Via the Urban Habitat Newsletter:
Obama Administration Holds Up Oakland Airport Connector Stimulus Funds over Civil Rights Complaint!
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We need your help to cement this victory. Please join us at:
The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) meeting on Wednesday, January 27th at 10am. 101 Eighth Street, Oakland, CA
Federal Transit Administration says BART plan “insufficient.. on many fronts”
Allies- Today [...]
The Baltimore Accessibility Maps Web Site lets you create a series of accessibility maps for Baltimore Transportation Analysis Zones. You can compare access to services (Retail, Office or Industry) for all TAZs or for a specific neighborhoods (e.g. West Baltimore). You can compare access to services by private car vs. public transport.
Read more here. [...]
As part of a groundbreaking environmental justice program funded by Caltrans, California’s transportation authority, two Bay Area transportation organizations will receive an environmental justice planning grant. Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and the Northern California chapter of the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials (COMTO) will be implementing the grant, which is designed to increase community [...]
Just Us: Dying on Bartlett.
This video exploring Environmental Justice issues in the Baltimore area is the newest addition to the EJKit video library.
By DIONNE WALKER
Associated Press Writer
Posted: Oct. 27 5:28 p.m.
Updated: Oct. 27 9:30 p.m.
ATLANTA — Environmental and racial justice activists from six states met with federal Environmental Protection Agency officials Tuesday to demand a revamp of the agency they accuse of overlooking years of chronic environmental missteps in minority communities across the South.
That includes the dumping [...]
Environment, Justice, and Health in the Planning Process: Strategies for Maryland
Morgan State University Saturday, October 3rd, 10am – 3:15pm
Please join the Maryland Commission on Environmental Justice and Sustainable Communities. along with other officials and community and business leaders, for a detailed look at the connections between and use, public health, and the environment. This one-day [...]
Understanding and Abiding by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Video courtesy of The Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department.
Featured Website: Baltimorphosis.com
Baltimorphosis.com is a cool site analyzing various plans and options for the redevelopment of the 16 block Franklin-Mulberry expressway in Baltimore.
From Baltimorphosis.com :
Once upon a time, In a proud American city, there was a neighborhood with a traffic problem. Doorsteps were barely an arms length from the traffic flooding downtown. The city [...]
Via the Maryland Daily Record:
JOE NATHANSON
Special to The Daily Record
June 9, 2009
What would West Baltimore’s infamous “highway to nowhere” have in common with an MTA bus depot located in East Baltimore? The Route 40/Franklin-Mulberry corridor highway tore through established neighborhoods in the 1970s. The planned connection to Interstate 70 was never finished and the incomplete [...]
Lisa P. Jackson, President Barack Obama’s choice to head the Environmental Protection Agency addressed the third anual State of the Environmental Justice in America 2009 coference this past friday via video. Administrator Jackson called on grassroots movements in the US to “help build a 21st century sustainable infracstructure.”
A video of Jacksons address is available on [...]
