When Foreign Service Officer Sarah Debink Langenkamp returned to the U.S. after managing a $600 million program in Ukraine, she chose to ride her bike as often as she could—to enjoy the outdoors and live lightly on the planet. But riding home from her children’s school in Bethesda, Maryland, she was struck and killed by …
Walkable, connected neighborhoods were created not by chance but were built, brick by brick and bylaw by bylaw, through a century of deliberate land use decisions that determined not just where housing goes, but who gets to live there. During June’s WalkMassachusetts Network meeting, Boston Indicators Senior Fellow and housing and zoning expert Amy Dain …
Date of walk audit: May 27, 2026 Facilitators: Brendan Kearney, Iolando Spinola, Jonny Gomez-Pereira and Emma Itri What is it actually like to walk along High Street in Danvers? In late May, WalkMassachusetts and the Danvers Accessibility Commission led a climate‑focused walk audit on High Street / Route 62 near the Route 128 interchange. We selected …
These findings come from Fatal Pedestrian Crashes in Massachusetts 2025, WalkMassachusetts’ fifth annual report tracking pedestrian fatalities across the Commonwealth. The report draws from MassDOT crash data to examine where, when, and how these crashes occur, and where action is needed to make streets safer.
This testimony was shared at a Joint Committee of Transportation Hearing on May 28, 2026 as part of a panel with people that took part in the Micromobility Commission: (L to R) The Ride Cafe’s Kara Oberg, WalkMassachusetts executive director Brendan Kearney, MassBike executive director Galen Mook, and Beverly Police Chief Chief John G. LeLacheur. …