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Bridging the Gap between Mobility Haves and Have-Nots

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Three Revolutions

Abstract

Grace is a single mom with two kids living in Koreatown in Los Angeles. High housing costs have put car ownership out of reach for Grace, so she regularly suffers through a long, complicated morning and afternoon travel grind. Each weekday, she rises at 5:30 a.m. to dress and feed her children and walk them four blocks to her cousin Lydia’s apartment; Lydia then walks Grace’s daughter to daycare and her son to elementary school while Grace makes a seventy-five-minute, two-bus trek from Koreatown to her job as a teacher’s aide in Westchester. The trip home in the afternoon is just as lengthy and complex, and Grace struggles to get dinner on the table for her children by 7:00 p.m. each evening.

The three revolutions collectively offer considerable promise to increase mobility for the poor, the elderly, people with disabilities, youth, and other historically disadvantaged communities, but policies are necessary to ensure this hoped-for outcome.

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Brown, A., Taylor, B.D. (2018). Bridging the Gap between Mobility Haves and Have-Nots. In: Sperling, D. (eds) Three Revolutions. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-906-7_6

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