By LNS Transit Organizer Bakari Height
Our annual Transit Equity Day featured people from around the country taking action for better, more reliable, and more equitable transit. Our livestream for the event also showcased many little-known local transit justice initiatives. For example, I interviewed organizers from both North and South Carolina in the Carolina Transit Roundtable about their transit progress and problems. They emphasized that both states are near the bottom of the list when it comes to collective bargaining. This means that transit workers rarely get a chance to voice their views on the issues plaguing our transit systems. We will continue to follow up with these groups when we host our LNS Convergence in Charlotte in October. To watch the replay of Transit Equity Day live, please click here. We also featured our newsletter editor Jeremy Brecher talking about the chapter on transit in his new book, The Green New Deal from Below!