June 8, 2015 Patrick Hoey, Transportation Planner Boston Transportation Department Room 721 Boston City Hall Boston, MA 02201-2021 Dear Mr. Hoey, WalkBoston is pleased that the Boston Transportation Department (BTD) conducted a public meeting that provided an opportunity for area residents and others to comment on the re-design of Melnea Cass Boulevard (MCB). WalkBoston is …
June 2, 2015 Mary Ainsley MBTA Design & Construction Department GLX Project office 100 Summer Street Cc: Karen Arpino Shaffer, Michael McBride HDR Gilbane Dear Ms. Ainsley, We are writing you to express thanks and concern about the Community Path Extension Project and one of its design elements. First, thank you very much for your …
June 2, 2015 Secretary Anthony Foxx U.S Department of Transportation 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE Washington, DC 20590 Re: Support for TIGER VII Application, Union Square Multimodal Improvement Project Dear Secretary Foxx, On behalf of WalkBoston, I am writing to express support for the City of Somerville’s TIGER VII grant application to help fund the …
On May 6, 2015, WalkBoston participated in a walk audit on the Salem State University (SSU) campus around the O’Keefe Center and the edges of North Campus. John Pelletier, Mass in Motion Coordinator for the City of Salem, led the audit and the participants included SSU staff, neighborhood advocates, city staff and city council members. …
The Boston Herald article “Shattuck: Marty Walsh, IndyCar dare us to think fast” (5/22/2015) had one excellent quote, challenging Boston “To make progress on our roads, like they do in other first-world nations.” Here are three examples of progress on roads in other first-world nations. Sweden: http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/02/economist-explains-16 “With only three of every 100,000 Swedes dying on the roads …