Transportation Justice

The sprawling, disconnected modern U.S. city, where the wealthy live in peripheral suburbs and the working class lives in the center, has created a kind of "transit apartheid," according to participants at last weekend's Future of Transportation Conference in Los Angeles. SUVs on their way to and from the 'burbs commit drive-by pollution, while inadequate funding reduces transportation options for those in the city core. Activist Ansje Miller describes the ideas and energy presented at the conference and, unusual for environmental gatherings, the diversity of voices.