Like Green Jobs-Green NY, transportation is a critical nexus point between the environment and an equitable economy. Here’s an excerpt from CWF’s Dave Palmer on transportation in the Huffington Post. Read the rest here.
Working New Yorkers are off to a very rough year, and the looming closure of bus and subway lines across the city may prove the cruelest cut of all. Just yesterday, riders woke up to the news that 611 bus stops would be eliminated as part of the MTA’s austerity plan. Let there be no doubt: the burden of deteriorating transit falls disproportionately on the most vulnerable. Today there are 1.4 million workers who use public transit to reach their jobs and earn less than $49,000 a year. Worsening service is stealing time from children and elderly parents, recreation and exercise, and the civic activities–tenant associations, PTAs, religious institutions–that build strong neighborhoods.
But what’s coming down the tracks will steal more than time from working people. The elimination of student Metrocards would cost a four person family $2,300, roughly the equivalent of a month of full time childcare…
