“Transportation Justice: From Civil Rights to the Right to the City”

This essay argues for a change of approach toward thinking through transportation equity, particularly in terms of the Right to the City. To see transit in these terms is to spend less time ferreting out the racists and more time challenging the political economy of cities themselves. As the legacy of the Montgomery bus boycott suggests, where the demand is for civil rights alone, we risk simply winning the front seat on a sinking ship. Instead, we might take a more radical tack and make more capacious anti-racist demands for robust public services.