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Race and transportation in the United States are closely linked.
When roads, especially highways of the Interstate Highway System were being built, they were often built straight through neighborhoods populated primarily by people of color, especially African Americans, even when a white neighborhood or other alignment (such as an old railroad track) would be more direct, requiring residents' homes to be demolished, [1] or built to separate white neighborhoods with neighborhoods populated primarily by people of color. In some cases, highway revolts were started, to protest said construction.
Public transit in the United States, especially local buses, and to a lesser extent passenger rail, have a huge stigma associated with them, specifically that they are mainly used by poorer people, especially racial minorities, who have no other way of getting around, which creates obstacles for funding, as well as implementation, such as local opposition to buses running to richer areas and malls on the grounds that it would bring criminals to the area. [2] [3] [4]
On the other hand, many forms of public transit (primarily heavy or light rail, streetcars, bus rapid transit and park-and-ride buses), in addition to walkability and bike lane projects, have been accused of gentrification at the expense of people of color. [2]
Policing on many city transit systems, including New York City Transit, is often unfairly biased towards people of color, particularly Blacks and Latinos.
Minorities are regularly underrepresented in public transit leadership, despite being overrepresented (in most cases) in lower-level staff and system ridership. This causes issues.
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Race and transportation in the United States are closely linked.
When roads, especially highways of the Interstate Highway System were being built, they were often built straight through neighborhoods populated primarily by people of color, especially African Americans, even when a white neighborhood or other alignment (such as an old railroad track) would be more direct, requiring residents' homes to be demolished, [1] or built to separate white neighborhoods with neighborhoods populated primarily by people of color. In some cases, highway revolts were started, to protest said construction.
Public transit in the United States, especially local buses, and to a lesser extent passenger rail, have a huge stigma associated with them, specifically that they are mainly used by poorer people, especially racial minorities, who have no other way of getting around, which creates obstacles for funding, as well as implementation, such as local opposition to buses running to richer areas and malls on the grounds that it would bring criminals to the area. [2] [3] [4]
On the other hand, many forms of public transit (primarily heavy or light rail, streetcars, bus rapid transit and park-and-ride buses), in addition to walkability and bike lane projects, have been accused of gentrification at the expense of people of color. [2]
Policing on many city transit systems, including New York City Transit, is often unfairly biased towards people of color, particularly Blacks and Latinos.
Minorities are regularly underrepresented in public transit leadership, despite being overrepresented (in most cases) in lower-level staff and system ridership. This causes issues.
cloaf
was invoked but never defined (see the
help page).