On April 15 and April 29, 2021, WalkBoston and MassINC conducted a virtual walk assessment with community members in the downtown Brockton area as part of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s Mass in Motion grant program, with support from the Solomon Foundation. The two main goals of the Gateway Cities walk audit project are …
While the text is pasted below, we recommend clicking here to view this letter as the full PDF – images and tables were embedded in letter which did not render properly below. March 31, 2021 Secretary Kathleen A. Theoharides Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs Attn: MEPA-regs@mass.gov Dear Secretary Theoharides: WalkBoston appreciates the opportunity …
Each month in 2021, we plan to post about the fatal crashes in Massachusetts from the previous month, and share any trends that we see. Last month, we took a look at the 4 fatal crashes listed in the MassDOT Crash Portal in February. In this post, we’ll look at crashes in MA in March 2021. The …
MassDOT has announced a new round of funding for its successful Shared Streets and Spaces Grant Program, which WalkBoston awarded with a Golden Shoe earlier this year. As in previous rounds, the Shared Streets and Spaces grant program supports municipalities and transit authorities to improve plazas, sidewalks, curbs, streets, bus stops, parking areas and other …
April 27, 2021 On April 26th, the Baker Administration announced a wide-ranging road safety bill, “An Act Relative to Improving Safety on the Roads of the Commonwealth.” The Massachusetts Vision Zero Coalition had no prior knowledge of this omnibus bill, nor did we have any direct engagement with the administration around its current formation and …