Walking the Walk – More EJ in Oxford
I’ve only been in Oxford for two weeks now, but I’m in love. Why? The city planning and public transit here seem to make a huge difference, compared to what I regularly see in LA and NYC, in racial integration, accessibility of jobs and healthy foods, and overall health. I can’t tell you how many [...]
November 14, 2009
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Christine · 
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Tags: City Planning, public transportation, Racial Integration · Posted in: Youth Training Institute
Who’s the greenest?
The foreign born residents or the native born resident? Ali Modarres wrote an article titled, “Immigrants are ‘Greening’ our cities, How about giving them a break?” In the article, Modarres writes about how immigrants are ‘greening’ our cities by using public transportation. Meanwhile, native born residents have lived in the United States for a longer [...]
August 16, 2009
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Tags: green, immigrants, public transportation · Posted in: News
TRPT and the National Day of Action
Last Wednesday, the Transit Riders for Public Transportation campaign took action all over the United States. Big cities such as Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, Portland, Chicago and Atlanta participated in the rally. The motivation for the day of action was to get Congress Representatives to co-sponsor H.R. 2746 which is a bill introduced by [...]
August 2, 2009
· Monte · Comments Closed
Tags: BRU, federal government, politics, public transportation, transit, TRPT · Posted in: Events
Bus Stop
I waited for my friend at the bus stop on Crenshaw at Stocker (Baldwin Hills-Crenshaw Mall) for about 45 minutes on Sunday. During my wait, I witnessed a living validation of the many theories we have discussed at greenRELAY this summer. Massey and Denton’s discussion of an oppositional Culture of Segregation and the cycle of [...]
July 30, 2009
· Christine · 6 Comments
Tags: community, police state, public space, public transportation, Segregation · Posted in: Stories
MTA Board Meeting
I woke at 6:40 AM to attempt to attend a meeting that started at 9:30 PM. I just have to say that if public transportation was easier to use that I probably could have gotten up at 7:45. If the MTA trip planner which I attempted to use was better I wouldn’t have wasted so [...]
July 28, 2009
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Tags: MTA, public transportation · Posted in: Events
Bus Riders Union press conference
The BRU had a press conference on June 29, 2009 for the release of the Clean Air and Economical Justice Plan (CAEJP) policy paper. The policy paper explains what the CAEJP is and goes into detail about the amount of money nedeed to adopt the CAEJP and how it would cut travel time, increase ridership, [...]
July 24, 2009
· Cesar · 5 Comments
Tags: bus riders union, civil rights, environmental justice, global warming, mass transit, photos, public transportation · Posted in: News
Weapons of Mass Production
This NBC-LA article entitled “Move Over, Prius: Meet the Raptor” discusses a determined NorCal man who built his own fully electric car when he no longer wanted to pay for gasoline: “I can do what GM couldn’t” (or wouldn’t) – mass produce the electric car. I admire this man’s can-do attitude and his decision to [...]
July 9, 2009
· Christine · One Comment
Tags: 1000 more buses 1000 less police, Cars, Environmental Racism, Los Angeles Budget, public transportation, Urban Sprawl · Posted in: News
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