Bringing racial equity into transit planning for the Chicago region
By Steve Bynum

Bringing racial equity into transit planning for the Chicago region
By Steve Bynum
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Transit has long been designed to support the white American work commute, but what if transit was planned with a focus on racial and social equity and rider utility? Reset explores how President Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure package can push Illinois to commit to regional transit planning through an equity lens.
GUESTS: Audrey Wennink, director of transportation at Metropolitan Planning Council
Olatunji Oboi Reed, president & CEO at The Equiticity Racial Equity Movement
Rochelle Jackson, transportation/infrastructure committee chair at The North Lawndale Community Coordinating Council (NLCCC)