Transportation Updates

July 24, 2007
 Federal Government Reviews MTC's EJ Record

FTA/FHWA Hold Certification Hearing and 15 TJWG Members Testify

Members of the Transportation Justice Working Group, MTC's Minority Citizens Advisory Committee and other residents spoke about MTC's lack of compliance with Federal Environmental Justice and Civil Rights Laws.


March 24, 2007
Climate Change and Equity Presentation

Urban Habitat co-presented with the Director of the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative Director, Nia Robinson, at the Transportation and Land-Use Coalition's 2007 Annual Summit.  The presentation focused on how low-income communities and communities of color in the Bay Area contribute the least to climate change and yet are most adversely impacted by climate change and the land-use and transportation patterns that propel climate change.  The presentation concluded with various efforts underway to address both equity and climate change.  Download the pdf of the presentation!

For the actual power point version of the presentation, contact our Transportation and Housing Associate Lindsay Imai on our contact page.  

Leaders from Bay Area grassroots organizations and the Minority Citizens Advisory Committee (MCAC) to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) addressed  the media regarding MCAC’s Environmental Justice (EJ) Principles which MTC has so far refused to adopt and implement.  Immediately following the press conference, the MTC Legislation Committee will meet to vote on whether to adopt the full set of four EJ Principles....more

December 20, 2006 

On the Montgomery Bus Boycott anniversary, UH, Public Advocates and CBE Release "MTC, Where Are Our Buses?" Press Release   |  View a  PDF of the  full report.