Transit Equity Day Family Fair! Sat Feb4 Watsonville Central Plaza 10am - 3pm. Take the bus free.
EVENT DETAILS
www.EquityTransit.org/transit-equity-day-2023/
BUS Metro is offering FREE fares to riders to all of the Transit Equity Week Events
National Transit Equity Day is February 4th, recognized on Rosa Parks' birthday for her pivotal role in combating racial segregation on public buses, trains and trolleys. Equity Transit is sponsoring a week of activities honoring this national coalition event
Local organizations including Regeneracion, the Community Bike Collective, Ecology Action, SCC Friends of the Rail and Trail, and many other organizations will be there to agitate, educate, and organize. Royal Dutch Bicycles will have a small fleet of electric bikes people can test ride for free. My Mom’s Mole will be have their food truck on site with tasty food for sale.
At 1:45 pm, Felipe Hernandez, our new District4 Supervisor, Vanessa Quiroz-Carter, Watsonville City Council member, and other members of our community (see bios on the event web page) will speak about their experiences and how together we can grow public transit that serves our entire community and make our streets safe for everyone.
Have your kids bring their bikes. Ecology Action is hosting a Bike rodeo! There will be free bike equipment, tune-ups, organizations providing bike lights, bike equipment, environmental information, help for fixed income families to get signed up for a free bike, and much more. Learn about new trails in Watsonville and throughout the county. Join us in making our streets safe for everyone, our kids walking and biking to school, our elderly, our community members with disabilities, all of us!
National Transit Equity Day is February 4th honored Rosa Parks' birthday for her pivotal role in combating racial segregation on public buses, trains and trolleys and recognizes that public transit is a civil right! Public transit provides a lifeline for many in our community to get to work and school and access opportunity. Access to robust public transit benefits everyone and our environment.
Come join the fun at the Family Fair Feb 4th!
A lack of robust, equitable transportation is a major barrier to education, jobs and opportunity, and is a top predictor of future poverty. Prior to the 1940-50s, the United States had one of the world’s greatest public transit networks. Public Transportation is a Human Rights and Civil Rights Issue! The destruction of our once great public transit systems has systematized racism and classism in this country.
How did the United States go from having the world’s leading public transit systems to severe transit Inequity? How does the steamrolling of the American Public building highways through the bedrooms and backyards of Black and brown communities starting in the 1950’s impact us still today?**
Access to Robust Public Transportation is a Civil Right!
Safe streets, a key component of Transit Equity Day, are integral to accessing public transit as well as ensuring that children can bike safely to school and that the most vulnerable members of the community, including elderly and disabled, can walk and roll safely through our streets.
Transit Equity Week/Day is produced in Santa Cruz County by Equity Transit & organized nationally by Labor Network for Sustainability
Transit Equity Week is sponsored by the organizations below – This list may be updated (Organizations with an * will have a booth at the Feb 4th Watsonville Family Fair event)