Recent Streetsblog LA posts about equity

L.A.'s transit workhorse: the Metro bus. Photo via Wikimedia

Advocates Call for Metro’s NexGen Bus Re-Org to Invest in World-Class Bus Network

By Joe Linton | Mar 21, 2019 | 1 Comment

Advocates are calling on Metro's NextGen Bus Study to invest in the bus network, to improve equity and transparency, to coordinate with cities, and to study how to expand service.

Monday, February 11, a man was detained and handcuffed by USC's Department of Public Safety for riding on Washington Boulevard without a bike light. According to the officer who conducted the stop, the man requested to be allowed to sit down because he has a bad back. Screen grab from Facebook live video streamed by Estuardo David Mazariegos.

Handcuffing of Cyclist by USC Public Safety Raises Questions about Tactics, Oversight, Accountability

By Sahra Sulaiman | Mar 1, 2019 | 7 Comments

USC Public Safety Officers cuffed a man riding without a light, questioned him about warrants, and told him LAPD would be asked to come run a warrant check

What Projects Should Be Accelerated for the 2028 Olympics? How Can These Advance Equity?

By Joe Linton | Feb 8, 2019 | 14 Comments

For 2028 Olympics project acceleration to foster equity, don't speed up highway projects. Instead focus on improving the bus system.

Javier "JP" Partida talks to 7-year-old Sammy, son of a childhood friend and one of the next generation of riders Partida hopes his club, Los Ryderz, can reclaim streets for. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

Los Ryderz Celebrate Six Years of Community-Building in Watts

By Sahra Sulaiman | May 10, 2018 | 1 Comment

It's tough love, to be sure. But the love couldn't be more genuine, and the members of the club have always known it.

Equality is not equity. Image orginally by Craig Froehle

Metro Approves Equity Platform

By Joe Linton | Mar 2, 2018 | 1 Comment

Metro's equity framework commits the agency addressing historic and present inequalities, largely defined by race and class - as well as age, gender, disability, and residency

The South Central bike shop where cops pulled up and ordered Anthony to get up against the wall. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

Webinar on Policing and Mobility Underscores Struggle of Urban Planning to Center Justice

By Sahra Sulaiman | Feb 9, 2018 | 9 Comments

There is no way forward without a genuine reckoning with the costs that structures empowered to hold blackness at bay continue to exact from people of color.

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