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Equiticity’s Community Mobility Rituals,

as vehicles to reduce hyperlocal violence.

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New Policies, New Systems, New Moves:

Operationalizing Racial Equity in Sustainable Transportation

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Introduction

Olatunji Oboi Reed

President & CEO, Equiticity

773-916-6264

Oboi@equiticity.org

@theycallmeOboi

@equiticity

Website: equiticity.org

Link-In-Bio: eqty.info/m/Oboi

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The Equiticity Racial Equity Movement

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Reality Check

“Urban transit systems in most American cities, for example, have become a genuine civil rights issue—and a valid one—because the layout of rapid-transit systems determines the accessibility of jobs to the black community. If transportation systems in American cities could be laid out so as to provide an opportunity for poor people to get meaningful employment, then they could begin to move into the mainstream of American life. A good example of this problem is my home city of Atlanta, where the rapid-transit system has been laid out for the convenience of the white upper-middle-class suburbanites who commute to their jobs downtown. The system has virtually no consideration for connecting the poor people with their jobs. There is only one possible explanation for this situation, and that is the racist blindness of city planners.”

~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“A Testament of Hope”, essay published posthumously in January of 1969