Sustainability and Environmental Justice

Project last updated April 22, 2009

Planning, analysis and organizing in support of environmental justice

The Pratt Center supports grassroots organizations and movements that push the New York City region toward environmental sustainability and equity by opposing policies and practice that unfairly burden low- and moderate-income communities.

COMMUTE

Project last updated May 6, 2009

Communities United for Transportation Equity

COMMUTE is a coalition of New York City community groups that initially came together in 2007 to make congestion pricing work for working families, by advocating for the use of congestion pricing revenues to finance mass-transit investments benefiting underserved communities and low-income commuters.

COMMUTE is now continuing its work to promote mass-transit investments for inadequately served low-income New Yorkers. The Pratt Center is coordinating COMMUTE and providing supporting research.

COMMUTE members include:

Bus Rapid Transit: A Transportation Revolution at a Bargain Price

Issue Brief last updated May 27, 2009

Working with COMMUTE, a citywide coalition of community organizations working for transportation equity, the Pratt Center analyzed commuting patterns, the location of large employment centers, and existing bus routes to develop a proposal for a citywide bus rapid transit network. The Pratt Center's analysis has informed the New York City Department of Transportation's and MTA's current plans for rolling out bus rapid transit.

PrattCenter-BRT-IssueBrief.pdf

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