Author: WalkMassachusetts

#WBSignTest comes to an end

#WBSignTest comes to an end

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Thank you to the staff members from the Downtown Boston BID for removing our faded wayfinding decal from the top of Pi Alley today. We installed this as a prototype in June 2016, and gathered feedback from people walking by through email and social media using the Twitter hashtag #WBSignTest. This lasted much longer than we expected: it had a good run!

MassDOT celebrating 15 years of the Zakim Bridge with light show

MassDOT celebrating 15 years of the Zakim Bridge with light show

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Tonight, Sept. 21st, at 8:30pm swing by North Point Park in Cambridge or Nashua Street Park in Boston to check out the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge light show in celebration of its 15th year anniversary.  Thanks to Rosales + Partners for organizing the festivities and MassDOT for the lighting demonstration! Read more

Thanks for coming on our walk last week!

Thanks for coming on our walk last week!

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Thanks to everyone who came for the Charles River “Throat” Site Walk and to hear WalkBoston, the Charles River Esplanade Association, The Charles River Conservancy, Charles River Watershed Association talk about the importance of this section of the pathway and riverbank. The next Task Force Meeting is Wednesday, September 26th.
More photos on Facebook, and additional info on the Allston I-90 Interchange Project and UnchokeTheThroat page.

MassDOT’s Statewide Pedestrian Plan now available for public comment!

MassDOT’s Statewide Pedestrian Plan now available for public comment!

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MassDOT’s Statewide Pedestrian Transportation Plan will recommend policies, programs, and projects for MassDOT to guide decision making and capital investments, as well as develop guidance for municipalities to improve walkability in local communities.

Thursday, September 20 from 1 to 3 pm, the scheduled Massachusetts Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Board (MABPAB) meeting will be a special open-house style forum highlighting the finalized draft Statewide Pedestrian Transportation Plan. The event will take place in the second floor Transportation Board Room of MassDOT’s Boston headquarters at 10 Park Plaza. Released for a 30 day public review on Monday, September 17, MassDOT is welcoming MABPAB board members as well as the general public to attend, learn more about the Plan and provide comments to the final draft.

The Plan defines a vision for Massachusetts in which all people have a safe and comfortable walking option for short trips. The Plan presents an action-oriented strategy with the goal of increasing the percentage of short trips made by walking and also eliminating pedestrian fatalities and serious injuries. Pedestrian fatalities have been increasing over the last decade in Massachusetts. The plan goes into further detail about the state of walking today.

Take a look at the plan, and let us know what you think; make sure to send your comments to MassDOT!

Cambridge Day – “Inman Square redesign gets 7-2 council vote, promises of help for affected small businesses”

Cambridge Day – “Inman Square redesign gets 7-2 council vote, promises of help for affected small businesses”

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Cambridge Day: “Inman Square redesign gets 7-2 council vote, promises of help for affected small businesses”

The redesign process began with a council order in June 2014, sparking at least the fourth intensive look at a redesign since 1994 for a square long considered confusing and dangerous for pedestrians, bicyclists and drivers. The process gained urgency and attention with the death of bicyclist Amanda Phillips in June 2016, but drew opposition for its plan to shrink the square’s Vellucci Plaza on one side of Hampshire Street so a giant, traffic-bending bump-out could be added on the other side – essentially turning the peculiarly elongated and complex square into two intersections.

Inman Square has been the site of five pedestrian crashes, 10 bicycles crashes (including that of Phillips) and 50 vehicle crashes in just the past three years, according to WalkBoston, a nonprofit founded in 1990 that has worked with Cambridge in Inman Square since 2014.

Posted September 18, 2018