Comments on: Race in Transit http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2009/03/21/race-in-transit/ Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:27:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: CW http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2009/03/21/race-in-transit/#comment-754 CW Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:16:08 +0000 http://thetransportpolitic.com/?p=1726#comment-754 This issue needs to be explored and addressed by transit and urban administrators - soon. It gets to one of the major limitations of public transit in the US, and not just in the south. That said, I have not come across any articles that deal with the topic in transit trade magazines. Of course, it is not just race, but class as well. Often that concession can weaken the perceived impact of the problem, though. This issue needs to be explored and addressed by transit and urban administrators – soon. It gets to one of the major limitations of public transit in the US, and not just in the south. That said, I have not come across any articles that deal with the topic in transit trade magazines. Of course, it is not just race, but class as well. Often that concession can weaken the perceived impact of the problem, though.

]]> By: JoeC http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2009/03/21/race-in-transit/#comment-753 JoeC Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:05:40 +0000 http://thetransportpolitic.com/?p=1726#comment-753 Thanks for the interesting article - in the early 1990's I visited a friend in Atlanta and picked up MARTA's bus map, wchih had a very interesting note for one of the northwest suburban areas ( a separate county from Atlanta, I think) to the effect that the only transit service provided was for "domestics" - e.g. the African American maids. No genaral transit for the entire community - all windy suburbans streets - was shown. Also, on the same trip, I took Amtrak's Crescent from Washington in coach. My car was completely full, and I was the only white peson, and only one of three men in the car. White passengers in the south (at the time) apparetnly traveled only in first class. But when i took the SIlver Star from eastern Georgia to DC in the late 1990's, coach was somewhat more integrated. Perhaps the differnce was that one train went through Alabama and Mississippi, while the other originated in Florida, whcih seems to have a slightly better history of integration. Thanks for the interesting article – in the early 1990′s I visited a friend in Atlanta and picked up MARTA’s bus map, wchih had a very interesting note for one of the northwest suburban areas ( a separate county from Atlanta, I think) to the effect that the only transit service provided was for “domestics” – e.g. the African American maids. No genaral transit for the entire community – all windy suburbans streets – was shown.

Also, on the same trip, I took Amtrak’s Crescent from Washington in coach. My car was completely full, and I was the only white peson, and only one of three men in the car. White passengers in the south (at the time) apparetnly traveled only in first class. But when i took the SIlver Star from eastern Georgia to DC in the late 1990′s, coach was somewhat more integrated. Perhaps the differnce was that one train went through Alabama and Mississippi, while the other originated in Florida, whcih seems to have a slightly better history of integration.

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