Transportation Justice
 Fighting for Transportation Justice
Executive Director Robert García has co-authored "Crossroad
Blues: the MTA Consent Decree and Just Transportation," a
chapter in Running
on Empty, a book on transportation justice
edited by Professor Karen Lucas. Mr. García was a key member
of the legal team in the historic environmental justice class
action case, Labor/
Community Strategy Center vs. Los Angeles County Metropolitan
Transit Authority, in which the Los Angeles County Metropolitan
Transportation Agency agreed to invest over $2 billion to improve
the bus system and lower bus fares, the largest civil rights
settlement ever. The chapter chronicles this historic struggle
and its aftermath.
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 Public Transportation to Local National Forests
There is virtually no good way to reach the four Southern California
forests using public transportation according to Public Transportation
to Local National Forests (1.6 MB [PDF]), a study by the
University of Southern California Department of Geography that
documents the need for improved public transit to diversify support
for and improve access to the four forests in Southern California.
The Southern California National Forests constitute four of the
most urban-influenced forests in the United States, serving an
increasingly diverse population of over 20 million people who live
within an hour's drive of the four forests. However, people of
color and low-income communities in Southern California disproportionately
lack access to a vehicle to drive themselves and their families
to the four forests in Southern California. Without adequate public
transportation, many of these residents are denied access to the
forests.
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Read more about Family Forests.
The L.A. Riots and a Testament of Hope
The article "Rodney King
Legacy and a Testament of Hope," by Executive Director
Robert García published by the American Bar Association demonstrates
that urban issues such as transportation, parks, and recreation
are genuine civil rights issues of race, poverty, and democracy
that are interrelated in Los Angeles and the American economy.
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Justice.
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