Sixty percent of all public transit riders are people of color. These disparities are largely due to the fact that U.S. transportation policy and investment have historically favored middle-class and affluent neighborhoods at the expense of low-income communities and communities of color.

Today we got a first look at the draft legislation to reauthorize our federal transportation programs. And it's great news for our transportation infrastructure nationwide.

From where I sit, trying to make this little movie, Grassroots -- real change seems to come only from the bottom. Don't recent events make it sadly too clear what "change" from the top looks like?

A Republican with a consistently bad record on environmental issues has just been nominated to run the Department of Transportation.