BikePGH aims to educate and inform ourselves and supporters about the transportation experiences of underserved communities, and work collaboratively with experts and advocates to address access and mobility challenges to biking and walking in Pittsburgh.
What is Mobility Justice?
Terms like Mobility Justice, Transportation Justice, and others have been used to describe the affordability, safety, and accessibility of transportation options in a community. And importantly, mobility justice looks at who does not have access to safe, clean, affordable, and active transportation —and why.
In short, Mobility Justice, is a vision for a world rooted in social justice where everyone feels safe existing on the streets and can build lives experiencing the full joy of movement.
What does this have to do with biking and walking in Pittsburgh?
When we organize to transform streets to make biking and walking commonplace for all Pittsburghers, these streets improve the quality of life and reduce the harmful effects of car dependency. Nearly 25 percent of Pittsburgh households do not have access to a car, and we must ensure that those households have safe, clean, affordable, and convenient active transportation options.
We believe that Pittsburgh must examine our shared history of systematic inequalities and how they impact access to active mobility options. Through research, listening, and advocacy, we can reshape our streets to make them safer for all.
What is the Mobility Justice Learning Series and who is it for?
Our Mobility Justice Learning Series is for anyone who wants to actively listen to and learn from the lived experiences of marginalized people in and around Pittsburgh and hear from experts in fields, directly and indirectly, related to transportation.
Our plan for what we hope to learn and share with our supporters
- Produce blogs that address topics, directly and indirectly, related to mobility justice intending to expand our knowledge and yours.
- Work with experts to share their knowledge and experience with our staff, members, and supporters.
- Create free visual content to explain why mobility justice is essential in Pittsburgh, why we are committed to it, and why it’s important for our supporters to understand it.
- Uplift and amplify the valuable experiences and work that has already been done by sharing information with you, our audience!
- Uplift and amplify voices and stories of those in Pittsburgh who don’t have access to safe, affordable, convenient transportation options.
- Further our understanding of the transportation inequities that exist in Pittsburgh and the harm those inequities have inflicted on communities.
- Gather feedback from Pittsburghers who are experiencing those inequities and what they need to thrive in their neighborhoods.
- Seek knowledge and expertise from local and national advocates doing the work of ensuring transportation policies and projects are serving communities.
- Share how access to transportation affects every aspect of our lives including food access, housing, employment, health care, and more.
- Provide insight into how to be part of the advancing mobility justice in our communities.
- Through our grassroots advocacy initiatives, promote and support ideas and policies that result in better mobility outcomes for all Pittsburghers.
We encourage you to share topics and issues you think we should focus on in this series. We invite you to join us in this learning series and be a part of a movement for a better mobility and access system in Pittsburgh.
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