The Shifting Goals of Public Transportation

PODER (People Organized In Defense of Earth and Her Resources) and La Raza Roundtable are hosting “The Shifting Goals Of Public Transportation.”

Below is the event description:

Capital Metro has made major changes to transit service in Austin over the last few years. The agency has increasingly shed its social redistributive goals in favor of alleviating congestion, promoting the development of eco-districts, and exploring privatized alternatives in Austin. Disability rights activists, the homeless, and lower income and immigrant neighborhoods slated to lose bus service have raised serious concerns over this shift. Simone Yoxall will discuss the ways these changes represent a threat to the city’s most vulnerable and transit-dependent populations and intersect with other justice issues, particularly gentrification and displacement, to reproduce uneven mobilities and precarity along racial and class lines in Austin.