Betsy Johnson, a Springfield resident and WalkBike Springfield co-founder, is WalkBoston’s new Board President. Betsy brings a passion for extending WalkBoston’s reach to more cities and towns across the Commonwealth. As a former Boston South End resident and neighbor to WalkBoston founder Ann Hershfang, she is well experienced in advocating for walkable streets and applies …
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, towns and cities have successfully been repurposing street space to make room for safer mobility with the help of state and private funding streams. WalkBoston partnered with the Solomon Foundation team on outreach for their Streets for Recovery funding opportunity to encourage shared streets strategies that would serve …
This month, WalkBoston kicked off our five-year Hilltowns Walkability and Healthy Aging project in partnership with the Hilltowns Community Development Corporation and Northampton’s Collaborative for Educational Services. This project is funded through the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s Healthy Aging Fund and aims to make built environment and policy changes that will make walking safer …
In January 2020, Boston’s Public Works Department announced they would be taking a look at State Street in downtown Boston for major upgrades. This effort builds on previous planning projects and initiatives that the City of Boston has rolled out over the last few years: GoBoston 2030, Vision Zero, Complete Streets guidelines, and Connect Historic …
BY ALTHEA WONG-ACHORN / DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR When November comes around in New England, even when we aren’t in the midst of a pandemic, our instinct is to hibernate until the springtime when the weather thaws. But last November, WalkBoston created a way to keep us moving, motivated, and connected. Beat the Bay State (BTBS), a …