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Link to the full January-April 2025 issue here. Introduction – Transportation Equity This P&R special issue on transportation equity reveals historical continuities and discontinuities in transportation infrastructure policy and action from the early 20th century through today. Collectively, the authors explore how the power of federal transportation investments have … [Read more...] about Poverty & Race Journal (January-April 2025)

Link to the full January-April 2025 issue here. Debris spreads like the scattering of bones on the seabed, coral growing around the long history of bodies jettisoned. This is a myth. The artist must imagine a biblical calamity. The truth is that, soon, sand will cover all evidence, soon, even the ancestors singing deep in the ocean will not be heard. Soon, in the … [Read more...] about The Remnant (January-April, 2025 P&R Journal)

Link to the full January-April 2025 issue here. by Sheila Somashekhar, Kathryn Howell, and Gerrit-Jan Knaap For the past decade, the Purple Line Corridor Coalition (PLCC) has focused on one question: what does it take to make a multi-billion dollar transit project work equitably for communities along the line? The coalition is a broad and organized response to a planned … [Read more...] about Making Transit Investment Work for Communities in Maryland (January-April 2025 P&R Journal)

Link to the full January-April 2025 issue here. by Mariia V. Zimmerman When I started writing this article in early February 2025, the assaults on the equity work of the Biden administration were fresh. I had served as part of the senior executive leadership team at the US Department of Transportation (USDOT), and my job included guiding much of this work. I have been … [Read more...] about Transportation Equity: A Serious Turn in the Federal Road as Trump Administration Takes Aim at Reversing Years of Progress (January-April 2025 P&R Journal)

Link to the full January-April 2025 issue here. by Aaron Golub, Alex Karner, Gabriel Quiñones-Zambrana Title VI and transportation planning overview The federal laws that govern major planning and infrastructure development processes have historically offered opportunities to improve planning processes and project outcomes. While there is no specific federal statute … [Read more...] about Using Title VI to challenge discriminatory transportation investments: Looking back and looking forward (January-April 2025 P&R Journal)