oinonio:New statistical analyses released today by a non-profit public transit advocacy group Ride N

oinonio:New statistical analyses released today by a non-profit public transit advocacy group Ride New Orleans show that only 36 percent of bus and transit services have been restored across the sprawling city even though more than 86 percent of the city’s population has returned, and the lost services are disproportionately concentrated in areas of the city with a larger proportion of low-income residents and lower proportions of white populations.In Hollygrove, the largely black, low-income neighborhood where the rapper Lil Wayne grew up, for instance, transit service has been reduced by 95 percent even though about 83 percent of residents have returned.Meanwhile in the Florida section of the 9th Ward, another largely black, low-income area hit hard by Katrina, transit service has been severed completely. Not even a single bus connects the isolated neighborhood to other parts of the city though 53 percent of the pre-storm population is back, according to 2013 data from the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center. X ”“New Orleans Transit System Disproportionately Serves Whiter and Wealthier Neighborhoods” -- source link

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