Transit Equity in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Study of Six Ontario Transit Authorities

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John B. Sutcliffe, Katrina Bahnam, Tartil Shaheen
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ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has created severe challenges for public transit systems. This article examines its impact on six Ontario transit systems. Using qualitative data from fourteen interviews with public transit officials and data from municipal documents and public announcements, the article examines whether measures introduced by the transit authorities addressed the issue of transit equity in the pandemic’s first year. The findings show that transit officials were aware of transit inequity—transit service cuts disproportionately affected the most vulnerable. Transit officials also raised issues relating to transit equity in their appeals to senior governments for more funding. It is, however, important not to overstate the prevalence of transit equity at this time. Transit officials and transit documents rarely used the term transit equity and there is limited evidence that considerations of procedural equity influenced decision-making in the period studied. Transit systems were forced to prioritize the maintenance of some level of reduced service during the pandemic with almost no capacity to introduce measures to advance transit equity.
面对COVID-19大流行的交通公平:对安大略省六个交通部门的研究
2019冠状病毒病大流行给公共交通系统带来了严峻挑战。本文考察了它对安大略省六个交通系统的影响。本文利用对14位公共交通官员的访谈得出的定性数据以及市政文件和公告中的数据,审查了交通当局在大流行的第一年采取的措施是否解决了交通公平问题。调查结果表明,公共交通官员意识到了公共交通的不平等——公共交通服务的削减对最弱势群体的影响不成比例。交通官员在向政府高层呼吁提供更多资金时,也提出了与交通公平有关的问题。然而,重要的是不要在这个时候夸大过境公平的普遍性。过境官员和过境文件很少使用过境公平一词,有有限证据表明,在研究期间,程序公平的考虑影响了决策。在大流行期间,运输系统被迫优先考虑维持某种程度上减少的服务,几乎没有能力采取措施促进过境公平。
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期刊介绍: American Nineteenth Century History is a peer-reviewed, transatlantic journal devoted to the history of the United States during the long nineteenth century. It welcomes contributions on themes and topics relating to America in this period: slavery, race and ethnicity, the Civil War and Reconstruction, military history, American nationalism, urban history, immigration and ethnicity, western history, the history of women, gender studies, African Americans and Native Americans, cultural studies and comparative pieces. In addition to articles based on original research, historiographical pieces, reassessments of historical controversies, and reappraisals of prominent events or individuals are welcome. Special issues devoted to a particular theme or topic will also be considered.
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