STUDY: Streetcars Symbolize the Dangers of ‘Colorblind’ Transit Planning
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Transit can be a powerful tool for mobility justice — but if we're not deliberate, it can be a tool for reinforcing white supremacy, too.
Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about Racial Equity
Study: Transit Is Failing Non-White Night Shift Workers
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Mass transit is a lifeline to opportunity for low income Americans. But most of them live in neighborhoods that are poorly served by buses and trains — especially at night.
Top Highway Safety Org Recommends Reform in Traffic Policing; Activists Say We Need Abolition
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An influential transportation safety organization recommended ways to cut racism from traffic policing — but stopped short of advocating to get police out of traffic enforcement altogether.
How to Remake Streets for Kids During COVID-19
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Cities need to keep their youngest residents safe, healthy, and learning in their own neighborhood thanks to a pandemic that is putting roughly 80 percent of U.S. students on remote learning. Here's how.
Despite Months of Protests, NHTSA Still Thinks Cops Can Make Cyclists and Peds Safer
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There's just one thing missing from the federal agency's "idea book" on enhancing police support for road safety : any acknowledgement of the existence of violent structural racism.
Why Every City Needs to Learn the Three A’s of Equitable Pedestrian Planning
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Only 40 percent of pedestrian master plans commit to concrete goals to actually reduce equity disparities.