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Transportation as a Civil Right Guillermo Mayer , Public Advocates Bob Allen , Urban Habitat

Transportation as a Civil Right Guillermo Mayer , Public Advocates Bob Allen , Urban Habitat www.publicadvocates.org www.urbanhabitat.org. Transportation: A Cornerstone of Civil Rights. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896). Transportation: A Cornerstone of Civil Rights.

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Transportation as a Civil Right Guillermo Mayer , Public Advocates Bob Allen , Urban Habitat

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  1. Transportation as a Civil Right Guillermo Mayer, Public Advocates Bob Allen, Urban Habitat www.publicadvocates.org www.urbanhabitat.org

  2. Transportation: A Cornerstone of Civil Rights Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

  3. Transportation: A Cornerstone of Civil Rights Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)

  4. Foundation of Civil Rights • Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits recipients of federal funding from discriminating on the basis of race, color, or national origin.

  5. Civil Rights and EJ President Clinton’s Executive Order 12898 on Environmental Justice requires that federal agencies (and subrecipients): “make achieving environmental justice part of their mission by identifying and addressing, as appropriate, disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects of its programs, policies and activities on minority populations and low-income populations in the United States…”

  6. Civil Rights and Transportation • Low income communities and minority communities are protected against: 1) Intentional Discrimination 2) Discriminatory IMPACTS • LIC and Minority Communities have a right to a voice in transportation decisions.

  7. Transportation JusticeFundamental Questions: • What are the benefits and burdens of transportation investments? (highways, transit, facilities, ports, airports) • Who benefits? • Who is burdened? • Are the benefits and burdens equitably shared?

  8. Transit Investments = ACCESS to Opportunity

  9. Transit Beneficiaries

  10. Dimensions of Transit Equity: Availability Reliability Affordability Safety Language & Physical Access Amenities Environmental Impacts

  11. Case Study: Los Angeles Labor/Community Strategy Center v. Los Angeles MTA

  12. Public Transit Ridership 1994 6% Bus 버스Autobús Rail/Suburban Trains 94%

  13. Racial Composition on the Bus, 1994 White Black, Latino, API 60% of bus riders have incomes below $12,000 60% of bus riders are women

  14. Racial Composition on Rail & Suburban Trains, 1994 White Black, Latino, API, Indigenous

  15. MTA $3 BillionBudget Distribution 1994 Rail/Suburban Trains Bus

  16. 1996: BRU + MTA Sign a Consent Decreea legal contractthat obligates MTA to improve the bus system by reducing overcrowding, maintaining low fares, and adding new service

  17. Over $2.5 billion redistributed to low-income Black, Latino, Asian/Pacific Islander and white bus riders • 1,800 new replacement buses, more than 560 additional buses (no diesel, all clean fuel) • Largest Clean Fuel Fleet in the country • Over $1 million annual bus service hours added • Saved Monthly Pass, added Bi-Weekly and Weekly Pass (1st in the country), & 75-cent Night Fare

  18. Case Study: Bay Area

  19. MTC’s Transit Expansion Program ($13.5 billion total)

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