Why this project
The standard transit advocacy social-media post is a chart. Charts are useful and necessary. They are also forgettable.
What people remember is other people. This project sends us out to bus stops, light-rail-corridor neighborhoods, university campuses, casino back-of-house, and grocery store parking lots to talk to actual Las Vegans about how they get around — what’s broken, what works, and what would change their day. Some of those conversations become short interview clips. All of them inform the rest of our work.
Goals
- Publish a recurring series of interview clips — at least one per month
- Surface the lived experience of the Valley’s actual transit users to a public conversation that mostly ignores them
- Identify community members who want to be part of LVBT’s organizing work
Approach
- Keep crews small (1–2 people)
- Real consent, real on-camera releases
- Pay for interviewees’ time when feasible (a meal, transit fare, a small honorarium)
- Edit for clarity, not for gotcha