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WalkMassachusetts Announces New Executive Directors Althea Wong-Achorn, Brendan Kearney

By WalkMassachusetts | August 2, 2023

The new leadership, an expanded Board, and a rebrand to WalkMassachusetts, previously WalkBoston, reflect an organizational vision to make walking safer and easier statewide. BOSTON (August 2, 2023) – WalkMassachusetts, a statewide pedestrian advocacy organization, today announced Althea Wong-Achorn and Brendan Kearney as the organization’s Executive Directors. The announcement comes on the heels of WalkBoston …

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Full-Time Position Available: Development & Communications Coordinator

By WalkBoston | July 30, 2023

WalkMassachusetts seeks a self-motivated, detail-oriented, full-time Development and Communications Coordinator with experience in development (fundraising) activities, communications, and office management. The Development and Communications Coordinator would support the Co-Executive Directors, the Development Committee, and the Communications Committee, and play a key role in ensuring that the WalkMassachusetts team and office functions efficiently and effectively. Job …

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Roosevelt Ave Walk Audit in Springfield

By WalkMassachusetts | July 26, 2023

On Thursday July 20th, WalkMassachusetts joined WalkBike Springfield, Wayfinders, Mass in Motion Springfield, and local residents to complete a Walk Audit of Roosevelt Avenue. After a round of introductions, the group left from Springfield High School of Science & Technology (SciTech), and continued down Roosevelt before turning back at the Wilbraham Rd intersection. This walk …

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Statewide Fatal Crashes in MA, June 2023

By WalkMassachusetts | July 21, 2023

Each month, we post about the fatal crashes in Massachusetts from the previous month, and share any trends that we see. For the full list of monthly posts, head here. Last month, we took a look at crashes listed in the MassDOT Crash Portal in May; six were identified as people walking. In this post, we’ll look …

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July 2023 Network Meeting – “Walk the Talk: Understanding Pedestrian Behavior & Creating Analytic Tools to Aid Planning & Policy” Recording

By WalkMassachusetts | July 20, 2023

Rounaq Basu is the Manager of Multimodal Planning and Design at the Boston Region MPO, as well as a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT joined us for this month’s WalkMassachusetts Network discussion. Rounaq shared research on many of the questions he’s been studying: Why do pedestrians choose one route over others? Which street attributes are considered attractive …

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