Transit Equity Day is Feb. 4, Rosa Parks’ birthday, the brave civil rights icon who wouldn’t give up her bus seat.

Feb. 4 was the birthdate of Rosa Parks, the Black woman who in 1955 was told to give up her bus seat for a White person and refused. I like to take transit and consider it a bargain.

Passengers on Feb. 6 wait to board the 6:40 p.m. Metrolink train east from Union Station in Los Angeles toward San Bernardino. It was Transit Equity Day, in which rides on public transit were free.

Tuesday was Transit Equity Day, when rides on public transit around Southern California were free. Why? Feb. 4 was the birthdate of Rosa Parks, the Black woman who in 1955 was told to give up her bus ...

TheRide, a transportation service in the Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti area, honored Rosa Parks by reserving a seat for her on each of its buses on Transit Equity Day on Feb. 4, 2025.

Students from Ascot Avenue Elementary School in South L.A. were invited to L.A. Union Station to celebrate Transit Equity Day, and ride an L.A. Metro Rosa Parks-era style bus, on Friday, Feb. 2 ...

It’s Transit Equity Day and the Ann Arbor Area Transportation Authority, known as TheRide, is honoring civil rights icon Rosa Parks by reserving a seat for her on each of its buses.

A celebration of public transit is held on Feb. 4, to honor the birthday of pioneering civil rights leader Rosa Parks. The mood among transit officials should be upbeat. But it's not.

Parks was born on Feb. 4, 1913. Federal transportation officials in 2021 established Transit Equity Day to promote public transportation as a civil right essential for social inclusion and ...