{"id":2499,"date":"2022-01-06T20:23:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T20:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/?p=2499"},"modified":"2022-01-07T01:54:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T01:54:28","slug":"social-justice-effect-2021-transportation-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/social-justice-effect-2021-transportation-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Justice Effect.  2021  Transportation Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What&#8217;s happening? Transportation policy experts say that 2021 transportation policies have added a distinct element of social equity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is this important? Transportation policy now uses phrases like \u201cuniversal basic mobility.\u201d We&#8217;ve talked about cities eliminating fees for transportation in the heat of the pandemic and beyond. It isn&#8217;t limited to L.A., it is also Kansas City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How will this be important? \u201cThe return on investment for compassion, for empathy, for social equity \u2026 far outweighs the return on investment in concrete and asphalt. What do you want to invest in?\u201d Robbie Makinen, CEO of the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority in Kansas City, Mo. The experts sy this change in transportation policy mindset is just beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.governing.com\/community\/2021-set-public-transit-towards-equitable-accessible-future?utm_campaign=Newsletter%20-%20GOV%20-%20Daily&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;_hsmi=198896725&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8GHKDfbDDxP85lxPpYY6SpSxIBXRyolAvsjCC7-j2Bvahp1iRurjqH-xs2ILXLErEjCmEI5Qj3Kl4EJq7WHcRjuona9g&amp;utm_content=198896725&amp;utm_source=hs_email\">Government Technology | 2021 Set Public Transit Towards Equitable, Accessible Future<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s happening? Transportation policy experts say that 2021 transportation policies have added a distinct element of social equity. Why is this important? Transportation policy now uses phrases like \u201cuniversal basic mobility.\u201d We&#8217;ve talked about cities eliminating fees for transportation in the heat of the pandemic and beyond. It isn&#8217;t limited to L.A., it is also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2507,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499\/revisions\/2507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}