Thanks to everyone who took part in our North Shore Walk Audit Academy training seminar on January 25, 2025! We’re so glad you joined us to learn about improving walkability and creating safer, more accessible communities. A special thank-you to Gentile Brewing for hosting us and to our convening partner, the Beverly Bicycle and Pedestrian …
This post has been updated on 1/21/25 with the tentative route. Please RSVP at bottom of page! Join WalkMassachusetts this winter to learn how to lead a walk audit with a North Shore Walk Audit Academy program! We’ll start things off with a walk audit training at 10am on January 25, 2025 in Beverly, MA, …
On Tuesday, August 6, WalkMass and GreenRoots co-hosted a walk through East Boston, joining Caminatas Verdes (“Green Walks”), a group of local residents. This was our first-ever bilingual community walk, and an opportunity to highlight a partnership with GreenRoots made possible by a grant from Boston Children’s Hospital.
Throughout the year, we post about the fatal crashes in Massachusetts from a previous month, and share any trends that we see. For the full list of monthly posts, head here. In our previous post, we took a look at crashes listed in the MassDOT Crash Portal in February; seven were identified as people walking. …
How Can Spatial Thinking Help in Advocating for Pedestrians? Speaker: Professor Sumeeta Srinivasan, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University, WalkMassachusetts Board Member Yesterday, Professor Sumeeta Srinivasan spoke about how GIS, or Geographic Information Systems, includes analytic tools that help make maps and conduct spatial analysis. In …