The DC Transportation Equity Network (DC TEN) is a cross-sector coalition of organizations committed to seeing a complete transportation system that ensures vulnerable residents are accounted for in the District of Columbia. We advocate for transportation policies that rectify historic disparities in access to jobs, schools, health care, recreation, and other destinations, and expand opportunity for those pushed to the margins in a thriving city.
People with low incomes, people of color, the elderly, and people with disabilities are hit hardest by a misallocation of public goods which has favored personal automobiles over all other transportation modes. Metrics, budgets, and infrastructure have continued to exacerbate these historic inequities. The DC TEN advocates for policies that seek to correct this imbalance.
The DC TEN is a program of Greater Greater Washington.
Founded in 2020 by a group of direct-service, labor, and advocacy organizations, the DC Transportation Equity Network (DC TEN) was created to uplift the voices of people living in poverty, people of color, older adults, and people with disabilities to help rectify the damaging effects of destructive transportation policies that disconnected communities from one another by prioritizing cars over all other modeshares. Founding organizations included:
- Community Connections
- DC Central Kitchen
- DC Education Coalition for Change
- DC Families for Safe Streets
- DC Primary Care Association (DCPCA)
- House of Ruth
- ONE DC
- SMYAL
- So Others Might Eat (SOME)
- UNITE HERE Local 25
- Washington Area Bicyclist Association (WABA)
- Washington Interfaith Network
- Greater Greater Washington
