Category Archive: 'Transportation Justice'
Monday, July 7th, 2008
The City Project urges the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) to address and remedy the inequity of park access in the Regional Transportation Implementation Plan (RTIP).
We commend SCAG for directly addressing the need to improve access to park space for all, particularly low income communities, in the 2008 Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) Environmental Justice [...]
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Transit to Trails, Transportation Justice, Urban Parks Movement
Sunday, July 6th, 2008
Posted in Clean Water, Diversifying Democracy, Health and Equality, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, Schools and Communities, Transportation Justice, Urban Parks Movement
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Please help save Panhe and San Onofre State Beach and find alternatives to the proposed toll road that would devastate both. Send a letter to the Commerce Department before May 28, 2008!
Three state agencies formally oppose the toll road: the California Coastal Commission, the California Parks and Recreation Commission, and the California Native American Heritage [...]
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, Native American Sites, Save Panhe and San Onofre, Transportation Justice
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
The Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) calls for public transportation to improve access for all to parks throughout Southern California in the 2008 Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) Environmental Justice Report.
In response to public comments by The City Project and others calling for healthy parks, schools, and communties, SCAG conducted additional and new analysis on access [...]
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Health and Equality, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, Schools and Communities, Transit to Trails, Transportation Justice, Urban Parks Movement
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
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The voices of state park supporters across the state [...]
Posted in Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, Olmsted Vision, Transportation Justice, Urban Parks Movement
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Transit to Trails visited the Wishtoyo Foundation’s Chumash Demonstration Village Project in Malibu on April 26, 2008.
The Village will consist of the creation of an outdoor working Native American village on a four-acre site at Nicholas Canyon County Beach in Malibu, creating the only living Chumash cultural village of its kind in Southern California.
Transit to [...]
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Free the Beach!, Health and Equality, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, Heritage Parkscape, L.A. River, Native American Sites, Olmsted Vision, Transit to Trails, Transportation Justice, Urban Parks Movement
Monday, April 21st, 2008
Transit to Trails takes inner city youth and their families and friends on fun mountain, beach, and Los Angeles River trips. The project enriches their education about water, land, wildlife, and cultural history, and the importance of physical activity and healthy eating for life-long health.
Transit to Trails will kick off the 2008 season with a [...]
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, Heritage Parkscape, Native American Sites, Olmsted Vision, Transit to Trails, Transportation Justice, Urban Parks Movement
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Health and Equality, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, Heritage Parkscape, L.A. River, Olmsted Vision, Public Art, Schools and Communities, Transit to Trails, Transportation Justice, Urban Parks Movement
Monday, April 14th, 2008
Chicano Park reflects the struggles, hopes, and triumphs of communities coming together for equal justice, democracy, and livability for all by using parks as organizing tools to bring people together.
Chicano Park was founded on April 22, 1970 — the same as the first Earth Day — when the community of Barrio Logan joined activists to [...]
Posted in Baldwin Hills, Diversifying Democracy, Heritage Parkscape, L.A. River, Public Art, Transportation Justice, Urban Parks Movement