Now is the time to fight for policies that support a transportation system that truly centers the communities it’s meant to serve
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Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 Introduction 4
- Chapter 2 More Transportation Choices Are Key to the Climate Transition 6
- A Highway-Centered Approach Makes It Harder to Reduce Climate Emissions 6
- What Would This Country Look Like with More Transportation Options? 9
- More Transportation Options Lead to Trillions of Dollars in Potential Benefits 11
- Chapter 3 Car-Dependence Is Not an Accident 15
- State and Local Governments Have Played a Role in Transportation since the Beginning 15
- Privatized Turnpikes Go Bankrupt, Rural Roads Fall into Disrepair, and Government Steps In 16
- Federal Policymakers Made Key Commitments to Car Dependence in the 1900s 16
- The Interstate System and the Highway Trust Fund 17
- The Government Finally Funds Transit but at a Much Lesser Level than It Does Cars 17
- Promising Practices Emerge in the Modern Era of Transportation, but We Continue to Invest in Car Dependence 19
- A Broader Look at Transportation Funding 21
- The Public Pays Dearly for the Status Quo 21
- The Auto, Oil, and Road-Building Industries Benefit Most from the High Cost of Transportation 23
- Industries That Benefit Most Lobby for the Status Quo 24
- Chapter 4 When Some of Us Can’t Get Around, We All Suffer 26
- Transportation Should Connect, Not Divide 26
- Industry Profits from the High Costs of Car Ownership 28
- Grassroots Feature: Fighting for Affordable and Fair Transit Service in Boston, MA 31
- Alternatives for Community and Environment in Roxbury 33
- Alternatives for a Just, Mobile Future 35
- Grassroots Feature: Rural Utahns Want More Transportation Options Like Transit 37
- Utah Has Not Invested Much in Transit outside of the Wasatch Front 37
- A Future Transportation System That Serves Everyone, including Nondrivers 39
- Grassroots Feature: The Movement for Communities over Highways in Shreveport, LA 41
- Then In Came the Highways 42
- Allendale Strong Has Been Building Community for over a Decade 43
- We Deserve a Future without the Harms of Highway Expansion 45
- Chapter 5 Policy Recommendations: Prioritize People before Highways 47
- Greatly Expand Transportation Options 47
- Make Transportation Decisions through an Equity and Climate Lens 48
- Make Decisionmaking More Democratic, Accessible, and Equitable 50
- Increase the Freedom to Move, Together 50
