Gender and cycling: reconsidering the links through a reconstructive approach to Mexican history

Soliz, Aryana

doi:10.1080/17450101.2021.1939109

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“…Particularly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, which widened the income gap and led to an increase in women's household care responsibilities (55), greater attention is needed to how these dynamics affect women's access to leisure activities and other benefits associated with major public-transit investments. These inequities also underscore the need for transport planning to not only be gender responsive, but also work in alignment with calls for gender-transformative planning processes that support women and other underrepresented groups in challenging oppressive gender roles and inequities (23,(56)(57)(58). To design transport systems that include LRT and serve people with diverse gender identities, policy makers can target their efforts on specific subgroups and travel purposes where the gender gaps in intended LRT use are widest: younger individuals, non-immigrants, and for non-work travel purposes.…”

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“…Feminist research has revealed that men tend to travel at a faster pace (relying more on car travel) than do women, whose mobilities have often been restricted to slower speeds, especially when traveling with children ( 17 ). Because gender-differentiated roles place a higher burden on women for family-care activities ( 18 – 21 ), women’s mobilities tend to be much more complex, often encompassing multiple travel modes ( 17 , 22 , 23 ). Although women’s trips are often shorter than men’s ( 12 ), on average, women make significantly more trips ( 24 , 25 ), and engage in more non-work-related travel ( 24 ).…”

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Who Does Light Rail Serve? Examining Gendered Mobilities and Light-Rail Transit in Montreal, Canada

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Victoriano-Habit

Soliz

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Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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Investment in light-rail transit (LRT) has been one of the main strategies of large metropolitan areas in the last decade to tackle environmental, economic, and social issues. In Montreal, Canada, a C$7 billion LRT system is currently under construction and is expected to significantly affect mobility patterns across the metropolitan region. It is crucial to identify how the impacts of such large public investments vary across societal groups to assess whether the distribution of benefits is fair and equitable. Using data from an online survey and a binary logistic modeling approach, we investigated the ways in which intentions to use this new LRT system differ across gender identities. First, we found that women are less likely than men to have an intention to use LRT. Our modeling results show that there are statistically significant differences across gender identities in the effect of certain sociodemographic and travel-behavior characteristics that explain the intention to use the LRT system. In respect of trip purpose, while women and men intend to use LRT for work trips to the same extent, men intend to use LRT for leisure and discretionary travel more than women. Our findings can help in guiding further research into gender gaps in transport studies and inform practitioners on how gender can be considered in LRT policy decisions so that the benefits of major public-transit investments are more equitably distributed.

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Who Does Light Rail Serve? Examining Gendered Mobilities and Light-Rail Transit in Montreal, Canada

Villafuerte-Diaz

Victoriano-Habit

Soliz

et al. 2023

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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Scaling up active transportation across North America: A comparative content analysis of policies through a social equity framework

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Carvalho,

Sarmiento-Casas

et al. 2023

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

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Creating Sustainable Cities through Cycling Infrastructure? Learning from Insurgent Mobilities

Soliz

2021

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As policy makers grapple with rapid motorization processes, cycling facilities are gaining new urgency, offering non-polluting and affordable alternatives to automobility. At the same time, urban sustainability paradigms tend to focus on purely technical solutions to transportation challenges, leaving questions of history and social power aside. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork in Aguascalientes Mexico, this article contributes to the transportation and mobility justice literature by focusing on the work of social movements in confronting a variety of challenges in the provision of active-transportation services. First, this research explores how social movements express and negotiate transportation-justice concerns to government and planning authorities. Next, I build on the concept of insurgent citizenship to highlight the processes through which residents contest ongoing injustices and formulate alternatives for building inclusive cities. From the creation of makeshift cycling lanes in underserved urban areas to the search for socially just alternative to policing, social movements are forging new pathways to re-envision sustainable transportation systems. These insurgent forms of citymaking—understood here as insurgent mobilities—underscore the creative role of citizens in producing the city as well as the enormous amount of care work involved in these processes.

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Gender and cycling: reconsidering the links through a reconstructive approach to Mexican history

Cited by 3 publications

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Who Does Light Rail Serve? Examining Gendered Mobilities and Light-Rail Transit in Montreal, Canada

Who Does Light Rail Serve? Examining Gendered Mobilities and Light-Rail Transit in Montreal, Canada

Scaling up active transportation across North America: A comparative content analysis of policies through a social equity framework

Creating Sustainable Cities through Cycling Infrastructure? Learning from Insurgent Mobilities

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