L.A.'s inconvenient truth about global warming and toxic air:

We must cut L.A.'s 7 million daily cars in half and build bus only lanes!

The Clean Air campaign is working to build an environmental justice movement of Black, Latino, Asian Pacific Islander and other working class communities fighting to reduce the toxic emissions of auto in Los Angeles and for our right to clean air.

Los Angeles serves a highly symbolic role as the "auto capital of the U.S.," as well as the region with the worst air quality in the nation. At the same time, working class communities of color, many of whom rely on public transit than private cars, bear the toxic brunt of decades of auto centered development. Our vision prioritizes the mobility needs of the poorest transit dependant communities, public health, and climate justice.

Our goal is to cut L.A.'s autos in half and build a world class, clean-fuel, bus-centered mass transit system whose backbone is a network of bus-only lanes on over 1,000 miles of L.A.'s freeways and major streets. Converting a region that dedicates over 2/3 of their land for cars will take a major shift of existing local, state, and federal transportation resources and implementing policies like auto-free zones, bus-lanes, pedestrian and bikeways that take space away from the auto.

We believe winning policies to restrict auto and expanding affordable clean bus-centered transit in L.A. could have a ripple effect across the state and nation.