Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Civil Rights

The BRU Roars: Mr. President, Enforce, Restore, Expand Our Civil Rights

By Damien Newton | Jul 26, 2012 | 19 Comments

We’re the BRU. This is our fight Mass transportation is a human right We want 50 cent fares and $20 passes ‘cause mass transportation belongs to the masses –BRU Chant, heard yesterday. Hoping to leverage the importance of minority and lower income voters to President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign, the Bus Riders Union (BRU) launched […]

Separate but Eco: Livable Communities for Whom?

By Adonia Lugo and Allison Mannos | May 21, 2012 | 17 Comments

Note: The authors are active advocates in the urban sustainability movement, focusing on non-motorized transportation in low-income urban areas. As mixed race women of color, we believe that we are in a unique position to bridge the advocacy communities trying to better conditions for the urban poor and for the environment. In this series, we […]

Eyes on the Fleet: Civil Rights Stickers Posted on Metro Vehicles

By Dana Gabbard | Jan 5, 2012 | 2 Comments

A week before Christmas a decal titled “Metro Notice of Civil Rights” began appearing on Metro bus and rail vehicles. This is a response to the recent FTA Title VI Compliance Review stipulation “Metro must provide an updated Notification to the public of their rights within 30 days” (see page18). In its Civil Rights Corrective […]

Advocates Respond: What to Make of the FTA’s Civil Rights Report on Metro

By Damien Newton | Dec 19, 2011 | 2 Comments

fta civil rights compliance review for L.A Metro Over the past week, Streetsblog published four stories on the Federal Transit Administration’s report on Title VI Civil Rights violations at Metro. Most of our reporting focused on the conflict between the Bus Riders Union and Metro staff on what the report means. However, advocates around the […]

FTA: Metro Deficient in Five of 12 Civil Rights Categories

By Damien Newton | Dec 13, 2011 | 19 Comments

Yesterday, the Federal Transit Administration publicly released its Title VI Civil Rights Review of Metro that was completed earlier this year. The FTA outlines a series of deficiencies in almost half of its twelve civil rights categories. Metro insists these are minor issues that can be easily fixed while critics of the agency call the […]

Spinning a Civil Rights Complaint

By Damien Newton | Nov 3, 2011 | 7 Comments

Late last week, most likely in response to a report by the Bus Riders Union and their community allies, a letter from Metro CEO Art Leahy dismissing the Civil Rights complaints of the BRU appeared on The Source. The letter basically announced that the Title VI complaints against the agency announced last Spring were dismissed, […]

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