WalkBoston is thrilled that after many years of advocacy, planning and design – and five years of construction – the Longfellow Bridge is open to all users. People on foot, on bikes, on the Red Line and in vehicles are all in motion. We celebrate the comfortable sidewalks, the beautifully restored ironwork and stonework, and the elegant …
Cambridge Day: “Divisions made clear, Inman Square plan okayed by City Council to go to Legislature” By Marc Levy In the past three years, Inman Square has seen five pedestrian crashes, 10 bicycles crashes including Phillips’s death, and 50 vehicle crashes, said Wendy Landman, executive director of WalkBoston, a nonprofit founded in 1990 that has …
May 31, 2018 Secretary and MBTA CEO Stephanie Pollack Mass DOT Re: Realizing the Proposed Mystic River Crossing and Head House Connection to Assembly Orange Line Station Dear Secretary Pollack, The undersigned organizations strongly request that the Massachusetts Department of Transportation work with the Massachusetts Congressional Delegation to submit a BUILD application to fund the …
With Massachusetts’ booming economy, pedestrians encounter construction sites on streets large and small. WalkBoston recently led a lunch-n-learn at Commodore Builders, (a WalkBoston corporate supporter) focused on construction site management strategies that provide safe spaces for people to continue walking during construction. Key points: Maintain a safe path of ACCESSIBLE travel. Match the solution to the setting – if …
Last summer, WalkBoston was fortunate enough to receive a $100,000 grant from the Cummings Foundation to fund our work to train and empower residents to be change agents for safe streets. Earlier this month, we kicked things off with a Ped101 Training Session and neighborhood walk audit in Lowell with the Coalition for A Better Acre. We’re …