Cobbs

May 11, 2020

Streetsblog Massachusetts |COVID-19

‘Essential’ Work Demands Put Areas of Color at Risk

While much of the nation is staying at home to minimize the risks of COVID-19 transmission, the essential workers who continue to deliver our basic needs are still commuting to their jobs. That puts them at risk.

Christian MilNeil

April 27, 2020

Streetsblog NYC |E-bikes

MUST-WATCH: ‘Delivery Guys are Not Trash’ — They’re Heroes

If you watch nothing else today, please watch this four-minute video by producers Jon Hsu and Law Chen featuring New York's hard-working delivery cyclists.

Streetsblog

April 24, 2020

Coronavirus

Op-Ed: Mobility Justice Amid COVID-19

Collectivism is the only way we will survive this moment. A manifesto from the Untokening network.

The Untokening

April 15, 2020

Streetsblog Massachusetts |COVID-19

Study: Highway Pollution Contributes to Higher COVID-19 Death Rates

A new nationwide study from Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health suggests that people living in neighborhoods with higher levels of fine particulate air pollution are more likely to die from COVID-19 infection than patients from areas with cleaner air. That’s especially concerning for many of communities of color in Massachusetts, where the legacies […]

Christian MilNeil

April 7, 2020

Streetsblog Los Angeles |Equity

Vending in the Time of Corona: an Elotera Who Can’t Afford to Stay Home is Attacked

Vendors across the city wonder how they will feed their families; a Street Vendor Emergency Fund aims to help.

Sahra Sulaiman

March 31, 2020

Streetsblog Chicago |Bicycling

10 Ways To Make Transportation Cheaper And Equitable

Making transit, walking, and biking, safer and more convenient would help residents keep more money in their pockets for savings or to stimulate the local economy.

Courtney Cobbs

March 4, 2020

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