Equity in the Capital: Kacey Lizon and Kendra Macias Reed on transportation equity and what it takes to get from point A to everywhere else

By Nick Brunner | Solving Sacramento Kendra Macias Reed is the deputy director with the Franklin Neighborhood Development Corporation (Photo courtesy Kendra Macias Reed) We can see how Sacramento gets to work. We get to school, we get to the grocery store, or conversely, we have the groceries get to us, and on and on and on, innumerable examples. Ubiquitous doesn’t begin to describe the need for transportation in this country, in this region. While there’s no shortage of options on how we get from point A to everywhere else, access and opportunity can vary wildly, depending on where you live. That’s why we brought together Kacey Lizon, deputy executive director of planning and programs for the Sacramento Area Council of Governments, and Kendra Macias Reed, deputy director with the Franklin Neighborhood Development Corporation. Lizon: You don’t have to go back very far in our society’s history —& maybe a couple generations — to see how the way that our country has grown has not been with the goal of helping and accommodating everyone. The automobile was invented, it was an amazing thing. … That’s been great in a lot of ways. But there were also intentional policies, at the...