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> Though Parks’s work ranged from defending political prisoners to anti-war activism, she is.. [most] remembered for her contribution to transit equity. Refusing to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger, her arrest sparked the 1956 #MontgomeryBusBoycott. The 13-month boycott ended with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling: public bus segregation is unconstitutional.
> ... she engaged in fighting for dignity, democracy, and racial justice until the day she died.
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Sustaining Rosa Parks’s Struggle For Transit Equity

Every February, the Labor Sustainability Network coordinates Transit Equity Day, a nationwide day of action that highlights the importance of equitable

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> In 1956, the same year of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, President #Eisenhower signed the #FederalAidHighwayAct, investing billions into the interstate system.. infrastructure policy and.. investments — cementing.. a “car country.”
> Car-centric infrastructure continued to receive billions.. while allocations for public transit were restricted to “capital investments” (i.e., new buses or rail lines).. funds had to come from local and state governments — leaving public transit.. underfunded.
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> In 2022, [#USA] federal spending on roads totalled $52 billion. We could transform public transportation with a fraction of that sum.
> A 2020 analysis by the Urban Institute suggests that, with an additional $16.7 billion annually in federal funding, we could bring transit service in every U.S. urban area up to that of the Chicago region — doubling per-capita transit service throughout the country.
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> Determining access to employment, education, medical care.. transit is at the nexus of #inequality. In fact, one Harvard study found that #CommuteTime is the most important factor in determining whether an individual can escape poverty. Yet this also means that, by reforming public transit, we can make significant progress on many fronts at once... peer-reviewed healthcare journals.. found that.. “expanding existing bus routes can serve as rapid investments to improve health outcomes.”