Just Transportation
Just Transportation Dismantling Race and Class Barriers to Mobility Edited by Robert D. Bullard and Glenn S. Johnson As the environmental justice movement gathers momentum, it is becoming...
...Throughout the book, there is an obvious tension between two facets of the transportation issue: while people of color and low-income communities are frequently faced with inadequate public transportation options (thereby severely limiting their schooling and work choices), they also bear the brunt of other citizens' reliance on nonpublic transport, being forced to cope with congested streets, polluted air, and communities bisected by new highways and overpasses...
...Through this diversity, the reader gains a strong sense of how transportation issues permeate our entire culture—particularly any bureaucratic decision making related to mass transit...
...Just Transportation, a collection of essays edited by Robert D. Bullard and Glenn S. Johnson, explores this issue in a thorough, informed, and enlightening manner...
...AG) Stony Creek, CT: New Society Publishers, 1997...
...The essays each take a different tack, examining the issues from the perspectives of cities, communities, and grassroots coalitions...
...Just Transportation Dismantling Race and Class Barriers to Mobility Edited by Robert D. Bullard and Glenn S. Johnson As the environmental justice movement gathers momentum, it is becoming increasingly obvious that people of color and low-income communities are burdened with a disproportionate share of our country's environmental and health problems...
...Although toxic-waste issues have probably been the most publicized, achieving a just and equitable distribution of the benefits and the burdens of our transportation system is an equally troubling and far-ranging challenge...
...In addition to its thorough information about a vital and lesser-discussed aspect of the environmental justice movement, the book provides case studies and activist profiles that have the potential to inspire action in other similarly troubled communities...
...193 pages...
Vol. 2 • June 1998 • No. 3
