Women in Transit: Organizing for Social Justice in our Communities - A Project of the Bus Riders Union (2nd Ed.)

Results of a participatory action research project (Women in Transit) carried out by the Bus Riders Union. Workshops, interviews, community meetings and a literature review were conducted in order to illuminate women's need for public transit and the barriers and inequalities they face in accessing it. The research report recommends the implementation of a more democratic process for Translink planning; the planning of transportation routes and schedules in ways that meet the needs of women, Aboriginal people, and people of colour; recognition that public transit planning is in fact public health planning and an issue of environmental justice; and keeping the system "public" and fares affordable.