The inside story of how Portland, Oregon, tried to address decades of racist transit policies

Dec 21 2022 by Fast Company

A task force sought to not only make improvements to the transportation system, but also make significant investments in Black and Indigenous communities.

Black residents in Oregon’s largest county, Multnomah County, are almost twice as likely as their white counterparts to die as a result of a traffic accident, according to a 2021 report. The report goes on to explicitly link these results to both the discriminatory policies and the history of systemic racism in the city of Portland and...

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