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The Oakland Airport Connector: A Civil Rights & Transportation Justice Campaign

Learn about the campaign for civil rights and transportation justice in the context of the Oakland Airport Connector project. Discover the history, cost, and impact of this transportation system, and how activists fought for a better alternative.

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The Oakland Airport Connector: A Civil Rights & Transportation Justice Campaign

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  1. The Oakland Airport Connector: A Civil Rights and Transportation Justice Campaign Guillermo Mayer, Senior Staff Attorney Public Advocates Inc.

  2. 2009 Bay Area Transit Context Service Cuts! Fare Hikes! Layoffs!

  3. 2009 National Context Source: Stranded at the Station. Transportation for America/Transportation Equity Network, August 2009

  4. 2009 National Context Source: Stranded at the Station. Transportation for America/Transportation Equity Network, August 2009

  5. Bay Area: A History of Inequity

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

  7. Oakland Airport Connector • Approved by Alameda County voters in 2000. • Had been dead since 2003. Lack of private financing. • Revived by MTC’s allocation of $70M in ARRA funds.

  8. BART System

  9. ! ! The Oakland Airport ConnectorThen vs. Now Then (2000) Now (2009) . Cost: $130 million Cost: $492 million ($42M per mile) ($159M per mile) 13,540 riders (2020) 4,350 riders (2020) 6 minute trip 16-19 minute trip 2 intermediate stops No stops $4 roundtrip fare $12 roundtrip fare

  10. Millions for Airport Travelers Service Cuts for Bus Riders Oakland Airport Connector$492 million AC Transit $57 million deficit (8% service already cut; 7% more cuts planned)

  11. We Pushed for a Better Alternative $492 million vs. $60 million

  12. BART didn’t listen… but the Obama Administration did!

  13. FTA Title VI Requirement: Transit agencies must “evaluate significant system-wide service and fare changes and proposed improvements at the planning and programming stages to determine whether those changes have a discriminatory impact” on minority and low income populations.

  14. Title VI Administrative Complaint • September 2009: • Genesis, Public Advocates, Urban Habitat, and TransForm filed complaint with the FTA • December 2009: • FTA Office of Civil Rights conducts on-site investigation of BART • February 2010: • FTA issues decision

  15. What Have We Won So Far? • $70M for Transit • Opportunity to revamp BART’s approach to civil rights • Fed review of MTC’s Title VI oversight • Title VI victory echoed across the country

  16. What’s Next? • The fight is not over . . . . • Plenty of lessons to be learned

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