Recently added articles from Human Rights:
A View from the Bridge: Transportation and Social Context
Jul 01, 2007; Targ, Nicholas ... Earlier this summer the Interstate 35W Bridge in Minneapolis collapsed during the evening rush hour traffic. In an instant, thirteen people lost their lives, and more than one hundred were injured. The stories of loss and heroism and the dramatic pictures of the crumpled bridge riveted us as a ...
Dismantling Transportation Apartheid in the United States Before and After Disasters Strike
Jul 01, 2007; Bullard, Robert D; Johnson, Glenn S; Torres, Angel O ... Transportation provides access to opportunity and serves as a key component in addressing poverty, unemployment, and equal opportunity goals. It likewise ensures access to education, health care, and other public services. Thus, transportation equity is consistent with the goals of the larger ...
From the Back of the Bus to the End of the Line: The Discriminatory Funding of Public Transit in California
Jul 01, 2007; Marcantonio, Richard A; Jongco, Angelica K ... Equal access to every kind of opportunity-schools, jobs, health care, and affordable housing-depends on transportation. Fifty years after the Montgomery bus boycott, the local bus has become the transportation option of last resort. Today, instead of being at the back of the bus, low-income ...
Transportation Inequity in the United States: A Historical Overview
Jul 01, 2007; Brenman, Marc ... Three major kinds of infrastructure in the United States contribute to the separation of races: housing, education, and transportation. Of these, transportation receives the least attention by those interested in social justice. Yet people must get from place to place. Social mobility is an ...
On the Move: Increasing Wheelchair Accessible Taxis Around the Country
Jul 01, 2007; Garrett, Jan ... When you think of Manhattan, vivid images spring to mind: skyscrapers, the Statue of Liberty, and thousands of yellow taxicabs-thirteen thousand to be precise. Because of their ubiquity, residents and tourists alike hail them day and night to move throughout the city. But for thousands of people ...
Lessons Learned on the Paratransit Litigation Front: Equal Rights Center v. WMATA
Jul 01, 2007; Bromberg, Todd ... A recently resolved lawsuit in the nation's capital highlighted both highly abstract legal principles and intensely practical litigation tactics in a case addressing a crucial public service for those with severe disabilities. "Paratransit" is a frequent and important battleground between public ...
On the Road Again-Wait, Not You! Driver Discrimination in America
Jul 01, 2007; Kohrman, Daniel B ... If trends featured in the mainstream media reflected reality, Americans would seem poised for big changes in where they live and how they get there. Movie stars now like to pose with a Prius, not a Porsche. "Smart Growth" is all the rage in political campaigns, especially in jurisdictions ...
Watching the Watch Lists: Maintaining Security and Liberty in America
Jul 01, 2007; Franklin, Sharon Bradford; Holcomb, Sarah ... The stories would be laughable if the underlying concern weren't so serious. Senator Ted Kennedy was frequently detained at airports because his name matches that of a suspected Irish Republican Army member included on a terrorist watch list. Numerous innocent travelers, ranging from seasoned ...
Comparing British and American Approaches to the Human Right to Transportation
Jul 01, 2007; Lucas, Karen ... In the highly mobile, car dependent societies that are common to most of North America and Europe, the lack of personal transportation in low-income households is often a major factor in their economic and social exclusion. It can prevent the acceptance of employment; lead to failed health ...
A Short Line on Rail Lines
Jul 01, 2007; Silverstein, Susan Ann ... From the first railroad (Baltimore and Ohio, 1830), first subway (New York, 1904), and first monorail (Seattle, 1962) to the first public takeover of a commuter railroad (Long Island Rail Road Co., 1966), first federally subsidized intercity passenger railroad (AMTRAK, 1970), and the passage of ...
human rights heroes
Jul 01, 2007; Silverstein, Susan Ann ... Relentless Riders ADAPT Almost thirty years ago, disabled activists, along with the Reverend Wade Blank, held hostage a public transit bus in Denver, Colorado. The activists were frustrated because the lack of lifts on buses prevented them from integrating into the community. Despite the ...