Transit Equity Access
Presentation:
Boston 54% unwelcoming to AA
1974 - Busing begins
- Race distributed evenly across city
Lynch gangs & riots before busing especially in Charlestown & Dorchester
1983 4.5% managers and supervisors are Black
2017 it’s 4.6%
When improving our bus system, train system, development these are the things that you are working with.
How do you build with private for-profit companies, TNCs, AVs that are going to be equitable? You can’t/it won’t be
We can’t build tech/systems without talking about these segregation/intesectionality/race issues
Transit is a Health and Human Service
How do you undo these things?
There shouldn’t be only one person of color, only woman in a room.
How do we get past our liberal image? How do we get a full spectrum of housing?
It’s important to show up to these meetings.
There is a risk to showing images like this b/c of the community we live in.
Questions:
How do we better build in the narrative about what we do?
How do you have better engage in the communities?
- Bring in these people who are in the community, not just rely on academics
- MTN: Boards are somewhat political,
- Why do you have to have a degree to do planning.
- Work Experience is valuable
Diversity in the Universities
- Harvard is the worst
- MIT not better
- State Schools, it’s pervasive.
Operators of MBTA is the most diverse
- Females are a majority
The further up you go within MBTA is less and less diverse
Depts that work best are the ones that have been operators vs ones that are all advanced degrees
When Planning boards don’t represent their populations it doesn’t represent the populations they govern.
Problems hiring at the T, why can’t there be more value placed on more diversity in hiring. Yes
- budget for hiring diverse applicants
- Recruiting from garages, middle schools/high schools, maintenance facilities.