BOSTON — The Massachusetts State Senate voted Thursday to pass legislation that aims to create safer streets for all road users. Developed in collaboration with a coalition of bicycle, pedestrian and transportation advocates, S.2570, An Act to reduce traffic fatalities, includes several measures to improve road safety, lessen the severity of crashes, and standardize the collection and analysis of …
June 25, 2018 Secretary Stephanie Pollack Massachusetts Department of Transportation 10 Park Plaza Boston, MA 02116 Dear Secretary Pollack: Thank you for resuming meetings of the I90 Allston Task Force. The dialogue and collaboration that we look forward to having with MassDOT and the MBTA will be an important step in this project towards achieving …
MassINC/Commonwealth: “For walkers, the last six inches are important” By Wendy Landman and Brendan Kearney WalkBoston has been talking about transit as the middle leg of a walking trip for many years. We understand that even the most avid walker or walking advocate knows that many trips are too long to make a single-mode-walk trip …
Bloomberg Radio: “Bloomberg Baystate Business: Self-Driving Cars” We also talked about self-driving cars in the wake of the decision to allow Nutonomy to test its cars throughout the city of Boston. Nutonomy President Karl Iagnemma joined us to give us the details. We also spoke with MIT research scientist Bryan Reimer about the technology. Taking …
Boston Herald: “Imperfect technology, Boston’s ‘chaotic’ streets raise fears of self-driving cars” By Mary Markos But keeping them vigilant is another concern, raised by Wendy Landman, executive director of WalkBoston. “Generally speaking, when you have people in the vehicles who don’t have much to do except watch out for possible problems, you need to make …