MTS Social Equity Listening Tour

Pueblo facilitated the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System’s (MTS) Social Equity Listening Tour, a public engagement effort that aimed to understand the experiences of transit riders and address issues of inequity in transit. The project was designed to identify local community members’ top transit priorities and challenges resulting from inequities in transit service, operations, amenities, and programs. Pueblo facilitated fifteen storytelling workshops (both virtual and in-person) and throughout the MTS service area and partnered with five community-based organizations (CBOs) to intentionally engage with communities that are most dependent on transit and most burdened by inequitable planning decisions, including people with disabilities, low-wealth Black communities and communities of color, the elderly, youth, people who are unhoused or facing housing insecurity, immigrants, refugees, and binational migrants.