Dear Secretary Beaton and Secretary Pollack, Thank you for this opportunity to comment on transportation sector strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve climate resiliency in our Commonwealth. WalkBoston believes that policies and programs that encourage equitable, compact, mixed-use transit oriented development and that drive mode shift from single occupancy vehicles to walking, biking …
WBUR: “Mobility Challenges In The Boston Snow” Navigating a city with snow on the ground is difficult enough as it is, but what about for mobility impaired residents? WalkBoston, a nonprofit that makes walking safer and easier in Massachusetts, produced a video about Amy Corcoran Hunt that draws attention to the mobility challenges that poor …
The center of East Cambridge retains much of its early residential character with a vital focus on the Middlesex County courts. The community is located within easy walking of neighboring areas where construction activity booms—Kendall Square with its new offices and North Point where high-rise residences face the Charles River. In 1810, the wealthy investor …
Cambridge: Traffic calming works! Neighborhoods in Cambridge are among the first in the metropolitan area to benefit from traffic calming. Installed after intensive meetings with residents, consultants and City staff, the new facilities slow traffic through handsome old neighborhoods, where narrow streets have been carrying major traffic flows. Traffic calming techniques have also been applied to …
From a high hill on the northern end of Deer Island, you can see dramatic views of Boston’s skyline to the west, Hull’s windmill to the southeast, the harbor’s 29 other islands, lighthouses near and far, and open sea all the way to Europe. At the southern end of the island is the $4 billion wastewater …