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Date
12-4-2020
Description
The "right to the city" depends on the right to access the city, and U.S. regions are marked by profoundly unequal access. One of the clearest manifestations of this is the state of U.S. bus transit. Bus service is simple to improve and has vast potential to better people's lives, but has been constrained by the racist planning and politics that shape every American city.
How can we fulfill the promise of better buses and create abundant transit networks that expand access to opportunity? In this seminar, Higashide unpacks the elements of effective bus service – and cites examples from across the United States to show how elected leaders, heroic bureaucrats, and civic advocates can overcome the political challenges to achieving them.
Biographical Information
Steven Higashide, Author, Better Buses, Better Cities
Steven Higashide is Director of Research for TransitCenter, a New-York-based foundation that works to make cities more sustainable and just through better public transit. He has conducted and managed research about who rides transit and why; how tax policy influences transportation; and transit’s role in a Green New Deal. Steven previously worked as a transportation advocate in the New York area, where he worked on winning campaigns to pass legislation protecting pedestrians and cyclists, and defeat Congressional attempts to defund public transportation. His first book (named one of Planetizen's 10 best urban planning books for 2019) is Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit; and his writing has appeared in The New Republic, The Atlantic, and the Los Angeles Times. Steven holds a Masters in Urban Planning from NYU’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
Subjects
Bus lines -- Planning, Transportation -- Planning -- Social aspects, Social justice, Transportation and state, Local transit
Disciplines
Transportation | Urban Studies | Urban Studies and Planning
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/34853
Recommended Citation
Higashide, Steven, "Winning the Fight for Better Bus Service" (2020). PSU Transportation Seminars. 198.
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/34853